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What is biology?

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The scientific study of life and encompasses a wide scale of size and a huge variety of life, both past and present.

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What are we living in?

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A golden age of biology

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What are Scientist Studying?

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A myriad of questions that are relevant to our lives

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Biologist explore life at levels ranging from the….

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biosphere to the molecules that make up cells

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In an ecosystem..

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Each organism interacts continuously with its environment, both living and NON living factors

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What do the dynamics of an ecosystem depend on?

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The cycling of chemical nutrients and flow of energy

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Nutrients…. energy….

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Nutrients Recycle, Energy Flows.

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The cell is at the level…

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At which properties of life emerge

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What is the lowest level of structure that can perform all activities required for life?

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A cell

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All organisms are composed of…

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CELLS

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All cells are enclosed by a…

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Membrane that regulates the passage of materials between the cell and its surroundings and uses DNA as
its genetic information.

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Cells are the…

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Subunits that make up multicellular organisms such as humans and trees

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What are two main types of cells?

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Prokaryotic, and Eukaryotic cells

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The prokaryotic cell is…

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Simpler and usually smaller and characteristic of bacteria

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The Eukaryotic cells are…..

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Subdivided by internal membranes into different functional compartments called organelles (found in plants and animals)

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All cells use _________ as the chemical material of ___________

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DNA, GENES

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What are genes?

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The units of inheritance that transmit information from parents to offspring

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The chemical Language of DNA is common to_______

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All Organisms

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The chemical language of DNA consists of _______ Molecular building blocks

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FOUR

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The names of chemical language is abbreviated with

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A, G, C, T.

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_________________ Has transformed the pharmaceutical industry and extended millions of lives

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Genetic engineering

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What is a genome?

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The entire “book” of genetic instructions that an organism inherits

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The nucleus of each human cell packs a genome that is about….

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3 billion chemical letters long

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Diversity is….

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The hallmark of life

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How many species does the diversity of known life include?

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1.8 Million species

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The total number of species range between...

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10 Million to over 100 million

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Biodiversity can be...

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Beautiful yet overwhelming

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What helps keep biodiversity from being overwhelming?

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Categorizing life into groups

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What is taxonomy?

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The branch of biology that names and classifies species

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What does taxonomy do?

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It formalizes the hierarchical order of organisms into broader and broader groups

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What are the three domains of life?

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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What kind of cells does Bacteria and Archaea have?

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Prokaryotic cells

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Protists are _____ celled

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Single

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What kind of cells does Eukarya have?

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Eukaryotic cells

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What does Eukarya Include?

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Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Animalia, and Protists P,F,A,P

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Most plants, fungi and animals are____________

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Multicellular

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Protists are _________ Celled

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Single celled

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How are the three multicellalur kingdoms distinguished?

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By how they obtain food.

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How do plants produce their own sugars and food?

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Photosynthesis

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Fungi are _______, Digesting __________

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DECOMPOSERS, DEAD ANIMALS

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Animals obtain food by________

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EATING AND DIGESTING OTHER ORGANISMS

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Underlying the diversity of life is a___________

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STRIKING UNITY

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All life uses the genetic language of __________

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DNA

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Biological evolution accounts for this combination of __________

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UNITY AND DIVERSITY

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The history of life is a ______ of a constantly changing ________ and __________ document this history.

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The history of life is a saga of a constantly changing Earth billions of years old and fossils document this history.

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Each species is _____________ of a branching tree of life extending back in time through ________ more and more remote.

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Each species is one twig of a branching tree of life extending back in time through ancestral species more and more remote

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Species that are more similar, (brown bear, polar bear) ________________________

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Species that are more similar, (brown bear, polar bear) Share a more recent common ancestor.

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The evolutionary view of life came into focus in _______ when _____________ published On the Origin of Species by _________________

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The evolutionary view of life came into focus in (1859) when (Charles Darwin) published On the Origin of Species by (Means of Natural Selection)

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Species living today descended from a succession of ____________________ in what Darwin called __________________________ capturing the duality of life’s unity (descent) and diversity (modification)

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(ancestral species) i (“descent with modification,”)

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What is natural Selection?

