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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What are the 4 major macromolecules?	Carbohydrates	55%
	Proteins	54%
What is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it?	Hypothesis	53%
	Lipids	53%
What is the variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable?	Dependent Variable	47%
How many countries are there in the world?	196	45%
What is the variable that is deliberately changed?	Independent Variable	44%
What two men came up with the DNA double-helix model in 1953?	Watson and Crick	42%
What changes the rate of a chemical reaction?	Enzyme	37%
What is the act of noticing and describing events of processes in a careful, orderly way?	Observation	36%
	Nucleic Acids	34%
What are the 3 types of symbiosis?	Mutualism	30%
	Parasitism	30%
What process adds water to a Peptide Bond to form 2 amino acids?	Hydrolysis	28%
	Commensalism	25%
Which man has had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) for 50 years?	Stephen Hawking	23%
What is the process in which molecules that cannot directly diffuse across the membrane pass through special protein channels?	Facilitated Diffusion	19%
What 2 lakes border Wisconsin?	Lake Michigan	17%
	Lake Superior	16%
	Law of Independent Assortment	16%
	Law of Segregation	16%
What is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world?	Science	14%
How many gallons of water can you fit in a whale stomach?	200	12%
What are Mendel's 3 laws?	Law of Dominance	10%
What enzyme is required for transcription that bands to DNA and separates its strands?	RNA polymerase	8%
What is the accumulation of pollutants in organisms as you move up the food chain?	Biomagnification	7%
What is the highest navigable lake in the world?	Lake Titicaca	6%
What is a factor that controls the growth of a population?	Limiting Factor	6%
What are the chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life?	Nutrients	5%
How many cones are in the human eye?	7 million	2%