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Science Potpourri
100

Kingdom with cell walls made of cellulose

What is plantae?

100

This man beleived that traits could develop during an organisms life, which then can be passed on to offspring

Who is Lamarck?

100

The father of genetics

Who is Gregor Mendel?

100

a malfunctioning cardiac sphincter may lead to this.

what is heartburn (acid reflux)?

100

This astonomical structure, proposed by Karl Schwarzschild, is so massive its gravity draws in everything, including light.

What is a black hole?

200

A group of protists that are characterized by silica shells.

What are diatoms?

200

What is it called when two different species evolve to resemble each other, such as the Monarch and the Viceroy?

Mimicry

200

A specific variation of a gene?

What is an allele?

200

This structure greatly increases the surface area of the small intestine

What are villi and microvilli?

200

Diamonds are made up almost entirely of this element

What is carbon?

300

A device that is used to show the evolutionary relationships among species and groups.

What is a phylogenetic tree? (cladogram)

300

An Octopus tentacle and elephant trunk are an example of this type of structure

What is an analogous structure?

300

These types of cells undergo Mitosis (the technical term for 'body cells').

What are somatic cells?

300

It's the 7 sections of human intestinal tract, in oder, after chyme passes through the pyloric sphincter.

What are the duodenum, jejunum, ileum, caecum, ascending, transverse and descending colon?

300

These phenomena are measured by the Richter scale.

What are Earthquakes?

400

There are five classes of chordates. This class of chordates are endothermic, having hearts with four chambers, and having highly developed brains.

What is mammalia?

400

This can result if a population is significantly reduced by an earthquake.

What is genetic drift (via bottleneck effect)?

400

What term do we use when chromosomes fail to seperate in the anaphase of either mitosis or meiosis?

What is non-disjunction?

400

These are the technical terms for red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets

What are erythrocytes (RBC), Leukocytes (WBC), and Thrombocytes (platelets)

400

This temperature is the point at which all particles stop moving, also called absolute zero.

What is -273.15 degrees celcius

500

A class of animals which must have one fully aquatic life stage

What is amphibians

500

Speciation which occurs when species are physically in contact

What is sympatric speciation?

500

These two events in meiosis result in massive genetic diversity within a healthy population,  what are they?

what are cross over events and independent assortment of homologous chromosomes?

500

These are four secretions of the pancreas

What are trypsin, bicarbonate ions, lipase, insulin and amylase?

500

This is what a group of porcupines called.

What is a prickle.

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