Genetics
Evolution
Earth/Moon/Sun
Planets
Grab Bag
100
The "original code" that resides in the nucleus of cells.
What is DNA?
100
A scientist who published the idea of evolution by environmental pressure
Who was Darwin?
100
The old name for a quarter moon.
What is a half-moon?
100
The closest planet to the sun.
what is Mercury?
100
The little bird that led to the discovery of evolution.
What is a finch?
200
A change in the DNA.
What is a mutation?
200
When most species go extinct.
What is a mass extinction?
200
The force that keeps the Earth and moon in orbit.
What is Gravity?
200
The "Blue Planet"
What is Earth?
200
A type of mutation that does absolutely nothing
What is a silent mutation?
300
The half-strand of DNA that takes the "code" wherever it's needed.
What is mRNA?
300
When two species force each other to evolve
What is coevolution?
300
The phenomena that occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
300
The planet with the famous "Red Spot".
What is Jupiter?
300
Places on the sun that are cooler that others.
What are sunspots?
400
The person who made some discoveries about genetics using pea plants.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
400
When something kills off a random percent of a species.
What is a bottleneck event?
400
A phenomena that occurs when the earth is between the sun and moon.
What is a Lunar Eclipse?
400
It's not a planet anymore :'(
What is Pluto?
400
The planet this character is from.
What is Mars?
500
A type of mutation that occurs when there is an early stop codon.
What is a nonsense mutation?
500
These insects changed color when the trees they lived on were coated with coal smoke.
What are Pepper Moths?
500
The layer of the sun that gives the sun its color.
What is the chromosphere?
500
The planet that has phases that told us that Earth is not the center of the universe.
What is Venus?
500
This plant can stay dried out for more than a century and still revive when rehydrated.
What is a Rose of Jericho?