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100
Caden's zodiac sign.
What is Gemini?
100
The most common element that accounts for more than 60 percent of the human body.
What is oxygen?
100
The significance of viruses in the ocean.
What is: they work as a 'recycling network'?
100
A virus that can infect and set in
motion a genetic takeover of bacteria, such as
Escherichia coli.
What is a bacteriophage?
100
The type of cell in plants that can generate a completely new organism.
What is a totipotent cell?
200
Caden's favorite color.
What is steel blue?
200
The part of the plant where Photosynthesis occurs the most.
What is the leaves?
200
What Patrick Forterre describes as viruses that alternate between an inactive state and a living, metabolically active state.
What are virocells?
200
The slow-acting, almost indestructible
infectious proteins that cause brain diseases in
mammals.
What are prions?
200
A relatively unspecialized cell that can
reproduce itself indefinitely and differentiate into
specialized cells of one or more types.
What is a stem cell?
300
Caden's favorite food.
What is burnt ends?
300
The only part of the human body that cannot repair itself.
What is the teeth?
300
A virus commonly used in laboratories to study how viruses cause cancer.
What is a polyomavirus?
300
A small molecule that cooperates with a
repressor to switch an operon off.
What is a corepressor?
300
The scientist that hypothesized that species evolve through use and disuse and the inheritance of acquired
characteristics.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
400
Where Caden is from.
Where is Springfield, MO?
400
The scientific term for the production of light by living organisms.
What is bioluminescence?
400
How humans rely on viruses.
What is: the formation of mammalian placenta, the growth of early embryos, or building-up of the innate human immune system?
400
The activity of the promoter that controls the expression of the lac operon preventing the RNA polymerase from transcribing.
What is negative control/negative regulation?
400
A key point from Darwin's book 'The Origin of Species'.
What is: 'many current species are descendants of ancestral species' or 'natural selection is a mechanism for this evolutionary process'?
500
Caden's birthday.
What is May 28th?
500
The blood type that has no antigens.
What is blood type O?
500
The two characteristics that viruses lack that would classify them as nonliving.
What is: no metabolism, does not possess cells, or cannot reproduce independently?
500
The two classes of small, single-stranded RNA molecules that have shown to have effects on the translation of mRNA.
What are microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)?
500
The position number that has the common ancestor for species C and D.
What is position 4?