Science Quiz #359
Science and Nature Quiz for 2 December 2015
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Q1.
Besides crosswords, where is the only place that you could see an emu in its native environment?
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Q2.
Which of these branches of zoology is to do with the study of animal behaviour?
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Q3.
Modern versions of which appliance (commonplace by the 1970s in domestic residences in the USA) are descended from the 1886 invention of Josephine Cochrane which she unveiled at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?
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Q4.
What is the biological term for T H Huxley's theory that all living cells and organisms orginate from pre-existing living matter, not as the result of spontaneous generation?
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Q5.
What is the staple food of a Gelada baboon?
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Grass and other vegetable matter
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Q6.
hat is the name for something which lives in salt water, and also for something which lives in mountain soil?
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Q7.
Which of these is a disease associated with the absence of nicotinic acid in the diet, characterised by dermatitis, mild diarrhea and delirium?
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