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The flagellar arrangement seen below is when small bunches of flagella are arising from one end or pole of the bacterial cell.  

You discover a new bacterium in a pond. You stain the new bacterium and observe purple round bacteria. What can you conclude from this?  

Which of the following statements about the force of gravity is FALSE?

What phase of the Moon must it be to have a solar eclipse?

The time it takes for the Sun to return to the same place in our sky after the Earth has rotated once is called:

Briefly describe each of Kepler’s Three Laws of Planetary Motion.

The star that is currently closest to the North Celestial Pole is:

An eccentric billionaire wants to build a mansion in a location on Earth where the effect of the seasons is the least pronounced — where summer and winter are not that different. Where should his personal astronomer advise him to build?

In Ptolemy’s system the planets orbit the Earth and not the Sun. How did the system explain the retrograde motion of planets like Jupiter?

In Newton’s Law of Gravity, the force of gravity goes up as the: