Read the following sentence: "When you look at a basketball, what are you seeing?"

Why might the author have started the passage with this question?

a
to give the reader an object to visualize before examining the role of light
b
because the main idea of the passage is about basketball
c
because the author wants to use the example of basketball to explain electromagnetic radiation
d
to show how important the color orange is to electromagnetic waves

Which is an advantage of having memory cells when a pathogen is encountered for a second time. a) the memory cells are what proliferate into clones of cells in response to the binding of an antigen. b) memory cells are vital to the primary immune response in that they immediately recognize pathogens even at the first encounter. c) memory cells are essentially effector cells that are short lived and attack antigens even without having a receptor specific to that antigen. d) it ensures that more lymphocytes with a receptor specific to a particular antigen will be present than in a host that had never encountered that pathogen.

Which of these would most likely be a stimulus that would cause the body to initiate feedback mechanisms a.) normal body temperature in an arctic environment b.) normal boy temperature in a tropical environment c.)light physical activity d.)low blood sugar

Which type of organism is a caterpillar