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Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exam: General Science Practice Test 2
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Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exam: General Science Practice Test 2
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1. One is most likely to feel the effects of static electricity on a
2. Most soluble food substances enter the bloodstream through the
3. Glucose is a reducing sugar, which if boiled in Benedict’s reagent, produces an orange to brick-red color. Choose the chemical species it reduces.
4. Of the following glands, the one that regulates the metabolic rate is the
5. Identify the statement which is NOT characteristic of exergonic reactions.
6. Spiders can be distinguished from insects because spiders have
7. Photosynthesis is a cellular process that
8. Malaria is caused by
9. Of the following instruments, the one that can convert light into an electric current is the
10. We can see only one side of the moon because the
11. A tree native to China and NOT to the United States is the
12. The deserts of the Earth generally occur on the __________ side of the continents.
13. Which of the following insects belongs to the order of insects containing the largest number of species?
14. In the small intestine, a digestive enzyme can break the peptide bond between 2 amino acids in a protein molecule by
15. Of the 92 naturally occurring elements, the number found in the human body is closer to
16. Which of the following groups, in primate phylogeny, includes the primate most closely related to humans?
17. The time it takes for the Earth to rotate 45 degrees is
18. Atmospheric moisture (H2O) combines with oxides of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur (CO2, NO3, and SO2) to produce
19. The genomic diversity between E. coli, fruit flies, and humans results from
20. Choose the correct structural formula for acetylene, C2H2.
21. Air-polluting sulfa dioxide (SO2) results primarily from
22. The normal height of a mercury barometer at sea level is
23. The water-conducting tissue in an angiosperm is
24. On the film in a camera, the lens forms an image that by comparison with the original subject, is
25. One-celled eukaryotes belong to the group of living things known as