Read this excerpt from "Choreographers of Matter, Life, and Intelligence." With these three fundamental discoveries, triggered by the quantum revolution, the DNA revolution, and the computer revolution, the basic laws of matter, life, and computation were, in the main, finally solved. What is the author’s purpose for including this statement? to praise the impressive work of modern scientists to provide evidence that the age of discovery is concluding to give examples of federally funded scientific discoveries to criticize societies that fail to encourage science

Earth's atmosphere is unique among the planets and is able to support life because it contains a large amount of a) oxygen b) helium c) methane d) carbon dioxide

Snakes, dogs, and humans have a vertebral column. snakes and dogs have tails, and humans have vestigial tailbones. dogs and humans have limbs, but snakes do not. most reptiles lay eggs, but a few give birth to live young. what do these structures suggest about the evolutionary pattern between the three organisms? 1. snakes and dogs are more closely related than snakes and humans. 2. snakes and humans are more closely related than humans and dogs. 3. dogs and humans are more closely related than snakes and humans. 4. dogs, snakes, and humans share a common ancestor. 5. the early ancestor of snakes and dogs is the same, and the early ancestor of humans is different.

In 1919, the temperance movement finally succeeded. they secured ratification of a constitutional amendment (the that banned alcoholic beverages. prohibition began with the 1920 passage of the which enforced the amendment.