Middle School Biology
The basic unit of life?
What is the cell?
This organelle is responsible for making ATP(energy).
What is the mitochondrion?
ATP stands for this.
What is adenosine triphosphate?
Blood sucking mammal.
What is the vampire bat?
The best club in MGCI.
What is Bio Club?
The system in your body that regulates hormones and chemical signals.
What is the endocrine system?
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
The definition of phenotype.
Characteristics, traits, or physical expressions that can be observed in an organism.
This animal can also be called a cobra chicken.
What is a Canada goose.
The vice president of Bio Club for the 2026-2027 year.
Why is Nina Yu?
The organelle that regulates what goes in and out of a cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The longest part of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
The scientist who studied inheritance of traits in pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Most studied example of embryonic cannibalism, and was covered in George's cannibalism presentation.
What is the sand tiger shark?
Almost got pushed into a lake during Pinecrest. They then fell in anyways.
Who is Keyaan?
A graphical model that shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid?
The point of positive and negative feedback loops.
What is maintaining homeostasis.
This protein kinase signaling pathway, often activated by growth factors, transmits signals from RAS through RAF and MEK to regulate cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation.
What is MAPK pathway?
The national horse of Canada
What is the Canadian horse?
The three signal transmitters on the exec team.
Who is Artiona, Richa, and Sugeetha?
The definition of osmosis.
What is the net movement of water through a selectively permeable membrane?
The definition of the central dogma.
What is the path of genetic information, from DNA to protein.
This phenomenon occurs when two or more species independently evolve similar traits despite not sharing a recent common ancestor with those traits, often due to similar environmental pressures.
What is convergent evolution?
Toothed whales and dolphins have this organ that acts as an acoustic lens to focus and direct echolocation clicks.
What is a melon?
Tried to push someone into a lake during Pinecrest.
Who is Selina?