Smells fishy
It's 'in right now
Nobel endeavors
Fail succesfully
They might be giants
100
Peach is a _____ in the movie Finding Nemo, usually seen attached to the side of the tank watching the dentist do his dental work
Starfish
100
Introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium
Inoculate
100
_______ imaged the structure of DNA but never received the Nobel prize (even though the people who stole her work did)
Rosalind Franklin
100
Returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria, leading to the discovery of ____
Penicillin
100
Weight of the largest blue whale recorded
200 tons
200
_______ caused enough damage to sink a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar, bringing total number of boats sunk by them in 2023 to four
Orcas
200
A molecular biology term for an addition or subtraction of bases in the genome of an organism
Indel
200
________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of genetic transposition; as of 2023, she remains the only woman who has received an unshared Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
Barbara McClintok
200
In 1826, John Walker, a chemist in Stockton on Tees, discovered through lucky accident that a stick coated with chemicals burst into flame when scraped across his hearth at home
Matches
200
The neight of the largest recorded dinosaur, the titanosaur
28 feet
300
_______ are displayed in many public aquariums. Often the tank's background is blue and the animals are illuminated by side light, increasing the contrast between the animal and the background. In natural conditions, many ______ are so transparent that they are nearly invisible
Jellyfish
300
A segment of a DNA or RNA molecule which does not code for proteins and interrupts the sequence of genes
Intron
300
_______ who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology, CRISPR, were the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charpentier and Doudna
300
When Spencer Silver, an employee researcher at 3M, was trying to create a stronger adhesive for the aerospace industry, all he ended up being able to create was a weak adhesive that could easily be removed without residue
Post-it note
300
Force with which a Zebra (strongest kicking animal) can kick. Trained humans can generate 9000 newtons of kicking force
13,300 newtons of force
400
Carcinisation is a form of convergent evolution in which non-____ crustaceans evolve a ___-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a ____".
Crab
400
A gene whose presence prevents the expression of some other gene at a different locus
Inhibitor
400
_______ for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila
Nusslein-Volhard
400
First developed in the 1840s as a recreational drug that was taken at parties known as 'ether frolics', this substance became a useful surgical neccesity due to its pain numbing ability
Anaesthetic
400
Fastest speed clocked by a diving Peregrine Falcon
190 mph
500
Fins and other mixed characteristics mark _____ as a crucial transition fossil, a link in evolution from swimming fish to four-legged vertebrates
Tiktaalik
500
Long period of the cell cycle between one mitosis and the next
Interphase
500
______ and _____ identified telomerase, the enzyme that makes telomere DNA for which they received the Nobel Prize in 2009
Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn
500
Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral went for a walk in the Alps in 1941, and wondered why burdock seeds clung to his woolen socks and coat, and also his dog Milka
Velcro
500
Largest wingspan for a living bird
11.5 feet - wandering albatross