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| Why do we have to pee so much when we drink alcohol? |
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| Because alcohol interferes with hormones. especially anti-diuretic hormone which causes the collecting duct to be less porous. This means less water is leaving the urine and entering the medulla. This is also why we get dehydrated and get a hangover. |
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| animals with a very long loop of henle probably live in a _____ environment. |
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| animals with a very short loop of henle probably live in a _____ environment. |
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| Louis Pasteur's swan flask experiment took place in... |
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| What did the swan flask experiment prove? |
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| That living things did not spontaneously come into existence, they had to come from some other thing. |
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| What did people think prior to the swan flask experiment? |
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| Spontaneous generation. Organisms would just arise spontaneously. |
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| Lazzaro Spallanzani showed.... |
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| That bacteria would be killed when boiled, and if sealed off from the air would not grow back. |
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| What was Pasteur's swan-neck flask designed to do? |
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| allow sterile liquid to be exposed to the air, but not allow outside particles like dust and air get past the curve in the flasks neck. |
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| Louis Pasteur filled a swan-neck flask with broth and it did not get contaminated with bacteria, what did this disprove? |
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| The theory of spontaneous generation. Air has not vital principle. |
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| What did the blender experiment prove? |
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| That the genetic information is stored in the DNA and that DNA from Bacteriophage viruses are incorporated into the genome. |
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| What did the Miller-Urey experiment set out to do? |
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| Recreate the conditions on earth at the beginning. |
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| what is the pilomotor reflex? |
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| goosebumps when animals get cold or see a predator that cause the hair to stand up. |
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| what is the nictitating membrane? |
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| a vestigial structure - a third and fourth eyelid. |
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