Science Quiz #219
Science and Nature Quiz for 27 March 2013
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Q1.
What name is given to a neuron which fires both when an animal performs an action and when the animal observes the same action performed by another animal, as though the observer were performing the action?
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Q2.
How heavy is a megagram?
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Q3.
Iron is the main component of which of these?
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Q4.
What is a "briard"?
Note: This question was updated in July 2021
B
Moth of the Noctuidae family
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Q5.
Why was Dolly, the sheep cloned in 1996, so named?
B
She was small and dainty
C
That was the name of the lead scientist's wife
D
From the acronym for DNA Open Learning Institute which co-sponsored the work
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Q6.
The young female animal called a filly is what type of animal?
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Q7.
What type of rock is formed by the solidification of molten magma?
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