Smells fishy
It's 'in right now
Nobel endeavors
Fail succesfully
They might be giants
100

Peach is a _____ in the movie Finding Nemo, usually seen attached to the side of the tank watching the dentist do his dental work  

Starfish

100

Introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium

Inoculate

100

_______ imaged the structure of DNA but never received the Nobel prize (even though the people who stole her work did)

Rosalind Franklin

100

Returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria, leading to the discovery of ____

Penicillin

100

Weight of the largest blue whale recorded

200 tons

200

_______ caused enough damage to sink a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar, bringing total number of boats sunk by them in 2023 to four 

Orcas

200

A molecular biology term for an addition or subtraction of bases in the genome of an organism

Indel

200

________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of genetic transposition; as of 2023, she remains the only woman who has received an unshared Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.

Barbara McClintok

200

In 1826, John Walker, a chemist in Stockton on Tees, discovered through lucky accident that a stick coated with chemicals burst into flame when scraped across his hearth at home

Matches

200

The neight of the largest recorded dinosaur, the titanosaur

28 feet

300

_______ are displayed in many public aquariums. Often the tank's background is blue and the animals are illuminated by side light, increasing the contrast between the animal and the background. In natural conditions, many ______ are so transparent that they are nearly invisible

Jellyfish

300

A segment of a DNA or RNA molecule which does not code for proteins and interrupts the sequence of genes

Intron

300

_______ who pioneered the revolutionary gene-editing technology, CRISPR,  were the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Charpentier and Doudna


300

When Spencer Silver, an employee researcher at 3M, was trying to create a stronger adhesive for the aerospace industry, all he ended up being able to create was a weak adhesive that could easily be removed without residue

Post-it note

300

Force with which a Zebra (strongest kicking animal) can kick. Trained humans can generate 9000 newtons of kicking force

13,300 newtons of force

400

Carcinisation is a form of convergent evolution in which non-____ crustaceans evolve a ___-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a ____".

Crab

400

A gene whose presence prevents the expression of some other gene at a different locus

Inhibitor

400

_______ for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila 

Nusslein-Volhard

400

First developed in the 1840s as a recreational drug that was taken at parties known as 'ether frolics', this substance became a useful surgical neccesity due to its pain numbing ability

Anaesthetic

400

Fastest speed clocked by a diving Peregrine Falcon

 190 mph

500

Fins and other mixed characteristics mark _____ as a crucial transition fossil, a link in evolution from swimming fish to four-legged vertebrates

Tiktaalik

500

Long period of the cell cycle between one mitosis and the next

Interphase

500

______ and _____ identified telomerase, the enzyme that makes telomere DNA for which they received the Nobel Prize in 2009

Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn

500

Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral went for a walk in the Alps in 1941, and wondered why burdock seeds clung to his woolen socks and coat, and also his dog Milka

Velcro

500

Largest wingspan for a living bird

11.5 feet - wandering albatross