Zoology
Botany
Genetics
General Trivia
100

Which of the following are nitrogenous bases of DNA? 

a) Cystine and Taurine 

b) Glycerine and Argenine 

c) Adenine and Thymine

d) Guanidine and Carotene

c) Adenine and Thymine

100

Who laid the foundation of genetics using peas

a) Darwin

b) Mendel

c) Crick

d) Mendelev

b) Mendel

100

What is an allele

one of two or more alternatives of a gene

100

What is the name of the Connacht rugby stadium

Dexcom stadium

200

What is the main function of the notochord?

a) Conducting nerve impulses 

b) Skeletal support

c) Digestion 

d) Nitrogen excretion

b) Skeletal support

200

What are transposons

a) Pieces of parasitic DNA which copy and paste around genome

b) Structural proteins that help in DNA replication

c) Enzymes that repair damaged DNA

d) RNA molecules that regulate gene expression

a) Pieces of parasitic DNA which copy and paste around genome

200

What is a locus

A specific place on a chromosome occupied by an allele

200

What is the summer sport of Canada

lacrosse

300

Which type of cells form the myelin sheaths around axons

a) Schwann cells 

b) Astrocytes 

c) Adjacent nerve cells 

d) Muscle cells  

a) Schwann cells

300

What was the first plant to have its genome sequenced

a) Maize

b) Oryza

c) Arapidopsis

d) Potato

c) Arapidopsis
300

Consider two parents both heterozygous for albinism (Aa) What is the probability of having three children with albinism?

1/4 x 1/4 x 1/4 = 1/64

300

Which has a higher population Italy or Spain

Italy

400

Earthworms belong to which Phylum? 

a) Platyhelminthes 

b) Mollusca 

c) Annelida 

d) Arthropoda

c) Annelida

400

What is the Green revolution

expanded food production in the 1960s and averted famine
400

Name the three basic categories of chromosome mutation

(1) chromosome rearrangements, (2) aneuploidy
and (3) polyploidy.

400

Justin Bieber was born in London True or False


True

500

Developmental genes are 

a) usually highly variable. 

b) never expressed. 

c) usually highly conserved.

d) found mainly in the mitochondrial genome

c) usually highly conserved.

500

When did the domestication of plants occur

13,000 years ago

500

What is Robertsonian translation

The long arms of two acrocentric
chromosomes become joined to a
common centromere through a
translocation, generating a
metacentric chromosome with two
long arms and another chromosome
with two very short arms

500

What African country used to be called Rhodesia

Zimbabwe