TEAS 2
The price of an airline ticket rose from $300 to $350. What is the percent increase, rounded to the nearest whole number?
17%
A sentence fragment is:
A dependent or subordinate clause A phrase missing a subject a verb or both A group of words masquerading as sentence
Which of the following statements does NOT help explain Mendel's law of segregation?
Alleles of different genes sort independently.
Read the statements below and choose which one is NOT true about reference books. When using encyclopedias you want to use the subject index first because it shows which volume to look in and on what pages you can find a particular subject. Articles in encyclopedias are typically arranged in alphabetical order and are signed by the authors. For geographical information use an atlas. Different types of reference books can be used to compare and analyze data in order to make conclusions, track information over a period of time, or to make conclusions. Almanacs provide information on historical leaders while atlases document weather patterns.
Almanacs provide information on historical leaders while atlases document weather patterns.
Which of the following explains how the kidney concentrates urea in the renal tubules?
By reabsorbing water from the renal tubules.
Which of the following is true about conclusions drawn from experimental data?
Conclusions are opinions
The frontal plane is also known as the _____ plane.
Coronal
n which part of the ovary are oocytes produced?
Cortex
_____ is a cross between two individuals that are heterozygous at two loci.
Dihybrid cross
A key difference between science and religion, astrology, and pseudoscience is that scientific statements are:
Falsifiable
Which of the following sentences is NOT written with simple subject-verb construction?
In a timed essay exam, you should think about paragraph breaks. Most paragraphs contain fewer than ten sentences.
It codes for lactase production.
Index
Although not a stage of mitosis, this phase of a cell's life is when DNA is copied.
Interphase
What is the function of the gene linked to the ability to digest milk?
It codes for lactase production.
What is the significance of an Oxford comma?
It is the final comma in a listing of items
What makes the following sentence figurative? 'The hot flame kissed the raw meat.'
Personification
What happens when mistakes occur in replication?
Proofreading corrects most of the mistakes by removing and replacing the mismatched nucleotides.
Which molecule would likely contain selenium?
Protein
Lin wanted to know the correlation between levels of rain and attendance at movie theaters. He found a correlation coefficient of -0.95. What does this tell Lin?
Rain levels and movie attendance are strongly inversely related; the more it rains, the fewer people attend movies.
'Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.' - H.G. Wells What type of sentence is this famous quote?
Simple sentence
Which of the following is NOT a suggested way to make sure your sentences are clear and easy to understand?
Taking time to brainstorm creative ideas.
exponential rate of change.
The graph curves up
The function of a secondary source is:
To interpret original materials
Which of the following is NOT a function of an epithelial tissue?
To serve as a base to support other tissue types
Choose the best replacement for the underlined portion of the sentence. I asked Samantha how she managed to fit so many extracurricular activities into her schedule she was in art club, book club, and marching band, and she explained her system of time management.
her schedule - she was in art club, book club, and marching band - and
Simple sentance
simple sentences contain a single independent clause which forms a complete thought and can function on its own.
Breaking apart a word into its component parts is an example of using _____.
word structure
