16. A gene is a biological unit of information who directs the activity of a cell or organism during its lifetime.

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17. The flowering of African American talent in literature, music, and art in the 1920’s in New York City became to know as the Harlem Renaissance.
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18. The symptoms of pneumonia, a lung infection, include high fever, chest pain, breathing difficult, and coughing.
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19. The rapid grow of Boston during the mid-nineteenth century coincided with a large influx of European immigrants.
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20. In 1908 Olive Campbell started writing down folk songs by rural people in the southern Appalachian Mountains near hers home.
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21. The thirteen stripes of the United States flag represent the original thirteen states of the Union, which all were once colonies of Britain.
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22. In 1860, more as 90 percent of the people of Indiana lived in rural areas, with only a few cities having a population exceeding 10,000.
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23. Gravitation keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth and the planets other of the solar system in orbit around the Sun.
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24. Photograph was revolutionized in 1831 by the introduction of the collodion process for making glass negatives.
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25. After flax is washed, dry, beaten, and combed, fibers are obtained for use in making fabric.
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26. A fever is caused which blood cells release proteins called pyrogens, raising the body’s temperature.
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27. Because of various gift-giving holidays, most stores clothing in the United Sates do almost as much business in November and December as they do in the other ten months combined.
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28. The United States National Labor Relations Board is authorized to investigation allegations of unfair labor practices on the part of either employers or employees.
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29. The Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1840’s caused an unprecedented numbers of people from Ireland to immigrate to the United States.
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30. The particles comprising a given cloud are continually changing, as new ones are added while others are taking away by moving air.
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31. Political parties in the United States help to coordinate the campaigns of their members and organizes the statewide and national conventions that mark election years.
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32. The lemur is an unusual animal belonging to the same order than mon’s and apes.
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33. With environmental regulation tightening, many of California’s top wine makers are starting grow grapes organically, using no herbicides or pesticides.
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34. The carbon-are lamp, a very bright electric lamp used for spotlights, consists of two carbon electrodes with a high-current arc passing between it.
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35. At first the poems of E.E. Cummings gained notoriety to their idiosyncratic punctuation and typography, but they have gradually been recognized for their lyric power as well.
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36. The mechanism of human thought and recall, a subject only partly understood by scientists, is extraordinary complicated.
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37. While the process of photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and organic compounds.
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38. The globe artichoke was known as a delicacy at least 2,500 years ago, and records of its cultivation date from fifteenth century.
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39. Humans do not constitute the only species endowed with intelligence: the higher animals also have considerably problem-solving abilities.
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40. Many of species of milkweed are among the most dangerous of poisonous plants, while others have little, if any, toxicity.
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