Bio 101
An “A” in math
Apps and Websites
Scientific ISMs
TV shows to binge
100

In the 1950s Edward O. Wilson studied colonies of these insects & found that they communicate primarily via pheromones

Ants

100

Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean

The average

100

Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell"

Venmo

100

Some plant roots exhibit "negative" this -ism, turning away from the source of light

Phototropism

100

This series, first with Ruby Rose & then with Javicia Leslie as the Caped Crusader & defender of Gotham City

Batwoman

200

4 to 5 inches long, this tube is also called the oviduct

The fallopian tube

200

This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same

The associative property

200

Jerry Seinfeld & Tim Berners-Lee have done AMAs for this website

Reddit

200

It means walking on 2 legs & it first set our ancestors apart from apes 6 million or so years ago

Bipedalism

200

This limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy about a chess prodigy

The queens gambit 

300

The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare

Anthrax

300

You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math

Algebra 

300

Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn was part of the team behind this app for learning a foreign language or 2

Duolingo

300

A creation, whether naturally or man made, in which the final product that exhibits much larger features than the rest of its population

Gigantism

300

The original of this series that featured Blake Lively & Leighton Meester as privileged teens in New York City

Gossip Girls

400

"There's no place like" this 11-letter word, the steady internal environment that organisms strive towards

Homeostasis

400

A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone

The apex

400

You can upload your own music with this website, where you can find many indie and up-and-coming artists

SoundCloud

400

It's the word for tremors & other movement issues associated with a certain disease, even if not caused by it

Parkinsonism

400

This series on which Walter White & Jesse Pinkman were involved in a whole different type of cooking show

Breaking Bad

500

PCR, short for this, allows endless copying of tiny bits of DNA, helping identify diseases & catch killers

Polymerase chain reaction

500

The wavy lines seen here “≈” stand for this

Approximately 

500

Amazon owns this livestreaming service that hosts creators like Ludwig 

Twitch

500

The alligators at Louisiana's Audubon Zoo have this -ism, from the Greek for "white", a loss of melanin akin to albinism

Leucism

500

This comedy on which Joel McHale played a disbarred lawyer who goes back to college & buddies up with a bunch of misfits

Community

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