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100

The powerhouse of the cell

What is the mitochondria?

100

How many tenticles does an octopus have?

8

100

This long, graduated glass tube features a stopcock at the bottom and is the star instrument used to dispense precise amounts of liquid during a titration.

What is a burette?

100

On his 5-year voyage aboard this Royal Navy ship, this naturalist collected specimens in the Galápagos Islands that later inspired his revolutionary theory of evolution by natural selection.

Charles Darwin

100

These parts make up the central nervous system (CNS).

What is the brain and spinal cord?

200

These membrane-bound sacs contain hydrolytic enzymes used by animal cells to digest macromolecules and old cell parts.

What are lysosomes?

200

Any living or non-living variable—such as food availability or space—that restricts a population from growing indefinitely.

What is a limiting factor?

200

This ubiquitous, multi-step diagnostic test differentiates bacteria into two large groups based on their cell wall composition

What is a Gram stain?

200

This person used X-ray diffraction images to identify the double helix structure of DNA.

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

200

Measured at roughly three millimeters long, the stapes—found in this specific part of the body—holds the title of the smallest bone.

What is the middle ear?

300

The physical location order for the central dogma in eukaryotic cells

What is the nucleus --> cytoplasm --> ribosome?

300

This specific type of organism has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem, and its removal can cause the entire ecosystem to collapse.

What is a keystone species?

300

These are the three steps of PCR.

What is denaturing, annealing, and extending?

300

This person is known as the father of genetics.

Who was Gregor Mendel.

300

These are the six most common elements in organisms.

What is CHNOPS - Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorous, Sulfur?

400

This initial, anaerobic stage of cellular respiration breaks down a single glucose molecule into two molecules of pyruvate.

What is glycolysis?

400

The type of population growth curve that features a distinct "S-shape" as resources become scarce.

What is logistic growth?

400

This diagnostic method utilizes enzyme-linked reactions to generate a color change, flagging the presence of specific antigens or antibodies in a sample.

What is an ELISA test?

400

Carolus Linnaeus developed this naming system.

What is binomial nomenclature?

400

In DNA replication, these are the segments of DNA that are synthesized discontinuously on the lagging strand.

What are Okazaki fragments?

500

Found inside chloroplasts, these stacks of disk-like thylakoid membranes are the primary site of the light-dependent reactions.

What are grana?

500

The process by which certain microscopic organisms around deep-sea hydrothermal vents produce energy from chemicals rather than sunlight.

What is chemosynthesis?

500

In standard normal-phase column chromatography using silica gel, which of the following best describes the polarity of the stationary and mobile phases?

What is a polar stationary phase and relatively non-polar mobile phase?

500

Who discovered penicillin, the first true antibiotic?

Who was Alexander Fleming?

500

This is the specific branch of biology dedicated entirely to the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties.

What is mycology?

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