Olympic Stars
Delicious Diets
Confounding Cells
Master of Molecules
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This man is the fastest human in the world.

Who is Usain Bolt?

Usain bolt currently holds the world record for the 100-meter dash at 9.58 seconds set in August 2009 at Olympics Berlin.

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This diet means to eat no animal products.

What is veganism?


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This is the powerhouse of the cell.

What is mitochondria?

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

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This is the molecular structure of water

What is H20?

H2o is water đŸ˜±

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Michael Phelps won this many medals.

What is 28?

Michael Phelps won 28 metals over 4 olympiads.

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These five items are the essential foods for a good diet.

What are: Fruits, Veggies, Grains,Dairy, and Protein?

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This is the name for "the process where a single cell, called a parent cell, splits into two new cells, known as daughter cells, by replicating its genetic material and dividing its cellular components".

What is Cell Division?

This process is fundamental to growth and development in all living organisms and occurs as part of a larger cell cycle where the cell prepares for division by replicating its DNA.

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Another name for Lipids are these.

What is fat?

Lipids are also called fat.

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T/F: Ballooning was an Olympic Sport.

What is true?

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This Canadian boxer and 2022 middleweight world champion is a vegetarian.

Who is Tammara Thibault?

“It was about the ecology, also I just wanted to try it ever since I was young,” she told Olympics.com in an exclusive interview ahead of the 2023 Pan American Games. She wanted to diversify the things that she was eating while maintaining optimal health and found that eating a vegetarian diet checked all of her boxes.

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to serve as the basic building block of life, providing structure and support to an organism, taking in nutrients, converting them into energy, carrying out specialized functions, and replicating itself to produce new cells through cell division.

What is a cell's purpose?


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The 3 main macromolecules are these.

What are Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Lipids?

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This man won breaking (breakdancing) in the Olympics.

Who is Phil Wizard?

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The 26-year-old climber eats a pescatarian and gluten-free diet and his favorite meal is either a pad-thai or salmon teriyaki.

Who is Jesse Grupper? 

Jesse Grupper had a spectacular win on the third day of sport climbing’s Pan American debut. He made up for a 15.1 point deficit from the top boulder finisher by scaling the lead wall with near perfection and returning to the ground with a full audience chanting his name.

When asked how he was going to celebrate, he said he and his team discovered a “really good gluten-free dinner spot."

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The current best estimate is that the average body contains about ___________ human cells.

(get in the range of ten trillions)

What is 37.2 trillion?

There are more cells making up the human body than the number of seconds in one million years. And about 372 times as many cells making just one body than there are stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. And that’s without factoring in the trillions of single-celled microbes living throughout the human body in symbiosis.

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Benzene's chemical makeup is  6 6

What is C6H6?

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He became the first man ever to get three golds in one night at that meeting. (2 Answers, one who, one what)

Who is Caeleb Dressel, and what are the 2017 World Aquatics Championships?

t is unlikely that any swimmer will ever surpass Michael Phelps’ astonishing record of 23 Olympic gold medals – but Dressel looks like the aquatic star most likely to be able to accumulate large amounts of medals at summer Games, Phelps-style. The Florida-born 23-year-old, like Phelps, can swim freestyle, breaststroke and butterfly to the highest of standards – a versatility that means he can potentially threaten in seven or more races this summer.

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This diet requires you to drink extra-light olive oil or flavorless sugar water between meals.

What is the Shangri-La diet?

"Not a bad idea," Dr. Seltzer says. "For some people, exposure to a greater variety of food stimulates the appetite. For others, though, eating the same thing every day makes you bored and crave more foods. Success would probably depend on the person. I wouldn't be offended if you tried eating bland foods at meals. But I'd use whey protein instead of olive oil between meals, because it will satisfy your appetite with fewer calories."

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This is made up of a jelly like fluid (called cytosol) and other structures that surround the nucleus.

What is cytoplasm?

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This many atoms are in glucose.

What is 24? 

A carbohydrate molecule like glucose (C6H12O6) contains 24 atoms: 6 carbon atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms, and 6 oxygen atoms.