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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Scientific investigations into phylogeny focus on morphologic and genetic evidence.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Crawl space encapsulation reduces indoor radon levels in houses.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Climate change makes conditions in some parts of the United States more favorable to certain types of mosquitoes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Capacitors store electrical energy in an electric field between two conductive plates.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Lenin caused the Russian Revolution of 1917.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Evolutionary processes are primarily based on random events.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that A single 5-hour Energy shot contains a lethal dose of caffeine.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that AI text detectors regularly flag human-written text as AI-generated.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Finasteride slows hair loss and regrows hair in men with androgenetic alopecia.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Password managers can generate random passwords for users.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that ChatGPT embeds invisible watermarks in the text it generates.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Gold is a chemical element.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Chemical equations can be balanced by changing subscripts.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Astronauts eat freeze-dried food in space.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that There is a gay gene.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Natural selection is the only mechanism of evolution.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Spacecraft need heat shields to survive atmospheric entry.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid when it landed on 433 Eros on February 12, 2001.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Desertification is caused by poor agricultural practices, improper soil moisture management, salinization, erosion, forest removal, and climate change.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The five major types of chemical reactions are synthesis, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The introduction of genetically modified crops in the United States began in the mid-1990s.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Valence bond theory describes chemical bonding as the overlap of two separate atomic orbitals on different atoms that creates a region with one pair of shared electrons.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that MicroRNAs are 18- to 25-nucleotide non-coding RNA molecules that regulate the expression of many genes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The JAK2V617F mutation is caused by a G-to-T transversion in the Janus Kinase 2 gene resulting in a valine-to-phenylalanine amino acid substitution at codon 617.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Vertebrates share the same facial layout of eyes, nose, and mouth because of conserved embryonic developmental genes.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Quantum computers have performed specific computations that classical supercomputers cannot complete in practical time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Elements cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical means.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Spaced repetition practice improves students' reading comprehension scores.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Using Grammarly to edit a text can cause AI detectors to flag it as AI-generated.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Commensalism is a biological relationship where one species benefits while the other species remains unaffected.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that A garden of plants aboard the International Space Station could supply all the crew's oxygen indefinitely.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The rates of chemical reactions are influenced by the number of high-energy molecules rather than the average molecular velocity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A battery stops working when its chemical reactants are used up, not because it runs out of electrons.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In electric eels, the vital organs are crowded just behind the head while about 80 percent of the body generates electricity.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and inspired his theory of gravity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sound waves carry energy as they travel through a medium.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The American Revolution was caused by British taxes on the colonies.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Bees should be aerodynamically unable to fly according to the laws of physics.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Profits from the Atlantic slave trade caused Britain's Industrial Revolution.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Antimatter can be used as a practical source of energy.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Lab-grown diamonds are physically and chemically identical to natural mined diamonds.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Spacecraft shed waste heat only through thermal radiation because space is a vacuum.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Shor's algorithm running on a large quantum computer can break the elliptic curve cryptography that secures Bitcoin.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Solar panels still generate electricity in rain, at reduced output compared with full sunlight.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1964 Alaska earthquake generated a tsunami that killed people in Crescent City, California.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Tardigrades survive exposure to the vacuum of outer space.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that AI text detectors reliably detect AI-generated text that has been paraphrased.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Quantum computers with more than 100 physical qubits have been built and operated.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that NASA selected a far-infrared telescope as the first mission in its new Astrophysics Probe Explorer mission class in September 2026.?
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