Caenorhabditis elegans SID-2 is required for intestinal uptake of ingested double-stranded RNA.
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Caenorhabditis elegans SID-2 is required for intestinal uptake of ingested double-stranded RNA.
NOT BS
Science
Research findings, viral studies, and scientific claims under the lens.
Bacterially produced double-stranded RNA triggers target-specific gene knockdown in Caenorhabditis elegans.
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Bacterially produced double-stranded RNA is consumed by Caenorhabditis elegans and enters the endogenous RNA interference pathway to reduce expression of the corresponding target gene.
HARDLY BS
IPTG induces expression of T7 RNA polymerase in lac-controlled systems.
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IPTG induces T7 RNA polymerase to transcribe target sequences in both directions, producing complementary RNA strands that hybridize into double-stranded RNA.
MOSTLY BS
WormBase and WormBook collectively cover gene function, mutant strains, development, and experimental methods.
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WormBase and WormBook provide information on Caenorhabditis elegans gene function, mutant strains, developmental biology, and experimental methodologies.
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Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago.
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Dinosaurs went extinct before 75 million years ago.
TOTAL BS
Venn diagrams may use any suitable simple closed curves.
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The interior regions created by intersections in a Venn diagram do not need to be circular.
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Bernoulli’s equation applies to pressure and velocity changes around flat plates.
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Bernoulli's principle applies only to curved surfaces and cannot be applied to flat plate rudders.
TOTAL BS
Crystals have long-range ordered arrangements of their microscopic constituent particles.
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A crystal requires particles to be arranged in a highly regular microscopic pattern.
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Gaseous osmosis is selective gas transport through a semipermeable membrane.
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The phenomenon of strongly attractive gases restricting degrees of freedom is scientifically recognized as gaseous osmosis.
TOTAL BS
Peter Higgs said, “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.”
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Peter Higgs said, “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.”
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ATLAS and CMS discovered the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012.
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CERN discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.
HARDLY BS
Brian Cox joined ATLAS before his major television breakthrough in 2009.
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Physicist Brian Cox was a member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider before becoming widely known as a science broadcaster.
HARDLY BS
A mathematical interval is a special set of individual real numbers.
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In standard high-school mathematics and set theory, a set such as A is defined as a collection of individual elements rather than as a single interval object.
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Long-term evidence shows no significant rise in British red fox body mass.
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Red foxes in England are becoming heavier or more obese over time.
MOSTLY BS
Commercial aircraft windows typically block nearly all solar UV-B radiation.
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Commercial aircraft windshields and cabin windows block the majority of solar ultraviolet B radiation.
NOT BS
Commercial flights receive greater cosmic-radiation exposure at higher magnetic latitudes.
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Cosmic radiation exposure on a commercial flight increases as the aircraft flies closer to Earth's magnetic poles.
NOT BS
Aircraft shielding does not establish higher cosmic-radiation doses at window seats.
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Passengers seated next to an airplane window receive higher radiation exposure during a flight than passengers seated in aisle seats.
MOSTLY BS
Most gem diamonds form in the lithospheric mantle and erupt in kimberlites.
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Natural diamonds crystallize from carbon at depths of about 150 to 200 kilometers in Earth's mantle under temperatures of about 900 to 1,300 degrees Celsius and pressures of 45 to 60 kilobars, then reach Earth's surface through deep…
HARDLY BS
Modern climate change is real, measurable, and primarily human-caused.
Claim:
Climate change is not real.
TOTAL BS
The Eurasian Plate underlies nearly all Europe and most of Asia.
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Most of Europe and Asia lie on the Eurasian Plate.
NOT BS
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