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Trivia Questions

These in the skies of Albuquerque on October 3, 1999 were a fine example of Charles' Law in action

A free-falling body accelerates at a rate of about 1 g, g coming from this word

The 5-kingdom system is made up of animals, bacteria, plants, protists & these

It's defined as a change in the hereditary material of an organism's cells

This French chemist presented his germ theory of fermentation in an 1857 paper, "On Lactic Fermentation"

In a bird's egg, it's contained within the vitelline membrane

From the Greek for "green leaf", it's the green pigment in plants

The Drosophilidae family of this insect is used extensively in genetics because of its short, 10-day life cycle

In 1895 Aleksandr Popov & this Italian separately came up with the antenna to improve radio reception

While trying to create these precious stones in a lab, Edward Acheson came up with carborundum