Lab Protocols
The name of Stanford's HPCC that we use to do our research.
Sherlock
Barnabas drinks tea __ days a week.
7
Mangroves.
The museum where the Stanford herbarium specimens are on a long term loan to.
California Academy of Sciences.
The name of the area between two biogeographic regions, where there is a mixture of flora and fauna from each adjacent region.
A transition zone.
The number of days of inactivity before Sherlock starts deleting your data.
90 days
The number of cities that Brena has lived in.
3
The world's longest-lived non-clonal species.
Bristlecone Pine (4000+ years!)
The approximate number of herbarium specimens worldwide.
400 million (source: Smithsonian)
The biogeographic realm where Miami, Florida is located.
Nearctic
The phyloregion function that calculates weighted endemism
weighted_endemism()
Xianyu is __ months younger than Rong
9
The tiny openings on the surfaces of plant leaves that facilitate gas exchange and regulate water loss.
The genus of Lauren's study system
Erythranthe
The location of the world's richest seagrass biodiversity hotspot
Southwest Australia
The standard size of herbarium paper in inches.
11.5 x 16.5
Where Paul was born
Japan
The type of photosynthesis performed by succulents and cacti.
CAM
The world's largest herbarium.
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France)
The naturalist that did the first biogeographic regionalization
Philip Sclater
The four things you need to put on the label of a new bottle of liquid chemical. (125 pts for each correct answer)
Full name of chemical, date it was created/added, initials of who put it in the bottle, the hazards associated with the chemical.
Lauren's sisters dog's name. For half points, name the dog breed.
Cheerio (pug)
The second half of the photosynthesis reaction. Hint: Here is the first half.
6CO2 + 6H2O ->
C6H12O6 + 6O2
In Daru et al. (2017), it was found that over 50% of herbarium specimens were collected less than __ km away from a road.
2 km
The sum of all the branch lengths of each unique species in a geographic area.
Phylogenetic diversity