It's a Small World
10,000 of these lined up would be about the thickness of your thumbnail.
Prochlorococcus bacteria
Scientists at the Max Plank Institute discovered a unique bacterium that lives inside a eukaryote and provides it with energy, much like a mitochondria. However it has one major difference: instead of using oxygen, this endosymbiont generates energy by respiring ________.
nitrate/nitrogen is ok
When (two words)_____ _____, carbon trapped in the frozen soil is decomposed by microbes and released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and methane
permafrost thaws
Former professor Rachel Garlinghouse says that instead of choosing a career out of high school, teens should:
Focus on exploration and responsibility. They can decide on a career later.
Draeger's cartoon hero and role model:
Uncle Iroh from Avatar: the Last Airbender
Smallest measurement in Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake.
1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder
deCODE genetics created a DNA map is the first to capture the finer-scale mixing of _______DNA, known as non-crossover recombination
grandparental
Currently, the Arctic is warming at ____ times the global rate.
4
More than a dozen states have sued _____ for having an adverse affect on teen health.
TikTok
Using advanced mass spectrometry and other analytical techniques, researchers at the University of Liverpool detected remnants of _______ in the hip bone of an Edmontosaurus, a duck-billed dinosaur.
collagen
Scientist María del Carmen Muñoz-Marín observed that Prochlorococcus cells, and also with another bacterium, called Synechococcus, were linked by what kind of structure?
Bacterial nanotubules
How did Mark Peiffer and his team find the "obelisks"?
The scanned massive amounts of genetic data in found in human-associated microbes
The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) what is happening with carbon dioxide in the Arctic for the first time in millennia?
Carbon dioxide is being emitted instead of absorbed
What is the name of TikTok's Chinese parent company?
Bytedance
Draeger's favorite dish.
Come on, people. It's macaroni and cheese!
The “obelisks” found in human bodies by Mark Peiffer are similar to viroids found in plants. But these were found in:
Human bacteria
Scientists at Max Plank Institute searched massive public sequencing databases containing genetic data from a wide range of environmental samples. Their findings were surprising: the symbionts the discovered appeared in about _____ different datasets.
1000
The bacteria discovered in ocean environments move substances across nanotubule bridges from cell to cell including substances such as ______ _____, _______, and ______
amino acids, enzymes and toxins
Ina Garten discovered something that "makes grown men weep". What is it?
Chocolate Cake
When asked "what are we doing today?" Draeger usually says:
"We're duct taping you to the wall and pelting you with wet paper towels."
The nitrogen respiring bacteria found by the Max Plank Institute make up a new genus called:
Azosocius
Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, have created a comprehensive map of how human _____ is mixed and passed down during reproduction.
DNA
Since 2003, circumpolar ______ emissions have averaged 207m tons of carbon annually, according to the NOAA.
wildfire
What is the 37% rule in real life (not the puzzle)?
When faced with random choices and you want to pick the best one, reject every one. That is, up to a point – and once you reach that point, accept the next choice that beats you’ve seen so far.
What does Draeger want to do when she grows up?
Any one of the following:
writer, artist, architect, meadery owner, furniture design, clothing design