Marine Biology
These marine animals have three hearts, blue blood containing hemocyanin, and remarkable intelligence.
What are octopuses?
An insect's body is divided into these three main regions.
What are the head, thorax, and abdomen?
In biological nomenclature, this two-part naming system identifies a species using its genus and specific epithet.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This quantity is calculated by multiplying an object's mass by its velocity.
What is momentum?
This Japanese animation studio produced Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
What is Studio Ghibli?
These microscopic photosynthetic organisms produce a substantial proportion of Earth's oxygen and form the foundation of many marine food webs.
What is phytoplankton?
These are the tiny openings along an insect's body through which air enters its respiratory system.
What are spiracles?
This taxonomic rank lies between family and species and is the first word in a species' scientific name.
What is genus?
This type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This Seattle-based music movement of the early 1990s was associated with bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden.
What is grunge?
This phenomenon occurs when certain marine organisms produce light through chemical reactions involving molecules such as luciferin.
What is bioluminescence?
This type of development includes egg, larva, pupa, and adult stages, as seen in butterflies and beetles.
What is complete metamorphosis? (Holometaboly)
This type of specimen is the single name-bearing reference specimen designated when a species is originally described.
What is a holotype?
This physical phenomenon causes light to change direction when it passes from one medium into another.
What is refraction?
This 1941 film, directed by and starring Orson Welles, begins with the death of a wealthy newspaper magnate who utters the word 'Rosebud.'
What is Citizen Kane?
These deep-sea ecosystems are sustained by chemical energy from compounds such as hydrogen sulfide rather than by sunlight.
What are hydrothermal vent ecosystems?
This structure in many insects detects airborne chemicals and is essential for sensing odors and pheromones.
What are the antennae?
This evolutionary relationship describes two or more species that share a more recent common ancestor with one another than with other species under comparison.
What is a sister-group relationship?
This type of spectroscopy identifies molecular vibrational modes by measuring inelastic scattering of monochromatic light.
What is Raman spectroscopy?
This Italian filmmaker directed 8½ and La Dolce Vita, becoming one of the defining figures of European art cinema.
Who is Federico Fellini?
This evolutionary phenomenon occurs when unrelated marine organisms independently develop similar streamlined body shapes in response to life in water.
What is convergent evolution?
This process describes an insect shedding its old exoskeleton so it can grow and develop.
What is ecdysis?
This method of species delimitation uses differences in DNA sequences, often from a standardized gene region, to help identify and distinguish species.
What is DNA barcoding?
This principle states that it is impossible to know both the exact position and exact momentum of a quantum particle simultaneously with unlimited precision.
What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
This Icelandic singer released the experimental 1997 album Homogenic, known for combining electronic production with orchestral strings.
Who is Björk?