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Mr. Trimarco
100

The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful

What is natural selection

100

These simple molecules form the basis of all proteins

What are amino acids? 

100

This is the year in which Air Jordan sneakers were first released

1984

100

This movie set in Gotham was the top box office hit in 2008

What is The Dark Knight?

100

These are Mr. Trimarco's dogs names.

What is Ivey and Penny?

200

The grouping of cells that contain DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a cell membrane, but no other membrane-bound organelles.

What is a prokaryote? (or prokaryotic cell)

200
The minimum quantity of energy that is required to activate atoms or molecules to a condition in which they undergo a specified reaction.


What is activation energy?

200

This singer's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Who is Lady Gaga?

200

This tv show sang its way to the number one show of 2008.

What is American Idol?

200

This is Mr. Trimarco's favorite drink.

What is coffee?

300

This RNA is transcribed from a section of DNA and later leaves the nucleus in order to be translated into an amino acid chain. 

What is mRNA?

300

movement of ions, and molecules across cell membranes without the need for energy input

What is passive transport? 

300
This is the name for the tiny piece at the end of a shoelace

What is an aglet?

300

This music star was the top artist of 2008.

Who is Taylor Swift?

300
Mr. Trimarco once said this was his least favorite phrase in biology.

What is the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

400

Organs/parts many animals still have but are no longer used.

What are vestigial structures?

400

This process produces four genetically unique cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as in the parent

meiosis

400
This country produces the most dry beans in the world


What is India?

400

This song by Flo Rida featuring T- Pain was the top song of 2008

What is Low? 

400
This is the college that Mr. Trimarco went to before the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

What is Harper College?

500

The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.

What is osmosis?

500

The formula for cellular respiration


C6H12O6 + O—>CO2 + H2O + ATP

or sugar + oxygen --> carbon dioxide + water + ATP  

500
This state was the first of the 13 original states to ratify the US Constitution

What is Delaware?

500

This team beat Tom Brady and the Patriots in the 2008 Super Bowl.

Who are the New York Giants?

500

This favorite team of Mr. Trimarco won a championship in 2004.

Who are the Detroit Pistions?

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