Plant Bio
The difference between Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
What is flowers?
Famous bird ancestors
What are dinosaurs?
The central dogma of cellular and molecular biology (with quite a few acceptions)
What is DNA to RNA to Protein?
What organism is the origin of all life today?
What is the Last Universal Common Ancestor? (aka LUCA)
The year the first ‘Frozen‘ movie came out
What is 2013?
Tissue that transports water up through a plant
What is xylem?
Pioneer species examples (at least two!)
What are mosses, lichens, and fungi?
The four nitrogenous bases of DNA, and the one unique to RNA
What are Guanine, Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine? Uracil is unique to RNA.
The colors that result from a gram stain, and what they signify
What are purple and pink? Purple means the bacteria is gram positive, and pink means the bacteria is gram negative.
The year the Stonewall Riots occurred
What is 1969?
The photosynthesis formula (balanced)
6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2
The survivorship curve type of humans
What is Type 2 Surviorship curve?
Only organelle to be named after a person
What is the golgi apparatus? Named after
Common model organisms for microbiology research (many answers, whoever names the most wins)
What are E. coli, P. fluorescens, B.subtilis, C. crescentus, M. genitalium, A. fischeri, B. thetaiotaomicron, photosynthetic Cyanobacterium (Synechocytis), A. vinelandii, S. coelicolor?
*Correct me if there‘s anything wrong, I am not a microbiology person*
The person who was recently found guilty for the murder of Tupac Shakur
Who is Duane “Keefe D” Davis?
The dominant life stage of bryophytes
What is haploid?
The deadliest mass extinction, double points if you know how many MYA it is!
What is the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (aka The Great Dying)?
Double points: 299 - 251 MYA
The name of the bond that holds the DNA backbone together
What is a phosphodiester bond?
The movement of cells in response to chemical stimuli
What is chemotaxis?
The year Vesta Holt was born AND the year she died
What are 1892 and 1970?
The common name for Monotropa uniflora
What is Ghost Pipe? My favorite plant, that’s what.
The closest living relative to elephants
What are manatees and hyraxes? Either will do!
Number of antigens that can be used to determine blood type
What is 398?
The biological process that allows bacteria to communicate, count population, coordinate group behaviors
What is quorum sensing?
Time of year the Chicxulub impact occurred (the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and caused the K-Pg mass extinction)
What is spring to summer? I’ll also take April - June.