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Box jellyfish are the second most venomous marine animals in the world.

Isra goes to Starbucks and uses her Starbucks app to pay for her coffee when thirsty and drowsy. With each purchase, she receives a Starbucks star and when she accumulates 40 stars, she can exchange her Starbucks stars for a coffee of her choice. In this example, the Starbucks stars are ____________ and the coffee is a ______________. 

If Aileeza is studying chromosomes to identify which set of genes was passed down from parents to their offspring, she is looking at the ______ of an organism.

A corrupt lawyer wants to be sure that Josh, a tall man, goes to jail, even if he is innocent. When interviewing the eyewitness, the lawyer inserts phrases like “what did you see when he towered over you?”. This is an example of ______.

Alberto wants to try some new foods. His friend Maya is taking Psych 101 and gives him some suggestions about gustatory perception. Which of the following suggestions are not true? 

The three (superior, middle, and inferior) nasal conchas (turbinates) are part of which bones?

The ulna’s coronoid process and olecranon process articulate with the capitulum of the humerus.

The parents of a 3-year-old girl say that she is having dreams about growing old with Alzheimer’s, as well as dreams about failing her final exams in college. These dreams would be in direct opposition to the arguments of the ­­­­­­____________ theory of dreams, and therefore the anecdotal evidence should be reviewed with healthy skepticism.

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A new study found that there is a difference between a person’s hair color and the amount of television you watch. Per year, people with brown hair watch 1 extra minute of television than people with red hair (p < .05) in a sample of 9,000 adults. Although these results were significant, what is this study lacking?