DNA and Proteins
Marine Biology
The Brain
Grab-bag
Labs
100

Where DNA is found in a cell.

What is the nucleus?
100

Most (70% of) fish on Earth live in this ocean

What is the Pacfic Ocean?

100

This year in Bio Club, we looked at the brain of this animal.

What is a sheep?

100

The COVID vaccine is the first of this category of vaccines.

What are mRNA vaccines?

100

The magic tea that we tried this year inhibits this specific taste.

What is sweet?

200

The nucleotide base that Adenine is paired with in DNA

What is Thymine?

200

This animal makes the loudest sound underwater.

What is a whale?

200

The cerebrum is split into sections called _____. These sections each have a different function.

What are lobes?

200

These are the four categories of macromolecules.

What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?

200

Ms. Shopiro brought in this cow part for us to learn about this year.

What is the heart?

300

This enzyme splits the two strands of DNA for replication.

What is Helicase?

300

The males of this small sea creature species give birth.

What is a seahorse?

300

The brain weighs this many pounds (between 1 and 5).

What is three pounds?

300

The experiment where dogs were trained to salivate at the sound of a bell is an example of this.

What is classical conditioning?

300

The DNA in gel electrophoresis moves toward this charge.

What is positive?

400

The mRNA sequence 5' AUUCGCA 3' corresponds with this sequence on the DNA coding strand

What is ATTCGCA?

400

This animal is the closest living relative to cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises).

What is a hippo?

400

This branch-like part of a neuron receives chemical signals from other neurons.

What is a dendrite?

400

This is the term for the false belief that personality traits and talents are determined by certain areas in the brain.

What is Phrenology?

400

The GFPs that we made paper models of this year are originally found in this organism.

What is a jellyfish?

500

Proteins make up this percentage of our total body mass

What is 20%?

500

This is a special talent of the peacock mantis shrimp.

What is the ability to vaporize water?

500

This part of the brain, located in the back of the head, is responsible for balance and coordination.

What is the cerebellum?

500

A cold case from this decade was solved recently due to DNA profiling technology.

What is the 1950's?

500

This was the purpose of mashing the strawberries in the strawberry DNA lab.

What is breaking cell walls to expose the DNA?