Animals
The term for the back on an animal.
Dorsal
The organelle responsible for plants green color.
chloroplast
The continent that is entirely desert
Antartica
The two different types of microscopes
Compound and simple
The powerhouse of the cell.
The Mitochondria.
The period where the fin to limb transition took place.
Devonian period
The fastest growing plant.
Bamboo.
Keystone species.
A species of "bear" that has survived the vacuum and radiation of space.
Tardigrade (water bear)
The living thing that all life is related to.
LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
The specialized breathing holes that allow hissing cockroaches to hiss.
Spiracles.
The specialized tissue that transports nutrients from the roots up to the leaves.
Xylem
A place between land and water that removed contaminants before they reach the water.
Riparian buffer.
The two kingdoms that have single celled members. (5 model system)
Archeabacteria and Protista
The state amphibian of PA
Eastern Hellbender
The scientific name of the western lowland gorilla.
Gorilla gorilla gorilla.
This popular vine is famously hard to kill earning the nickname, "Devils Ivy"
Pothos
in 2009, Tadami, Japan, experienced a shower of these animals, a strange but documented meteorological event where waterspouts life aquatic life into the clouds.
Frogs.
Known as the smallest of all microbes, this infectious agent consists of genetic material inside a protein coat and requires a host cell to replicate.
Virus
The reason banana candy doesn't taste exactly like banana.
Banana candy is flavored after the original banana, Gros Michel, while the bananas in store are the Cavendish banana
The animal with the shortest binomial name (2 correct answers)
La io (Greater evening bat) or Yi qi (dinosaur)
What is the oldest living species of tree
Maidenhair Tree (Ginkgo biloba)
Tanzania's Lake Natron is so highly alkaline that it can calcify the carcass of birds turning them into lifelike statues of this material.
Stone / calcium / salt
This scientist first coined the work cell after looking at a thin slice of cork.
Robert Hooke
Trees, sharks, and the Atlantic ocean are all younger than this geographic feature found in PA.
The appalatian mountains.