Plant party!
This pigment makes most leaves appear green because it absorbs red and blue light for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This marine animal uses echolocation clicks to “see” in dark water and find prey.
What is a dolphin?
selin ademma jagred
Emil Damgaard Jensen
When does a joke become a "dad joke"?
When it becomes apparent.
This type of microorganism is used in bread and beer making because it ferments sugars to produce carbon dioxide and alcohol.
What is yeast?
These plant organs anchor the plant and absorb water and minerals from the soil.
What are roots?
This lizard can run across water on its hind legs.
What is the basilisk lizard or "Jesus Christ lizard"?
sermun betrin staramure
Trine Bertram Rasmussen
Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Because he was outstanding in his field.
These infectious particles consist mainly of genetic material in a protein coat and must infect a host cell to reproduce
What are viruses
CHANCE!
This fish, found in the Amazon, can generate electric shocks of over 600 volts to navigate, communicate, and stun prey.
What is the electric eel?
salinda renael candu
Andrea Clausen Lind
How do you make holy water?
You boil the hell out of it :)
This rice blast fungus uses a melanized structure called an appressorium to build extremely high turgor pressure, allowing it to physically breach the plant cuticle and infect rice leaves.
What is Magnaporthe oryzae?
This plant movement, where shoots grow toward light and roots often grow away from it, is driven by unequal distribution of the hormone auxin.
What is phototropism?
CHANCE!
@Emil
karina ishanti vargasion ochsiedo
Akriti Soni and Giovanni Schiesaro
Why don't scientists trust atoms?
Because they make up everything!
This spiral-shaped bacterium causes Lyme disease and is transmitted by ticks
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
This term describes plants that grow on other plants (like on tree branches) but are not parasitic, getting water from the air and rain.
What are epiphytes?
This deep-diving marine mammal slows its heart rate and collapses parts of its lungs to withstand extreme pressure while diving for more than an hour in search of squid.
What is the sperm whale?
mikares sehden glafreunneshire chasre delephosam
Frederik Gleerup Hansson and Emma Elise Hoch-Schneider
Why don’t pathogenic fungi ever get invited to parties?
Because they always bring down the host.
This opportunistic human pathogen is a dimorphic fungus that can switch between yeast and hyphal forms, a transition tightly linked to its virulence.
What is Candida albicans?