The Study of Life
This type of microscope is often used in school labs, as it is portable and relatively inexpensive.
What is a light microscope?
Broadly speaking, these are the two different types of cells.
What are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
This organelle stores the DNA of eukaryotic organisms.
What is the nucleus?
Name this artist.
Who is Harry Styles (As it was)?
This same three-letter word can be added to the following to create three words.
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What is 'orb'?
This function of life refers to an organism's ability to respond to external or internal stimuli.
What is sensitivity?
This is the name of the process by which prokaryotes may asexually reproduce.
What is binary fission?
This system of filaments and fibers helps cells resist compression, and act as a 'highway' in the transportation of organelles and vesicles.
What is the cytoskeleton?
Name this artist.
Who is Tyler, the Creator (I hope you find your way home)?
This children's fantasy book series by Emily Rodda sees protagonists Lief, Barda, and Jasmine attempt to locate seven magical stones to repair a legendary belt.
What is Deltora Quest?
An advantage of this type of microscope is the capability to generate 3D images.
What is a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)?
This outermost 'covering' in bacterial cells helps aid in protection and attachment.
What is the slime capsule (or glycocalyx)?
This organelle is found in two forms - one with ribosomes attached and one without.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
Name this song.
What is Scream Drive Faster (Laurel)?
In the anime series 'Naruto', this character speaks in rhymes and is bonded to the 8-tailed beast.
Who is Killer B?
Polar charges allow this type of intermolecular bonding to take place between different water molecules.
What is hydrogen bonding?
This coat protein can aid in the creation of vesicles by forming a lattice structure to pull the membrane into a 'bud'.
What is Clathrin?
This example of a vesicle is often found in plants and helps in storage and maintenance of cell structure/turgor.
What are vacuoles?
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What is Go (The chemical brothers)?
In the Harry Potter series, the potion known as 'Felix Felicis' is better known by this common name.
What is liquid luck?
These two finger-like structures allow for greater nutrient absorption efficiency by increasing the SA:Vol ratio in the small intestine.
What are villi and microvilli?
This ribosome subunit size is found exclusively in eukaryotes.
What is the 80s ribosome?
While both fungi and bacteria have cell walls, fungi's walls are made of chitin whereas bacteria's cell walls are made of this protein/carbohydrate material.
What is peptidoglycan?
Name the artist or song.
Double points: Name both.
What is Malas Decisiones (Kenia OS)?
This Soviet space dog was the first dog to be sent into orbit aboard the Sputnik II.
Who was Laika?