Mr Williams
What university did I complete my bachelor degree at and which campus or campuses?
Queensland University of Technology
This gas makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
What is the term for all the different species living together in one area?
A community
What type of biological molecule are enzymes?
Proteins
What is the molecule that carries genetic information?
DNA
This is the largest organ in the human body.
The skin
Where did I go to High School?
Centenary State High School
This planet is known for having the most moons in our Solar System
Saturn
What do we call an organism that makes its own food using sunlight?
Producer / Autotroph
What is the term for the specific place on an enzyme where the substrate binds?
Active site
What term describes different versions of the same gene?
Alleles
This animal has the largest brain relative to body size of any vertebrate.
The tree shrew
What is my wife's first name?
Tiana
What do we call the longest river in the world?
The Nile
Name the process by which water moves through plants and evaporates from the leaves.
Transpiration
What happens to an enzyme when it is exposed to very high temperatures?
It denatures
What type of selection favours the average phenotype and reduces extremes?
Stabilising selection
This organism can survive in space, extreme cold, and radiation due to cryptobiosis.
Tardigrades (water bears)
What is the name of my new school and how far away is it?
Gladstone State High School and 6/7 hours
This Asian country is the only place where both giant pandas and red pandas naturally live
China
What ecological concept describes when two species compete for the exact same niche and one will eventually be outcompeted?
Competitive exclusion principle
What model describes enzyme–substrate interaction as the active site slightly changing shape to fit the substrate?
Induced-fit model
What evolutionary process occurs when a small population becomes isolated, causing random changes in allele frequencies?
Genetic drift / Founder effect
This part of your DNA is inherited only from your mother and is used to trace maternal ancestry.
Mitochondrial DNA
What is the name of both of my sons?
Chase and Callan
This branch of mathematics studies shapes and spatial properties, and dates back to Ancient Greece.
Geometry
What term describes a species whose impact on its ecosystem is disproportionately large compared to its abundance?
Keystone species
What do we call the energy barrier that enzymes lower to speed up reactions?
Activation energy
What do we call a trait that has evolved independently in different species due to similar environmental pressures (e.g., wings in bats and insects)?
Analogous structures / Convergent evolution
Only one species of this animal can photosynthesise after stealing chloroplasts from algae.
The green sea slug