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Trivia Questions

Depending on who benefits, this relationship can be classified as mutualism or as parasitism

Selman A. Waksman, discoverer of streptomycin, coined this term in the 1940s

It's the branch of biology that specifically studies sometimes harmful one-celled organisms

As opposed to spontaneous generation, it's the theory that life originates only from living organisms

This layer of fat helps maintain a whale's body temperature at 93-99 F., & that's nothing to cry over

When you "make a muscle" in your arm, you contract this 2-headed muscle

It's secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder & released into the duodenum after eating

In 1970 David Baltimore proved that this nucleic acid could transmit information to DNA

In plants & invertebrates, this outermost layer of protection is usually just one cell thick

It's any tissue that contracts & relaxes, causing movement of the limbs & other body parts