A1: Water and Nucleic Acids
A2: Cells and Viruses
A3: Organism Diversity and Classification
A4: Evolution and Biodiversity
B4: Adaptations and Niches
B3.3 Muscles and Motility
Ms. Glanville Trivia
100

This term refers to a large molecule made up of repeating single units

What is a polymer?

100

The type of viral reproduction results in the bursting of the host cell

What is the lytic cycle?

100

This concept refers to the ability of two individuals to reproduce and produce fertile offspring

What is the biological species concept?

100

The forelimbs of whales, bats, and humans are examples of this type of evolutionary structure.

What are homologous structures?

100

A species' role and position in its environment is called this.

What is a niche?

100

Muscles occur in these particular groups to allow movements to be "undone"

What are antagonistic pairs?

100

Ms. Glanville went to this university for both of her bachelor degrees.

What is UBC?
200

This term describes the region of space that is an appropriate distance from a star for liquid water to exist

What is the Goldilocks Zone?
200

These three statements make up cell theory

What are: all cells are derived from cells, cells are the smallest units of life, all living things are made from cells?

200

This technique is used to organism chromosomes to identify chromosomal disorders such as Down Syndrome

What is a karyogram? (Karyotype is acceptable)

200

In Lamarck’s theory, this type of characteristic is developed during an organism's lifetime and passed to its offspring.

What is an acquired trait?

200

Animals in hot deserts often have this behavioural adaptation to avoid extreme heat.

What is nocturnal activity?

200

This myofibril is also referred to as the thick filament

What is myosin?

200

Name Ms. Glanville's middle name - hint, I share this name with a popular Disney character

What is Elsa?

300

This property is the reason for oxygen's partial negative charge in a water molecule

What is electronegativity?

300

This organelle is responsible for the packaging, refinement, and export of proteins from the cell

What is the Golgi body/apparatus?

300

These 8 taxa make up the traditional categories of hierarchical taxonomy (in order!)

What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?

300

Species diversity is made up of these two factors.

What is species richness and species evenness?

300

The type of habitat where organisms must adapt to shifting tides, high salinity, and muddy soil.

What is a mangrove swamp?

300

This specialised tail allows marine mammals to quickly propel themselves upwards or downwards

What is a fluke?

300

Name both of Ms. Glanville's cats

Who are Nutmeg and Sputnik? (Stinky is also acceptable)

400

This property of water refers to water's ability to transfer heat away from other materials

What is thermal conductivity?

400

This classic DNA virus has a distinctive look that is sometimes described as a lunar landing module

What is bacteriophage lambda?

400

This technique can be used to identify organisms from samples of environmental DNA (eDNA)

What is DNA barcoding?

400

This occurs when species rapidly diversify to fill different ecological roles, such as in finches from the Galápagos Islands.

What is adaptive radiation?

400

These organisms can survive with or without oxygen but grow better in its presence.

What are facultative anaerobes?

400

This neurotransmitter is released into the neuromuscular junction to signal a skeletal muscle to move

What is acetylcholine?

400

Besides biology, what was Ms. Glanville's favourite class in school?

What is musical theater?

500

This category of nitrogenous base is characterised by its two-ring structure

What is a purine?

500

This enzyme allows RNA viruses to convert their genetic material into DNA which can then be integrated into the host cell genome

What is reverse transcriptase?

500

This scientist caused quite a stir with his proposal of domains based on rRNA sequences in prokaryotic organisms which previously were placed in a single kingdom.

Who is Carl Woese?

500

This occurs when an organism has two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species. It is common in plants such as knotweed.

What is allopolyploidy?

500

This term describes the actual abiotic and biotic conditions where an organism is found when factoring in challenges such as competition and predation

What is a realised niche?

500

This protein complex binds to calcium ions to allow the exposure of binding sites on actin

What is troponin?

500

Name any musical artist that appeared in Ms. Glanville's 2024 Spotify Wrapped playlist

Who is: Petey, Hop Along, Caroline Polachek, Olivia Rodrigo, Foxing, tricot, Kesha, Jeff Rosenstock, Twenty One Pilots, Jack Stauber, Charli xcx, mewithoutYou, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Frightened Rabbit, Glitch Mob, Keaton Henson, The Hotelier, PUP, Sum 41, Joji, Wintersleep, Cursive, Nirvana, Three Days Grace, Kendrick Lamar, Marianas Trench, Gorillaz, Paramore, Chappell Roan, Hey Rosetta!, Death From Above 1979

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