Science Quiz #312
Science and Nature Quiz for 7 January 2015
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Q1.
The Human Genome Project, which operated from 1990-2003, aimed to examine and make publicly available the sequences of almost all the genetic content of the chromosomes of the human organism, to improve identifying technologies, and address what related aspect?
B
Applications in medicine
C
To make a map of the genome which could be carried in space travel
D
Ethical, legal, and social implications from defining the entire human genomic sequence
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Q2.
Which of these is a vegetable, one of the oldest?
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Q3.
In 1854, John Snow proved that what was transmitted by infected water?
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Q4.
Which of these is a fruit?
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Q5.
Hertz is the standard SI unit for the measurement of what?
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Q6.
Which inert gas with a density 2.8 that of air was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1895?
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Q7.
When was the spacecraft Rosetta launched to make contact with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P)?
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