Properties of Life
Cell Structure
Biomolecules
Not Just For Show!
Me :)
200

A property that may also apply to your sock drawer.

What is order/organization?

200

The 'powerhouses of the cell'.

What are the mitochondria?

200
The body's go-to for immediate energy needs! Simple and sweet.

What are carbohydrates?

200

These ocean critters can have 'feet' made up of fool's gold -- which doesn't melt, even in their incredibly hot homes!

What is a scaly-foot gastropod?

200

I'm from this city! 21 years, born and raised.

What is Chicago, IL?

400

A property that allows an organisms to make two of itself, and those two to make four, and so on.

What is reproduction?

400

An organelle responsible for keeping DNA safe and sound to be used for transcription and translation.

What is the nucleus?

400

The body's tool for storing energy for the long-term, or creating membranes to separate processes.

What are lipids?

400

You may have it if you experience polydipsia, polyuria, and polyphagia -- just to name a few! 

What is diabetes?

400

I'm currently attending this university for my doctorate!

What is SDSU?

600

The process in which food is broken down into usable energy.

What is metabolism/energy processing?

600

Ribosomes make their homes on this rough organelle.

What is the rough endoplasmic reticulum?

600

Versatile tools that can be enzymes, receptors, or even machines to make more of themselves.

What are proteins?

600

An important process that we all do, and can be split into four stages: N1, N2, N3, and REM.

What is sleep?

600

This is my specific area of expertise! It's a real hot field these days.

What is fire ecology?

800

A property that allows an organism to adapt to adverse or specific conditions over several generations.

What is evolution?

800

This small, oft-forgotten organelle is single-membraned, but is able to turn cellular toxins into H2O2.

What is a peroxisome?

800
A way to store information in the long- or short-term, depending on if your sugar is a deoxyribose or a ribose.

What is a nucleic acid?

800

These strange mimics of the sea are sometimes referred to as 'crab hypnotists'.

What are cuttlefish?

800
This is my favorite Sondheim musical, despite its mixed reception and the fact that it doesn't even have one overture, let alone multiple.

What is Pacific Overtures?

1000

This is what allows organisms to perceive their environment and make decisions based on their surroundings.

What is response to stimuli/sensitivity?

1000

This sleek organelle is responsible for modifying lipids before they are sent to the golgi body for transport.

What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?

1000
The category steroids belong in, despite not looking like the rest of the examples.

What are lipids?

1000

An enzyme that converts codeine into morphine when it passes through the liver.

What is CYP2D6?

1000

This is one of my favorite music genres: Japan's answer to the American funk music of the 70s and 80s with always Stay With Me, through every Windy Summer right up until the Last Goodbye.

What is City Pop?

(all of those are great songs by the way just saying!!!)