Animal Science
This is the largest animal of all time.
What is the blue whale?
Despite its more culinary use as a vegetable, this fruit is grown more than any other in the world at over 190 million metric tons per year.
What is the tomato?
This is the most prevalent gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen (N2)?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
Rutgers University was renamed after this Revolutionary War veteran and philanthropist in 1825.
Who is Henry Rutgers?
This common farm animal have the largest eyes of any land mammal.
What is a horse?
This starchy vegetable was the first grown in space in 1995.
What is the potato?
This step of the water cycle sees gaseous water form back into liquid or solid forms and fall back onto the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
This organ produces a substance with a pH of around 1, aiding in its primary function.
What is the stomach?
This was Rutgers University's original name when founded in 1766.
What is Queen's College?
The majority of this Arctic species of shark are blind due to a parasitic infection of the eye. However the parasites wave outside of the eye acting like lures to attract live bait to these slow-moving, ancient predators.
What is the Greenland Shark?
This pest, native to every continent but Antarctica, are famous for their swarms that can destroy fields of crop in minutes.
What are locusts?
This fifth trophic level does not involve predation or the creation of energy from the sun. Instead, they feed off of already dead organic matter.
What are decomposers?
DNA and RNA share three out of four chemical bases, however, each molecule has a different fourth base of these names. (State the actual name, not the letter)
What are Thymine and Uracil?
Rutgers defeated this team in 1869 in the first official game of college football.
What is Princeton University?
This is the only mammal that does not have a common acid-secreting stomach (among many more fascinating features).
What is the platypus?
Zea is the genus of this common crop.
What is corn (maize)?
The cities of Loni and Hotan in these two countries have the worst air pollution by levels of fine particulate pollution.
What are India and China?
This phase of cellular respiration produces 26-28 molecules of ATP per molecule of glucose, the most of any phase of cellular respiration.
What is the electron transport chain? (Will accept oxidative phosphorylation)
Rutgers and Princeton University are in an ongiong war over the theft and vandalism of these two revolutionary relics buried at Princeton.
What are cannons?
The first ever mammal was Brasilodon quadrangularis, a small creature that lived 225 million years ago and looked most similar to these fuzzy non-rodents.
What is a shrew? (will accept mole and hedgehog)
The Neolithic Founder Crops were osme of the first plants intentiinally grown and harvested by man. They include two different types of wheat, barley, lentils, peas, chickpeas, vetch, and this ancient seed used for oils, heart health, and digestion.
What is flaxseed? (Accept linseed)
This type of organism produces the most oxygen, making over 50% of the O2 in the Earth's biosphere.
What is marine phytoplankton? (Will accept plankton, cyanobacteria)
These specific sensors in sensory nerves have the ability to detect painful stimuli.
What are nociceptors?
Rutgers researchers were the first to discover Streptomycin, an antibiotic effective at combatting this disease, known historically as consumption.
What is tuberculosis?