Bio Midterm Review Jeopardy!
Atoms, Bonds,
and Basics
Water, Carbs,
Proteins, Lipids,
and pH
Membranes
and Reactions
DNA
???
$100
$100
$100
$100
$100
WELCOME TO…
$200
$200
$200
$200
$200
$300
$300
$300
$300
$300
$400
$400
$400
$400
$400
$500
$500
$500
$500
$500
BONUS
BONUS
BONUS
BONUS
BONUS
1 - $100
• These three types of particles make up an atom.
• What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
1 - $200

This type of atom bond involves the sharing of
electron pairs between atoms.

What is a covalent bond?
1 - $300

This is the group in a controlled experiment in
which the factor being tested for is not applied.

What is the control group?
1 - $400

This row of the periodic table only contains
elements with their electron shells filled without
bonding.

What are the noble gases?
1 - $500

These are the six functional groups. Name four
of them.

What are hydroxyl, carboxyl, carbonyl, amino,
phosphate, and methyl?
1 - Bonus

Name the six steps to the scientific method in
order. Each step is worth $100.

Ask a question, do background research,
construct a hypothesis, test your hypothesis with
an experiment, analyze your data and draw a
conclusion, and communicate your results
2 - $100

This ion is highly concentrated in a basic
solution.

What is hydroxide (OH-)?
2 - $200

These are the monomers and polymers of
carbohydrates. Name both.

What are monosaccharides and polysaccharides?
2 - $300

This property of hydrogen bonding, found in
water, causes molecules to stick together.

What is cohesion?
2 - $400

These lipids, composed of fused ring structures,
are commonly utilized by athletes.

What are steroids?
2 - $500

These proteins provide associations between
your body parts.

What are structural proteins?
2 - Bonus

Put these six substances in order from most
acidic to most basic: rainwater, bleach, tomato
juice, seawater, ammonia, lemon juice. Each
correct placement is worth $100.

1) lemon juice, 2) tomato juice, 3) rainwater,
4) seawater, 5) ammonia, 6) bleach
3 - $100

This form of passive transport involves water
diffusing across a cell membrane.

What is osmosis?
3 - $200

These molecules make up the plasma
membrane.

What are phospholipids?
3 - $300

This action is a form of cellular excretion, where
waste is expelled from the cell.

What is exocytosis?
3 - $400

This metabolic pathway requires energy to build
up larger molecules.

What is anabolism?
3 - $500

This process turns ADP back into ATP.

What is phosphorylation?
3 - Bonus

Name as many types of energy as you can. The
first six types named are worth $100, while
subsequent types are worth $50.

Kinetic, potential, mechanical, heat, chemical,
electric, magnetic, nuclear, gravitational,
thermal, radiant, elastic
4 - $100

These scientists deduced the secondary
structure of DNA to be a double helix.

Who are Watson and Crick?
4 - $200

This enzyme shows DNA Polymerase where to
go when it is going from the 5’ end to the 3’
end.

What is primase?
4 - $300

Name the four nitrogenous bases of RNA.

What are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil?
4 - $400

This scientist discovered the “transforming
factor” (he heat-killed disease-causing bacteria,
then incubated harmless ones with the diseasecausing ones, and some harmless ones became
disease-causing ones).

Who is Frederick Griffiths?
4 - $500

These two nitrogenous bases are classified as
pyrimidines.

What are thymine and cytosine?
4 - Bonus

Name the six traits of a virus. Each trait named
is worth $100.

Have their own genome; don’t have enzymes,
ribosomes, or ATP; have external protein shells
called capsids; infect only specific cells; have
two life cycles (lysic and lysogenic); are smaller
than bacteria
5 - $100

This type of reaction releases energy.

What is an exergonic reaction?
5 - $200

During a lab, we tested foods like potatoes,
carrots, and liver for this enzyme.

What is catalase?
5 - $300

This process forms ADP and a phosphate group
from ATP.

What is ATP hydrolysis?
5 - $400

This type of litmus paper turns a different color
when it comes into contact with an acid.

What is blue litmus paper?
5 - $500

This property of water allows it to climb up small
spaces, like straws.

What is capillary action?
5 - Bonus

Name the three types of cellular work. Each type
named is worth $200. Yes, I know this is
probably a game-breaker. But can you
remember the types?

Chemical work, transport work, mechanical work