Ecology In Jersey
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NJIT Fun Facts
100

The State Animal of New Jersey

What is a horse?

100

This animal is known to spend nearly 90% of their day, sleeping.

What is a koala?

100

The variable that is changed as part of an experiment

What is the independent variable?

100

The smallest bone in the human body

What is the stapes (in the ear)?

100

Location of the Biology Tutoring Center?

Where is the 3rd Floor of CKB?

200

This river forms the border between New Jersey and Pennsylvania

What is the Delaware River?

200

Currently the Largest Land Mammal in the world

What is the African Bush Elephant?

200

Commonly known database that holds information about various DNA sequences for comparison? Hint: It is an acronym...

What is Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST)?

200
The largest organ in the human body

What is the Skin?

200

This park, nearby NJIT, has beautiful cherry blossom trees, and definitely worth a visit soon!

What is Branch Brook Park?

300

The State Tree of New Jersey

What is a Northern Red Oak?

300

Only type of bird to be able to fly both forwards and backwards

What is the hummingbird?

300

This sequence, originally found in bacteria, has since been used in gene editing.

What is CRISPR?

300

Hardest Substance in the Human Body

What is tooth enamel?

300

This building in NJIT was originally an orphanage. 

What is Eberhardt Hall?

400

This animal, arrived to NJ nearly 80 years ago, and fills a niche left by grey wolves.

What are Eastern Coyotes?

400

Number of compartments in a cow's stomach?

What is 4 compartments? The rumen, the Reticulum, the Omasum and the Abomasum 

400

The year that the Human Genome Project completed.

When was 2003?
400

Most flexible muscle in the body

What is the tounge?

400

What was the original name of NJIT when it was founded?

Newark Technical School

500

The State Flower of New Jersey

What is the Common Blue Violet?

500

This animal can withstand pressures up to 5000 times their body weight

What are ants

500

This discovery in 1928, by Alexander Fleming, was crucial to the start of antibiotics

What is Penicillin?

500

Rarest blood type in the world (out of the 8 main blood types)

What is AB negative?

500

This species of bird has recently been found to have made a nest on the Honors Hall Building

What is Red-Tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis)? 

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