The Basics
Macro Magic
Cell City
Nice Genes
Wild Card
100
This is what happens to a hypothesis that does not explain an observation.
What is it is rejected.
100
Examples include fats, waxes, and oils.
What are lipids?
100
Prokaryotic cells are missing this.
What is a nucleus?
100
This is the Central Dogma of biology, or the order of things used to make proteins.
What is DNA to RNA to Protein?
100
This is Barack Obama's middle name.
What is Hussein?
200
This is the tool we would use to measure EXACTLY 33mL of a liquid.
What is a graduated cylinder.
200
Carbohydrates are composed of these.
What are sugars?
200
All cells are surrounded by this.
What is the cell membrane?
200
A human zygote contains 46 chromosomes. This is the number that come form the mother.
What is 23?
200
This is where Ms. Schrepfer and President Obama went to college.
What is Occidental College in Los Angeles?
300
These are the two things in the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons.
300
Amino acids are the building blocks of these.
What are proteins?
300
Proteins are made in this builder of the cell.
What is a ribosome?
300
If a strand of DNA reads CCTAGCT, this is what the complementary DNA strand (NOT RNA) reads.
What is GGATCGA?
300
A buildup of this substance makes your muscles sore.
What is lactic acid?
400
The particle located in the outer shells of atoms.
What is an electron?
400
It means no charges on either end, lipids are an example.
What is non-polar?
400
When food coloring disperses (spreads out) in a beaker of water, this process is happening.
What is diffusion? (NOT Osmosis, because the WATER isn't moving)
400
Inserting a nucleotide into a strand of DNA and changing it is also known as this.
What is a mutation?
400
This is the next reward for the class point contest.
What is iPod Friday?
500
This is why experiments with wrong hypotheses are not a waste of time.
What is because you still learn something, even if your guess was wrong.
500
Temperature, acid, and other proteins can affect enzymes. These can not.
What are lipids or carbohydrates?
500
These are the three functions of the cell membrane.
What are identifying the cell, communicating with other cells, and letting things in and out of cells?
500
Inserting a gene from one organism into another so that the new organism produces a desired trait is a technique known as this.
What is genetic engineering?
500
These are three differences between mitosis and meiosis.
What is the number of cells (2 & 4), the type of cells (body & somatic), and that crossing over does not occur in mitosis.
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