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Bees
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Genetics 2.0
Extinctions
Flowers
100
Who births all the babies in the hive?
What is the Queen
100
One hypothesis is that these created mima mounds
What is giant extinct armadillos
100
one of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome
What is an allele
100
What is the most recent extinction and what caused it?
What is the sixth mass extinction caused by humans
100
the male reproductive parts of the flower
What is stamen
200
How do bees tell one another where to find food?
What is the waggle dance
200
A giant flower, red in color, that only blooms about once a year. The state flower of Indonesia
What is the rafflesia
200
In coding DNA, what type of mutations cause a phase shift in protein coding?
What is insertion/ deletion
200
The process by which a population collapses and the genetic pool is narrowed in such a way that the species cannot recover.
What is an extinction spiral
200
the female reproductive parts of the flower
What is the ovules/ ovary
300
What is the name of the general issue facing bee die-off?
Colony Collapse Disorder
300
The largest living sea turtle species
What is the Leatherback
300
The woman who helped discover the structure of DNA
Who is Rosalnd Franklin
300
What is the prevailing theory for the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction?
What is a several mile wide asteroid
300
What are the petals of the flower used for
What is attracting pollinators
400
What part of the hive is essentially immortal?
What is honey
400
The largest living species of woodpecker
What is the pileated woodpecker
400
Currently the most favored technique for structure determination of proteins and biological macromolecules. Used to determine the structure of DNA.
What is xray crystallography
400
After an extinction event, THIS opens to create opportunities for accelerated adaptation events.
What is niches
400
a fruit that develops from the merger of several ovaries that were separate in a single flower
What is an aggregate fruit