Biology Regents Jeopardy

Fancy Vocabulary

100

This "I" word means reactants. 

What is input? 

200

This "O" word means products. 

What is output? 

300

This "C" word means the goal that needs to be met when designing a solution. 

What is criteria?

400

This "C" word means limitations that must be considered when designing a solution. 

What are constraints?

500

This "F" word describes your body responding to a change in your internal environment (by releasing a hormone such as insulin, for example). 

What is feedback or feedback loop/ mechanism?

Put the process in order!

100

Translation 

Transcription

What is transcription and then translation?

200

EMBRYO 

ZYGOTE 

FETUS 

What is Zygote, embryo and fetus?

300

FERTILIZATION

MEIOSIS 

MITOSIS

What is meiosis, fertilization, mitosis? 

400

PROTEIN

RNA 

DNA 

What is DNA, RNA, Protein. 

500

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CO₂

SEA URCHINS DIE 

BURNING FOSSIL FUELS 

What is burning fossil fuels, increased atmospheric CO2, ocean acidification and sea urchins die. 

Anatomy

100

This system controls the body using nerves. 

What is the nervous system? 

200

This system transports materials around the body. 

What is the circulatory system? 

300

This body system is comprised of various glands. 

What is the endocrine system?

400

These two systems work together to increase the amount of oxygen in your cells when you are exercising. 

What are the circulatory system and respiratory systems. 

500

These three systems work together to help you obtain and transport the materials needed to perform cellular respiration. 

What are the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems? 

Protein Party

100

This type of protein includes testosterone, estrogen, insulin, adrenalin and progesterone. 

What are hormones? 

200

This type of protein digests and synthesizes molecules. 

What are enzymes?

300

This type of protein is produced when someone sneezes on you. 

What are antibodies? 

400

These two organelles work together to produce a protein. 

What are the nucleus and ribosome?

500

This happens to a protein when it is heated up. 

It becomes denatured. 

Forgotten topics

100

This process moves WATER from high concentration to low concentration across the cell membrane. 

What is osmosis?

200

The amount of energy that is passed from one trophic level to the next. 

What is 10%.

300

This disease is caused by a substitution mutation and is characterized by crescent shaped red blood cells. 

What is sickle cell anemia?

400

The first organisms to show up during ecological succession. 

What are pioneer organisms/ lichens/ mosses? 

(Any one is correct.) 

500

This is the mRNA that stays IN the nucleus and does not get transcribed.

What are introns?