How many points do contestants earn/lose for each CORRECT and INCORRECT question?
What is +6 and -2
POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL?
What is the mitochondria?
This type of bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This is the standard unit for measuring force.
What is a Newton?
How many questions are in each section of the UIL Science test?
What is 20 for each section?
The specific term for the spontaneous emission of radiation by an unstable atomic nucleus.
What is radioactivity?
This scientific theory describes how organisms change over generations through the process of natural selection.
What is evolution?
This term describes a reaction that releases heat into its surroundings.
What is an exothermic reaction?
This type of energy is associated with objects in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
What is 42?
The standard unit for concentration, defined as moles of solute per liter of solution.
What is Molarity?
The type of cell division that results in two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
This is the substance that is left over after a chemical reaction stops.
What is the excess reactant?
This contact force always opposes the relative motion or attempted motion between two surfaces in contact.
What is friction?
The amount of gas one mole of an ideal gas occupies at STP.
What is 22.4 liters?
The name of the process when a gas changes directly into a solid without passing through the liquid state.
What is deposition?
Transcription is to nucleus, as Translation is to ________.
What is ribosome?
The molecular geometry and bond angle for a molecule of carbon dioxide.
What are Linear and 180 degrees?
The principle that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The full name for DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Finish the complementary DNA Sequence:
5'-ATCGTAGCCT-3'
What is TAG CAT CGG A?
The primary energy currency of the cell, composed of adenine, ribose, and three phosphate groups.
What is ATP (adenosine triphosphate)?
According to the Brønsted-Lowry theory, a base is a substance that accepts this particle from another substance.
What is a proton (or H⁺ ion)?
Newton's Third Law of Motion.
What is...for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
A neutral atom contains 20 neutrons and 18 electrons. What is the atomic number of this atom?
What is 18?