Horror movies and science fiction stories are often based on the premise that one person's brain has been surgically removed and implanted in the body of another person. This would actually be impossible because a. damage to the brain is almost always fatal. b. if the corpus callosum is cut, the brain cannot function. c. the blood brain barriers would not protect against infection. d. damage to neurons in the CNS is usually considered permanent.

Out of the seven main animal groups (fish, mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, and arachnids), how many contain members with internal backbones? a. 5 b. 3 c. 7 d. 1

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

What were the main components of earth’s earliest atmosphere? oxygen and ammonia hydrogen and helium oxygen and nitrogen hydrogen and nitrogen