"Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
Members of the class Lepidoptera are among the most recognizable insects and their wings have thousands of microscopic scales that are shed throughout their lifetime. Name one of them.
What are butterfllies?
BIO
BIO means life
This is the study of fungi.
What is mycology?
This man is considered "the Father of Genetics."
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This is the type of cell WITHOUT organelles.
What is prokaryotic?
These are botanically classified as fruit because they develop from a fertilized flower and contain seeds within a pod (a legume).
What are peanuts?
EXO
EXO means outside
True or False:
Fungi are decomposers.
What is TRUE?
This is the type of plant Mendel worked with while studying genetics.
What is a pea plant?
This is what the A-T C-G "Apples in the Tree" and "Carrots in the Ground" represent.
What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
These members of the Phylum Cnidaria can be quite painful if you touch them or get stung by one.
What are jellyfish?
IGNEO
IGNEO means fire
A lichen is a mutualistic relationship between these two things.
What are a fungus and a green algae (or cyanobacteria)?
This is the genetic composition of an organism.
What is the genotype?
Name ONE of the three bacterial shapes.
What are 1. Coccus 2. Bacillus 3. Spirillum?
Americans consume enough of this annually to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.
What is peanut butter?
META
META means change
True or False:
Over 110 species of fungi can glow in the dark.
What is TRUE?
These are the physical appearances determined by the genes.
What is the phenotype?
I am the process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
What did the seeds say when they felt the wind blowing?
TIME to disperse!
MACRO
MACRO means large
Why is the mushroom always invited to parties?
Because he is a "fun-guy"!
In our genetics/Punnett square escape room activity, the baby looked like this singer-songwriter.
Who is Ed Sheeran?
The evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant is called this.