BOTANICAL BOPS
A 2018 HIT FROM POST MALONE AND SWAE LEE HAS THIS FLORAL NAME
What is Sunflower?
THIS COMMON BAKERY FOOD IS KNOWN BY ALL AND ‘RISES’ DUE TO Saccharomyces cerevisiae, A SPECIES OF BACTERIA
What is Bread?
THIS SEA CREATURE CAN REGENERATE ENTIRE LIMBS IF THEY’RE LOST TO A PREDATOR AND WAS POPULARIZED BY A CHILDREN’S TV SHOW
What is starfish?
WHEN SCIENTISTS CLONED THIS SHEEP IN 1996, THE WORLD CHEERED, AND THEN PANICKED THAT HUMANS MIGHT BE NEXT.
Who is Dolly?
GENETICIST CURT CONNERS GIVES HIMSELF LIZARD DNA IN THIS ANDREW GARFIELD-LED SUPERHERO MOVIE
What is The Amazing Spider-Man?
TAYLOR SWIFT COMPARES LIFE TO THIS TITULAR TREE OF THE LEAD SINGLE FROM EVERMORE
What is Willow?
THIS PLANT LEAVES A COOLING SENSATION BY INTERACTING WITH RECEPTORS IN THE MOUTH AND IS ALSO A COMMON FLAVOUR OF MANY TOOTHPASTES
What is mint?
THIS CLEVER LAND ANIMAL CAN CONTROL EACH OF ITS EYES INDIVIDUALLY AND IS KNOWN FOR ITS LONG AND FAST TONGUE
What is chameleon?
NAMED AFTER THE WOMAN WHO NEVER CONSENTED TO HER CELLS BEING USED, THESE “IMMORTAL” CELLS HAVE BEEN IN COUNTLESS LABS SINCE THE 1950s
What are HeLa cells?
THE VIDEO GAME-TURNED TV SHOW THE LAST OF US DEPICTS ZOMBIE-LIKE CREATURES INFECTED WITH CORDYCEPS, A MEMBER OF WHICH BIOLOGICAL KINGDOM?
What are fungi?
THE GOO GOO DOLLS SAY THEY “...DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME/CAUSE I DON”T THINK THAT THEY’D UNDERSTAND” IN THIS FLOWERING SONG, WHICH COINCIDENTALLY NAMES PART OF THE EYE
What is Iris?
SNAP, CHOW, CHOMP! THE CRUNCHY TEXTURE OF CELERY DERIVES FROM THIS TERM DESCRIBING WATER PRESSURE INSIDE CELLS
What is turgor pressure?
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THESE GUYS DUE TO THEIR SIZE! THEIR “PUNCHES” EXUDE MORE HEAT THAN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN
What are pistol shrimp?
IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY, THIS “SCIENCE” CLAIMED TO IMPROVE HUMANITY THROUGH SELECTIVE BREEDING, AND WAS LATER USED TO JUSTIFY HORRIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
What is eugenics?
JEFF GOLDBLUM ACCIDENTALLY FUSES WITH THIS INSECT IN A 1986 SCI-FI HORROR FILM OF THE SAME NAME
What is The Fly?
THE BERRY-LOVING BEATLES ARE GOING TO THESE FIELDS FOREVER IN A 1967 SONG
What is Strawberry Fields Forever?
THIS MOLECULE GIVES CHILI PEPPERS THEIR SIGNATURE “HEAT” BY ACTIVATING PAIN RECEPTORS IN THE MOUTH
What is Capsaicin?
PIGMENTS KNOWN AS CHROMATOPHORES ARE USED FOR CAMOFLAUGE IN THIS CREATURE WHICH IS ALSO CLOSELY RELATED TO SNAILS
What is octopus?
THIS DISASTROUS 1950S DRUG, MARKETED TO PREGNANT WOMEN, CAUSED THOUSANDS OF BIRTH DEFECTS AND LED TO STRONGER DRUG SAFETY REGULATIONS WORLDWIDE
What is thalidomide?
NUCLEOTIDE BASES MAKE UP THE NAME OF THIS 1997 SCI-FI FILM STARRING ETHAN HAWKE AND UMA THURMAN
What is Gattaca?
NOT ACTUALLY A MARINE MAMMAL, THE SINGER SEAL COMPARES YOU TO A PECK FROM A PLANT IN THIS GRAMMY-WINNING SONG
What is Kiss from a Rose?
THE YELLOW IN EGG YOLKS AND CORNMEAL COMES FROM THIS CLASS OF PLANT PIGMENTS THAT ALSO GIVE FALL LEAVES THEIR COLOURS
What are carotenoids?
THESE ANIMALS HAVE TOXIC BLUE BLOOD TO BACTERIA AND HAVE SAVED HUMAN LIVES WITH IT, THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN FOR NOT BEING A CRAB EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE IT IN THEIR NAME
What is horseshoe crab?
BEFORE THE NUREMBERG CODE EXISTED, JAPAN’S UNIT 731 CARRIED OUT DEADLY HUMAN EXPERIMENTS DURING WORLD WAR II UNDER THE GUISE OF RESEARCH INTO THESE
What are biological weapons?
FORGET MEIOSIS - A 5X OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM FROM 2024 BEGINS WITH AN EGG YOLK SPLITTING IN TWO AFTER BEING INJECTED WITH THIS TITULAR LIQUID
What is The Substance?