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100

Watson and Crick discovered the......

Structure of DNA (double helix)

100

What does DNA stand for?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

100

How many electrons in Helium?

2

100
How many electrons are held in the first orbital shell?

2

100

 Which side of the chemcial equation (left or right) are the products found on?

right side 

200

How many autosomal chromosomes are in a human cell?

44

200

What is the chemical symbol for Fe

Iron

200

What is the chemical formulae for water 

H2O

200

What does the (s) symbol mean in a chemical equation?

The product/reactant is a solid

300

In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of.....

 five times around the world

300

What is the chance of a pregnant female having a boy?

50%, 1 in 2, 0.5 

300

What is the electron configuration of Mg?


300

What is an aqueous solution?

 A solution in which the solvent is water.

300

What is the chemical equation for water?


400

Each of us have around 50 trillion cells (50,000 billion). If we took the DNA from all of those cells and laid it out in a linear fashion, it could wrap around the earth......

2.5 million times

400

What is meant by homozygous dominant? 

Two copies of the same dominant allele

400

What group/s do the transition metals belong in?

Groups 3 through 12

400

What are the products for this chemical equation:

KNO3 + NaCl -->

KNO3 + NaCl --> KCl + NaNO3

400

Balance this equation:

CH+ O2 --> CO2 + H2O

CH+ O2 --> CO2 + 2H2O

500

If [what] exploded, transitioning from the red supergiant stage to supernova, it would light our sky continuously for two months. It could happen anytime — within a couple of thousand years, tomorrow or even now


Beetlegeuse 

500

The gene for short-hair length (H) in rabbits is dominant over the gene for long hair (h).  If a long-haired female rabbit was crossed with a short-haired (HH) male, what will be the predicted percentage of offspring with short hair?

100

500

Who invented the periodic table?

Dmitri Mendeleev

500

2C4H10 + 13O2 --> 8CO2 + 10H2O

Combustion reaction

500

Balance this equation:

C3H8 + O2 --> CO2 + H2O

C3H8 + 5O2 --> 3CO2 + 4H2O