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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Nobles experienced significant economic and social displacement after the French Revolution?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Financial and social crises necessitated calling the Estates-General of 1789?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ancient Romans discovered early methods of dry cleaning using specific chemical agents?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The assumption of weak selection simplifies mathematical models in population genetics?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that There was significant genetic interbreeding between Romans and Native Britons?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A human corpse's biological sex can be determined by examining skeletal features of the skull?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Base stacking interactions confer primary thermodynamic stability to the DNA double helix?
- REFUTEDIs it true that GFAJ-1 uses adenosine triarsenate as its energy currency?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Biochemical and skeletal dating methods accurately determine human age post-mortem?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Natural selection actively maintains and reduces genetic variation within populations?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Species can undergo evolutionary regression or back-evolution?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Molecular mechanisms determine whether a gene is dominant or recessive?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Human DNA can be successfully sequenced from wastewater treatment plants?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Epigenetic marks are faithfully transmitted through both mitosis and meiosis?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The uncoiled DNA in a single human cell is meters long?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Soviet moon mission designs included specific transfer methods for returning to the vehicle?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Space Shuttle successfully retrieved specific satellites from orbit?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Specific chemicals and structures control the direction of plant growth?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters could theoretically re-contact the orbiter during the separation sequence?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Laughter has distinct genetic and physiological origins in humans?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Forensic DNA phenotyping generates visual approximations of suspects?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Replacing DNA in stem cells and placing them in damaged organs heals the tissue?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Human colonization and resource extraction on the Moon cannot measurably affect its gravitational field?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Planetary protection protocols prevent biological contamination of Saturn's moons?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Messinian Salinity Crisis caused global climate and ecological effects?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Absorbed photons transfer momentum equal to their energy divided by the speed of light.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Iran successfully launched a monkey into space and returned it safely?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The T^4 term in the Stefan-Boltzmann law comes from integrating photon energy density over a Planck distribution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The DL notation differs in meaning from the dl notation in stereochemistry?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Chemical kinetics determines reaction rates while thermodynamics determines reaction favorability.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Abiogenesis is possible under current environmental conditions on Earth.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Plants have grown continuously on the International Space Station?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that An unknown ship entering Earth orbit would be detected by global space surveillance and tracking networks?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The total energy of an expanding universe is not a conserved quantity in general relativity?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that A photograph of the Moon allows calculation of the photographer's terrestrial position using lunar librations and parallax?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Constant acceleration space travel significantly reduces transit time to outer solar system bodies like Europa.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The James Webb Space Telescope can autonomously execute orbital station-keeping maneuvers?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Anthropogenic climate change can be completely halted if net global greenhouse gas emissions reach absolute zero.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Space shuttle external tank walls are composed of specific aluminum-lithium alloys and insulating foam?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Complete elemental extraction from mixed waste is thermodynamically limited by high energy requirements?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Solar energy stored via photosynthesis is the primary energy source for the formation of fossil fuels.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that General Pichegru defected to the Royalists for specific political and personal reasons.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Biosphere 2 yielded scientific discoveries utilized in subsequent manned space missions?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that RNA migrates slower than DNA of the same size on formaldehyde agarose gels due to secondary structure differences?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Reusable rockets make space elevators economically non-viable?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Proper time measures the elapsed time along a specific timelike worldline in general relativity?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Absorbed solar energy increases atmospheric height as well as heating the Earth's surface?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that There are more entangled quantum states than non-entangled ones?
- COMMON KNOWLEDGEIs it true that There are known functional consequences of the right-handedness of the DNA double helix?
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