"Peanut Butter Jelly Time"
Word Origins
The Fungus Among Us
It Runs in the Family
Brain Busters
100

Members of the class Lepidoptera are among the most recognizable insects and their wings have thousands of microscopic scales that are shed throughout their lifetime. Name one of them.

What are butterfllies?

100

BIO

BIO means life

100

This is the study of fungi.

What is mycology?

100

This man is considered "the Father of Genetics."

Who is Gregor Mendel?

100

This is the type of cell WITHOUT organelles.

What is prokaryotic?

200

These are botanically classified as fruit because they develop from a fertilized flower and contain seeds within a pod (a legume).

What are peanuts?

200

EXO

EXO means outside

200

True or False:

Fungi are decomposers.

What is TRUE?

200

This is the type of plant Mendel worked with while studying genetics.

What is a pea plant?

200

This is what the A-T C-G "Apples in the Tree" and "Carrots in the Ground" represent. 

What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?

300

These members of the Phylum Cnidaria can be quite painful if you touch them or get stung by one.

What are jellyfish?

300

IGNEO

IGNEO means fire

300

A lichen is a mutualistic relationship between these two things.

What are a fungus and a green algae (or cyanobacteria)?

300

This is the genetic composition of an organism.

What is the genotype?

300

Name ONE of the three bacterial shapes.

What are 1. Coccus 2. Bacillus 3. Spirillum?

400

Americans consume enough of this annually to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon.

What is peanut butter?

400

META

META means change

400

True or False:

Over 110 species of fungi can glow in the dark.

What is TRUE?

400

These are the physical appearances determined by the genes.

What is the phenotype?

400

I am the process by which plants make their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

500

What did the seeds say when they felt the wind blowing?

TIME to disperse!

500

MACRO

MACRO means large

500

Why is the mushroom always invited to parties?

Because he is a "fun-guy"!

500

In our genetics/Punnett square escape room activity, the baby looked like this singer-songwriter.

Who is Ed Sheeran?

500

The evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant is called this.

What is transpiration?