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Maths, sciences Flashcards

1
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Which family do hammerhead sharks belong to?

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Sphyrnidae

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Which genus are bottlenose dolphins?

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Tursiops

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Which form of collagen is obtained from swim bladders and used in clarification of beers and wines?

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Isinglass

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What is the name of the substance, formed from chymosin and other enzymes, that is obtained from the abomasum of ruminants?

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Rennet

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5
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Which fish of the genus Gadus has three main species: the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Greenland?

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Cod

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The European, the American, the Alaskan and the Scale-Eye are the four species of which type of flat fish, belonging to the family of right-eye flounders?

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Plaice

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Which ten-letter word, meaning ‘something done in return’, is used in maths to denote a fraction formed from another fraction by switching the numerator and the denominator?

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Reciprocal

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Cis-trans isomerism is also known as configurational isomerism, or by what name referring to a branch of mathematics?

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Geometric isomerism

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Electromagnetic induction was discovered in 1831 by which British scientist, whose namesake law is also known as the Law of Induction?

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Michael Faraday

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In materials science, which process heats a material above its recrystallisation temperature, holding for a certain time and then cooling to room temperature, to improve ductility and reduce brittleness and/or internal stress?

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Annealing

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A carbonyl functional group consists of a carbon atom double-bonded to an atom of which other element?

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Oxygen

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Independently of Michael Faraday, electromagnetic induction was also discovered in 1832 by which American scientist and namesake of an SI unit?

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Joseph Henry

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A cyanide ion consists of a carbon atom triple-bonded to an atom of which other element?

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Nitrogen

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Sometimes also known as frittage, which process in materials science applies heat or pressure to small particls of a materical, but keeps them below the melting point, to compact and fuse them together into a solid mass without liquefying?

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Sintering

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What is the second-outermost layer of the Earth’s atmosphere?

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Thermosphere

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16
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The equation that relates the reduction potential of an electrochemical reaction to its reaction quotient is named after which German chemist, who developed it in 1887?

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Walther Nernst

17
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The rule of maximum multiplicity, which predicts that electrons will enter an empty orbital before pairing up, is named after which German physicist who formulated it in 1925?

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Friedrich Hund

18
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth’s atmosphere?

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Exosphere

19
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What is the chemical name for vitamin C?

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Ascorbic acid

20
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What is the medical name of loss of sense of smell?

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Anosmia

21
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In 1642, Evangelista Torricelli created the first laboratory vacuum using a tube of which heavy metal?

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Mercury

22
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What name is given to the NASA-led program of lunar exploration, intended to re-establish a human presence on the Moon, whose first uncrewed mission went into lunar orbit in 2022?

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Artemis

23
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What name is given to the spacecraft built to carry people to the lunar surface in the Artemis space program?

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Orion

24
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Photoreceptor cells in the outer edges of the retina, that are responsible for night vision, are known by what name?

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Rods

25
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Photoreceptor cells in the retina responsible for colour vision are known by what name?

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Cones

26
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The dioxide of which chemical element is commonly used to remove moisture from the air?

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Silicon

27
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The American neurologist Stanley Prusiner won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for his work on which type of misfold proteins, now known to be the causative agent for several diseases?

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Prions

28
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Prion diseases are collectively known as TSEs. What does this abbreviation stand for?

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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

29
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What was the name of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine approved in 2020?

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Sputnik

30
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What is the simplest compound to exhibit cis-trans isomerism?

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But-2-ene

31
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A MOFSET is a variety of which type of electronic component with three terminals - the gate, source and drain?

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Transistor

32
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Silicon and germanium are examples of which type of material, used in MOFSETs?

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Semiconductor

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