Biology Fun Facts
The powerhouse of the cell
What is a mitochondria?
The number of bones in a great white shark
What is none?
Where DNA is stored
What is the nucleus?
All organic compounds contain this element
What is carbon?
Organism that only eats plants
What is an herbivore?
The percentage of bones in the human body found in one’s feet
What is 25%
The fastest muscle in the human body
What are eyes?
Membrane-bound cell organelles that contain digestive enzymes
What is a lysosome?
Catalysts for molecular reactions within cells are called this
What is an enzyme?
Relationship between two organisms where both of them benefit
What is mutualism?
You only need this percent of your liver in order for the organ to regenerate fully
What is 25%?
The strongest and longest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
The packaging and processing center of the cell (produces vesicles)
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
A deadly molecule if inhaled at room temperature, this compound provides the basis for all life and is looked for on other planets
What is water?
Process that causes populations of living organisms to change and adapt over time
What is natural selection?
The number of unique species of animals in the amazon rainforest (to the nearest factor of 10)
About 3 million (10 to the 6th power)
An animal with its heart in its head
What is a shrimp?
Diffusion across a cell membrane that is assisted by channels in a transport protein or gate (a process)
What is facilitated diffusion?
The three parts of a nucleotide (building block of DNA/RNA)
What are the phosphate group, nitrogenous base and 5 carbon sugar?
Relationship between two organisms where one organism harms another without any benefit
What is amensalism?
The function of this protein is to support the development of the eyes, brain and limbs of an embryo (named after a famous video game mammal)
What is the Sonic the Hedgehog gene (SHH gene)
The only organ in the human body that can float in water
What are lungs?
Microscopic channels that run through the cell walls of plant cells to allow transport of molecules
What are plasmodesmata?
This nucleotide is unique to the genetic code used outside of the nucleus and not present in DNA
What is Uracil?
An ecosystem consists of trogs that eat brogs that eat progs. Progs produce energy from the sun. If there is 190kJ worth of biomass of progs, how much energy does the biomass of trogs represent?
What is 1900kJ of biomass?