Units
What is the smallest unit of distance?
1 Planck length (Approximately 1.616255 x 10⁻³⁵ meters).
What is the most basic unit of all life?
Cells.
Fill in the blank: The study of plants is called ______.
Botany.
Camels.
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
The mitochondrion (mitochondria is actually plural).
What is the smallest unit of time?
1 Planck time (Approximately 5.391247(60) × 10⁻⁴⁴ seconds).
What is the hardest material in the body?
Tooth enamel.
How many inches can Bamboo grow in a single day (answer can be a range like 5-10)?
About 35 inches per day.
Fill in the blank: "Peacock" is male, "peahen" is female, "_______" is baby, and "peafowl" is the species name overall.
Peachick.
What fundamental unit of energy is produced in the mitochondrion (Double points if you can say the full form of its partner with one less phosphate group)?
ATP. Bonus: Adenosine DiPhosphate (ADP for short).
What is a cubit unit, and how was it measured in ancient times?
Ancient unit of length, measured as distance between elbow to the tip of middle finger (Used in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel).
What is the heaviest internal organ in the human body?
The Liver (the heaviest external organ is skin).
This indigenous Chinese fruit is called "alligator strawberry" in Mandarin. What is this fruit called in English?
Lychee.
How many times an elephants weight does a blue whale weigh?
What is the name of the jelly-like substance that makes up the insides of all cells?
Cytosol. (Do not accept cytoplasm, it refers to everything inside the membrane, including organelles, and is not just the jelly).
What are the two main types of units?
Base units (like second, meter, and kilogram) & derived units (like newtons, pascals, which are combinations from base units).
What does the hallux refer to (hint: it has to do with legs/feet)?
The big toe.
Name these small holes in the cells of plants that allow CO2 and O2 to pass through.
Stomata.
What species of animal are the only type to have the male give birth to offspring?
Seahorses.
Name the three organelles in a cell that contain their own nucleic acids.
Chloroplasts, Mitochondria, and Nucleus.
What is the difference between avoirdupois and troy units (hint: used for precious metals)?
A troy ounce (approx. 31.1g) is heavier than an avoirdupois ounce (approx. 28.35g).
What is the anticlimactic meaning of life from the A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
42 (Why? Because a computer called Deep Thought said so after 7.5 billion years).
What are the two types of vascular tissues in plants (hint: one carries food, the other carries water)?
Xylem and Phloem.
Name this animal that has black skin and transparent fur, yet appears completely white from the outside.
Polar bears.
Fill in the blank: The four stages of the development of an egg are: Zygote, ______, Embryo, Fetus.
Blastocyst.