Biology 100
Biology 101
Potpourri
Human Body Trivia
Current events
100

The concept that organisms who are the best suited to their environment will be the most successful

What is natural selection

100

Tertiary structure of a protein involves these different types of bonds (name 2).

What are ionic, hydrogen, disulfide bridges or hydrophobic interactions? 

100

This is the year in which Air Jordan sneakers were first released

1984

100

This is the largest organ in our body

What is the skin?

100

This late 90s-early 2000s show that features six twenty-somethings living in NYC found a second life on streaming services with Gen Z.

What is Friends?

200

The grouping of cells that contain DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, and a cell membrane, but no other membrane-bound organelles.

What is a prokaryote? (or prokaryotic cell)

200
The minimum quantity of energy that is required to activate atoms or molecules to a condition in which they undergo a specified reaction.


What is activation energy?

200

This actress whose name means 'giving thanks' started her career on the Disney Channel

Who is Zendaya?

200

This is the largest artery in the human body

What is the aorta?

200

The popular streaming video game Fortnite was released in this year

What is 2017?

300

This RNA is transcribed from a section of DNA and later leaves the nucleus in order to be translated into an amino acid chain. 

What is mRNA?

300

Ions require a protein channel to pass across the cell membrane because

What is the inner membrane is nonpolar (hydrophobic) or the ions are polar (hydrophillic)? 

300

A group of ants is a colony, a group of dolphins is a pod a group of crows is a

What is a murder?

300

This part of the human body includes the ilium, pubis and sacrum

What is the pelvis?

300

In 2024, this gen Z activist became the youngest person to address the UN general assembly on climate change

Who is Greta Thunberg?

400

Organs/parts many animals still have but are no longer used.

What are vestigial structures?

400

This phase in meiosis that contributes to increasing variation by way of crossing over

What is prophase I?

400
The popular gen Z app TikTok became the most downloaded app in 2018.  It is actually the second iteration of an app launched in 2014 called


What is Musical.ly?

400

This body part contains alveoli

What are the lungs? 

400

In 2022, after 22 years, Apple said farewell to this once popular product

What is the iPod?

500

The process by which water moves through the cell membrane to balance out a high concentration of solutes.

What is osmosis?

500

The direction in which polymerase molecules build new nucleic acids


What is 5' to 3' or adding nucleotides to the 3' end?

500

In 1920 going to Palo Alto to study at this university cost $120 but the price has gone up a bit since then

What is Stanford?

500

The adrenal glands are above this organ in the body

What is the kidney?

500

This sporting event drew a record setting 24 million viewers in April of this year

What is the women's NCAA basketball championship?