By what name is N-acetyl-S-methoxy tryptamine better known?
Melatonin
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Carrots are good for your eyesight: true or false?
TRUE
Carrots are a source of retinal, which help the light absorb light energy, carrots won't make eyesight sharper but it will improve the ocular health
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Broca's area in the human brain is responsible for which function?
Speech and articulation
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How many human chromosomes are there?
Forty-six (labelled A-G and then X and Y)
23 pairs of chromosomes
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The stirrup, the smallest bone in humans, is found in which part of the body?
The ear
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In 2013, Mark Cahill became the ?rst Briton to undergo which pioneering medical operation?
A hand transplant
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True or false - more than a quarter of the bones in the human body are in the hands?
TRUE
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In which decade was the world's first successful heart transplant carried out?
1960's
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Rickets is caused by a deficiency of which vitamin?
Vitamin D
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Which two bones make up the lower arm, between the elbow and wrist?
Ulna and radius
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What are the three types of muscles?
Skeletal, cardiac and smooth
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What is the fluid that protects joints, as most joints are comprised of two imperfectly connected bones?
Syvnovia or syvnovial fluid
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Where is the muscle called the trapezius found?
Base of the skull
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What are the three types of vertebrae?
Cervical, thoracic and lumbar
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What are the small bones found in both the feet and the hands?
Phalanges
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Where in the body are the corticosteroids that provide the body's natural anti-inflammatories produced?
Adrenal cortex
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What would an Ishihara test hope to establish?
The degree of colour-blindness in the subject
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In what part of the body are the human vocal chords found?
Larynx
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What part of the body has a protective layer called the sclera?
The eye
it is the opaque, milky fluid which protects the sensitive working parts
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What could a woman not do without a Fallopian tube?
Give birth
the tube carries the egg from the ovary to the uterus
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What is the fluid that surrounds, bathes and nutrifies cells in the body? And what carries excess of it around the body and feeds it back into the blood supply?
Interstitial fluid; the lymphatic system
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What is the term applied when an organ protrudes through the protective cavity around it, often causing discomfort or pain?
Hernia
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What part of the body has four parts: ascending, descending, transverse and sigmoid?
Colon
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