E: 29/11 Win six brilliant science books

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theguardian
We're giving away two sets of six books – with a combined value of £67.92 – by some of the world's best science writers. This year's shortlist for the Royal Society's prestigious science book prize has something for every taste. There are birds, beasts, Higgs bosons, cells, oceans and memories:

Bird Sense by Tim Birkhead
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll
Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change that Shape Life by Enrico Coen
Pieces of Light: The Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson
Ocean of Life by Callum Roberts

For the chance to win all six books and feed your inner geek, all you have to do is answer the six questions in our science quiz.

Please thank all posters below for the answers

Daza

• :j Thanks to all the below posters for the answers. :j
  
• ..
• ..
• Deciduous trees shed their leaves in the autumn through a process known as
  • Excision
  • Subscission
  • Abscission
  • Fission
  • ....
• How many stars are there in the Milky Way?
  • At least 100,000,000,000,000
  • At least 100,000,000,000
  • At least 100,000,000
  • At least 100,000
  • ....
• Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
  • CFCs
  • H2O
  • O3
  • N2O
  • CH4
  • N2
  • ....
    
• Which has the most genes?
  • Thale cress
  • Tuberculosis bacterium
  • Yeast
  • Nematode worm
  • Fruit fly
  • ....
• The duck-billed platypus is a
  • Mammal
  • Marsupial
  • Placental
  • Amphibian
  • Reptile
  • ....
• Alan Turing, best known for his work in computing and mathematics, also published research on
  • Particle physics
  • Neuroscience
  • Embryology
  • Quantum electrodynamics
  • Aeronautics

Tooty_Frooty

Question 1) abscission

Question 3) N2

Working on the others now

HTH

Gettin256

Question 5) mammal

http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/duckbill-platypus-info.htm

bigbloke45

Marsupial Oops, sorry. Mammal (Monotreme i.e. it lays eggs!)

Embryology

At least 100,000,000,000

Sophie56

Thale Cress

There are 26,000 genes in the plant thale cress; 18,000 in the nematode worm; 13,000 in a fruitfly, 6,000 in yeast, and 4,000 in the tuberculosis microbe.

Ruth_Grover

Sorry, this competition is now closed.