Genetics
Ecology and Evolution
Human Anatomy
Miscellaneous Bio
Bio Riddles / Bio Logic
100
An individual with the genotype IᴬIᴮ has which blood type?
What is AB?
100
The preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms are called...?
What are fossils?
100
What structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain?
What is Corpus callosum?
100
The term for an organism with both male and female reproductive organs.
What is a hermaphrodite?
100
I’m neither plant nor animal, I absorb but don’t digest. I helped you make bread rise once. What am I?
Answer: What is yeast (fungus)?
200
Identify the chromosomal abnormality shown here.
What is Down syndrome?
200
What kind of evolutionary trait is this?
What is vestigial structure?
200
The smallest bones in the human body are?
What is stapes (stirrup), malleus (hammer) and incus (anvil) ?
200
In binomial nomenclature, the first name is the ___ and the second is the ___.
What is genus and species?
200
You won’t see me, but I’m everywhere.
Sometimes I help, sometimes I scare.
I may cause plague, or fix your roots —
Guess my name, I’m in cahoots.
What is Bacteria?
300
This type of inheritance involves more than one gene controlling a single trait, such as height.
What is polygenic inheritance?
300
The process where unrelated species evolve similar traits.
What is Convergence?
300
This hormone regulates calcium levels by promoting uptake in the intestines and reabsorption in kidneys.
What is parathyroid hormone (PTH)?
300
This symbiotic relationship benefits one organism while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
300
I begin life as a zygote, divide till I’m many.
Then fold, stretch, specialize—without ever being any.
What concept am I describing?
What is differentiation?
400
Name the process by which RNA is made from DNA. What enzyme facilitates this?
What is Transcription?
What is RNA polymerase?
400
What is the process by which pollutants increase in concentration up food chains?
What is Biomagnification?
400
Name the missing bone in the carpal group.
What is the scaphoid?
400
Identify this infectious agent.
What is a TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus)?
400
Born from division, but not a clone,
I carry traits all on my own.
Half from mom, half from dad,
When I unite, life’s never so glad.
What is a Gamete?
500
How many different gametes can be produced by an individual with the genotype AaBbCc?
What is 8?
500
Which concept explains that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot coexist at constant population values?
What is Competitive exclusion principle?
500
Which enzyme starts starch digestion in the mouth?
What is Amylase?
500
Which plant hormone causes fruit ripening and leaf abscission?
What is Ethylene?
500
I live inside but work outside,
Using mRNA as my guide.
Linking acids side by side,
I build the tools you need with pride.
What is Ribosome?