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The mechanism for descent with modification

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Darwin was struck by the diversity of animals on______________

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Galápagos Islands

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What did Darwin think about adaptation to the environment and the origin of new species?

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That they are closely related.

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What happened as populations separated by a geographic barrier adapted to local environments?

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They became separate species.

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Darwin synthesized the theory of natural selection from two observations that were _______________________

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NEITHER PROFOUND OR ORIGINAL

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Darwins observation 1-

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OVERPRODUCTION AND COMPETITION

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Darwins observation 2-

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INDIVIDUAL VARIATION

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What did Darwin call unequal reproductive success?

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NATURAL SELECTION

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What is the product of natural selection?

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ADAPTATION

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What is natural selection the mechanism of?

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EVELOUTION

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What are two examples of Natural Selection as given in the text?

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a. Galápagos finches change beak size depending upon the size and shape of available seeds. b. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have evolved in response to the overuse of antibiotics

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What is artificial selection?

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The selective breeding of domesticated plants and animals by human.

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What publication of Darwins texts fueled an explosion of biological research?

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"The Origin of Species"

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What is so important about Evolution?

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Evolution is one of biology’s best demonstrated, most comprehensive, and longest-lasting theories

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What does Evolution unify the theme of?

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BIOLOGY

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What is the latin origin of the word "Science"

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TO KNOW

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What are the TWO MAIN scientific approaches?

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DISCOVERY SCIENCE, HYPOTHESIS -DRIVEN SCIENCE

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Science is ______________________________

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THE WAY OF KNOWING BASED ON INQURY

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Discovery science is mostly about _______________

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DESCRIBING NATURE

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Hypothesis driven science is mostly about ___________________

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EXPLAINING NATURE

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Discovery science seeks _________________________________-

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NATURAL CAUSES FIR NATURAL PHENOMENA WHICH LIMITS THE SCOPE TO THE STUDY OF STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES THAT WE CAN MEASURE OR SEE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY

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Discovery science requires observations that can be seen so it __________________

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DISTINGUISHES SCIENCE FROM BELIEF IN THE SUPERNATURAL AND DEMYSTIFIES NATURE

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What is the data of discovery science?

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VERIFIABLE OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF DATA (ENABLING US TO DESCRIBE LIFE FROM CELLS TO MOLECULES)

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Discovery science uses a process of inquiry called?

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THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

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What can most scientific investigations be described as?

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HYPOTHESIS DRIVEN SCIENCE

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A hypothesis is a __________________

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TENTATIVE ANSWER TO A QUESTION

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Do we use hypothesis in every day life???

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YESSS

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Once a hypothesis is formed an investigator can use _____________ to test it

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LOGIC

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After a hypothesis is formed it __________________

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IS TESTED BY AN EXPIRIMENT TO SEE IF IT THE RESULTS ARE AS PREDICTED

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How is a scientific theory different than a hypothesis?

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IT IS A MUCH BROADER SCOPE THAN A HYPOTHESIS

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How do theories become widely accepted in Science?

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THEY ARE SUPPORTED BY A LOT OF ACCUMULATED AND VARYING EVIDENCE.

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Are scientific theories the only way of "knowing nature"?

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NOOOOOOO

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What are three different examples of different reasonings for nature?

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SCIENCE, RELIGION AND ART.

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Scientist build on what __________________________-

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HAS BEEN LEARNED FROM EARLIER RESEARCH

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Who do scientists pay close attention to?

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Contemporary scientists working on the same problem.

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What two things characterize the scientific culture?

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COOPERATION AND COMPETITION

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Scientists check the conclusions of others by

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ATTEMPTING TO REPEAT EXPERIMENTS

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Scientists are generally__________________

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SKEPTICS

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What are the two key features that science has that distinguish it from other forms of iniquity?

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-DEPENDS ON VARIFIABLE OBSERVATIONS -AND REQUIRES THAT HYPOTHESIS ARE TESTABLE BY EXPERIMENTS THAT CAN BE REPEATED

Question 88

What is the example of how anti-biotic can evolve in our everyday lives

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take antibiotics--resistant drugs survive-they can multiply and create a new strain

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WHO is the highly capable and intelligent young woman within this course

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JEWEL WELLS