chapter 26 part 1 extras Flashcards

1
Q

the space age began on oct 4,1957, when the soviet union launched ______ the world’s first space satellite into orbit

A

Sputnik

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soviet Cosmonaut__________ became the first person to orbit earth and ______ became the first american to travel in space

A

Yury Gagarin

Alan Shepard

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3
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in 1981; the U.S. launched _______ its first space shuttle

A

Colombia

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4
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the worldwide _______ epidemic began in the early 1980s

A

AIDS

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5
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in 2001, an international team called the _________ mapped the chemical structure of DNA

A

human Genome project

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6
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______ is the process of making a genetically identical copy of an animal’s cell

A

cloning

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