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The process of cell division
What is mitosis?
A blueprint for living things
What is DNA?
This woman was a famous actress as well as an inventor and mathematician.
Who was Hedy Lamarr?
This bird eats double its body-weight each day to support its heart.
What is a hummingbird?
This is an 8-legged creature in the ocean.
What is an octopus?
Octopuses, octopi, octopodes.
What are the plural forms of octopus?
This animal is only 5 cm long, even when its tail is included in its measurement.
What is a pygmy shrew?
First scientist to propose a heliocentric solar system
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
This is the most poisonous octopus.
What is a blue-ringed octopus?
This bird does not waterproof its feathers.
What is a cormorant?
The spiral shape in which we live
What is our galaxy?
This is the more common name for yersinia pests, a bacteria that infected mammals (mostly remembered for killing people in the 1300s.
What is Black Death (or Bubonic Plague)?
This Polish-French woman is famous for conducting research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
A creature that has 3 hearts, 8 arms, 2 tentacles, and a beak like a parrot
What is a cuttlefish?
This plant is eaten in bulk (up to 90 pounds!) by the controversial bear for about 12 hours every day.
What is bamboo?
This colorful liquid is more dense than oil
What is food coloring?
The smartest new world monkey
What is a capuchin monkey?
This scientist wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body.
Who was Andreas Vesalius?
This fish can tie itself into a knot.
What is a hagfish?
A male peregrine falcon
What is a tiercel?
This part of fungi gathers nutrients.
What is mycelium?
Classes of these include ellipticals, spirals, and irregulars
What are galaxies?
Who is Grace Murray Hopper?
Agnatha (jawless), Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous), and Osteichthyes (bony)
What are fish classifications?
The tallest species of tree on Earth
What is a Redwood?