Which of the following statements regarding the movement of electrons during cellular respiration is true? A. Electrons tend to move away from O2.
B. O2 is reduced when it accepts electrons and forms water.
C. The electrons release large amounts of energy each time they are transferred from one molecule to another.
D. O2 is eventually oxidized by the electrons to form water.

B. O2 is reduced when it accepts electrons and forms water.

Explanation:

During cellular respiration water is formed when oxygen receives electrons and picks up protons at the conclusion of the electron transport chain. The electron transport chain will stop functioning if there isn't enough oxygen to receive electrons (for example, because a person isn't breathing in enough oxygen), and ATP will no longer be created by chemiosmosis. Cells can't carry out the reactions they need to function if they don't even have enough ATP, and they may perish after a long period of time.

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.