Kuru is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system believed to be caused by which type of agent?

A) virus
B) bacterium
C) prion
D) viroid
E) protozoan


C) prion

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Of the organisms mentioned in this study, which is an autotroph?

a. soybeans b. bacteria c. bean bugs d. both bacteria and bean bugs

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Alpine pennycress plants remove zinc and cadmium

from the soil and store them away in their a. chloroplasts. b. amyloplasts. c. central vacuoles. d. Golgi bodies. e. vesicles.

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Which gland is the remnant of the "third eye"?

a. pineal b. pituitary c. thyroid d. parathyroid e. thymus

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