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According to the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, any powers not delegated to the national government by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,

Which amendments to the U.S. Constitution are collectively known as the “Civil War Amendments”?

What is the era of U.S. history after the Civil War, when much of the former Confederacy was under military occupation, best known as?

Regulations for most of your day-to-day life including birth, death, marriage, and divorce are spelled out in federal law.

Many of the political conflicts in the United States have been fought over the proper roles of states versus the national government.

Describe the mechanisms by which organisms adapt to really high and low pH.

There is a microbial tracking program on the International Space Station and they discover that there are approximately 1000 colony forming units of bacteria on the wall of the space station. What should the crew do?    

If you are a microbe and you get your carbon from glucose and your energy from the sun you would be a…

Does the Giant Impact Model count as science?  Justify your answer.

You are part of a team that was testing the new Mars Perseverance rover in the Atacama Desert. On Day 1 you explored this pristine site and saw that there was a high concentration of oxygen, nitrate, and sulfate. The sand grains in the study site were also covered in iron and manganeses oxides. On Day 2 one of the local mining companies had an accident and spilled thousands of gallons of gasoline on the same site you were studying (unfortunately this happens). Describe the succession of all possible metabolisms of the bacteria associated with the aquifer based on the availability of nutrients listed above from the area closest to the gas spill and outward.  You then return several weeks later what is the most likely metabolism to be at the origin of the contamination site (at the spot where the gas was first dumped)