Which of the following observations BEST demonstrates water’s special property of cohesion? A. A spoon held near a stream of water from a tap deflects the water towards itself. B. A rainbow forms after a rain storm. C. Water forms droplets of dew on a spider web in the morning. D. Water can dissolve other substances, such as sugar and salt.

Which statement is not an accurate description of meiosis? a) meiosis produces offspring that are genetically diverse. b) meiosis produces offspring that are identical to the parent. c) in sexual reproduction half of the genetic material comes from the father (sperm) and half of the genetic material comes from the mother (egg). d) meiosis decreases the number of chromosomes by half so that when a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting zygote has the correct number of chromosomes.