Jennifer was heating water on a stovetop to cook pasta. She noticed bubbles of water vapor forming at the bottom of the pot of water as the water was boiling. Explain how this water vapor is formed using the terms thermal energy, temperature, and change of state in your explanation.

In which of the following ways is the function of the surface of a microsphere similar to the function of an actual cell membrane? a.both make it possible for the conditions in the interior to be different from the conditions outside. b.both provide a barrier that keeps water from flowing across it so the interior remains dry. c.both separate the rna that forms in the interior from any rna that might form in the environment. d.both can actively move molecules into the interior or out into the surrounding environment.

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 is the purpose of transcription? a. to copy the nucleotide in dna b. to form rna molecules from dna c. to produce a nucleic acid sequence from an amino acid sequence d. to link amino acids together to form stands of protein