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Biology HNS
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Biology Jeopardy Game
The Plant Factory (Photosynthesis):
1) The gas that plants take in along with water to go through photosynthesis.
Answer: What is carbon dioxide?
2) The chemical formula of glucose.
Answer: What is C6H12O6?
3) An organism that creates its own food through the process of photosynthesis or another source of
energy.
Answer: What is an autotroph?
4) A group of pigments in the thylakoid membrane that gather energy from light.
Answer: What is a light harvesting complex?
5) 2H2O + Photon of Light -> 4H++O2 + 4eAnswer: What is photolysis?
6) A five carbon molecule with two phosphate groups attached at each end.
Answer: What is ribulose biphosphate? (or what is RuBP?)
7) An enzyme that fixes carbon dioxide to RuBP.
Answer: What is rubisco?
8) The making of ATP by using sunlight energy.
Answer: What is photophosphorylation?
9) When water evaporates from the leaves and stems of the plant.
Answer: What is transpiration?
10) Leaves where the leaf venation is straight.
Answer: What are monocots?
Breathing it Every Day (Cellular Respiration):
1) The formula of cellular respiration.
Answer: What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy?
2) The decomposition of glucose to pyruvate.
Answer: What is glycolysis?
3) The cycle in which the conversion of each pyruvate to 3 NADH, 1 FADH2, and 1 ATP occurs.
Answer: What is Krebs Cycle?
4) The location of the Krebs Cycle.
Answer: What is the mitochondrial matrix?
5) The process of extracting ATP from NADH and FADH2.
Answer: What is oxidative phosphorylation?
6) The number of ATP that are produced in cellular respiration.
Answer: What is 36-38 ATP?
7) An oxygen-dependent pathway of ATP formation.
Answer: What is aerobic respiration?
8) An oxygen-independent pathway of ATP formation.
Answer: What is anaerobic respiration?
9) The production of 2 ethanol molecules and 2 NADH molecules.
Answer: What is alcoholic fermentation?
10) The production of 2 lactate molecules and 2 NADH molecules.
Answer: What is lactic acid fermentation?
We’re Breaking Up (Mitosis and Meiosis):
1) The phase where chromosomes condense, new microtubules assemble and move one of two pairs of
centrioles to opposite ends of the cell.
Answer: What is prophase?
2) The phase where the attachments between two sister chromatids of each chromosome break and the
microtubules separate the chromosomes to opposite spindle poles.
Answer: What is anaphase?
3) A process in which a parent cell divides its cytoplasm for the two daughter cells.
Answer: What is cytokinesis?
4) The number where there are two chromosomes for each of the 23 pairs (2n).
Answer: What is the diploid number?
5) The type of cell division in which germ cells are produced.
Answer: What is meiosis?
6) Motor proteins attached to the microtubules move the chromosome and split the spindle poles apart.
They tug the chromosomes into position midway between spindle pores.
Answer: What is metaphase I?
7) The chromosomes separate and form 4 daughter nuclei.
Answer: What is telophase II?
8) The number where there are 23 pairs of chromosomes (n).
Answer: What is the haploid number?
9) The process which involves the division of one gamete.
Answer: What is meiosis I?
10) The process which involves the division of two gametes.
Answer: What is meiosis II?
Life at the Core (Chemistry):
1) The fundamental forms of matter that have mass and take up space.
Answer: What are elements?
2) An element that has a different number of neutrons than the original.
Answer: What are isotopes?
3) Bonds between ions of opposite charges.
Answer: What are ionic bonds?
4) The bond between a carboxyl group of one amino acid and the amino group of another amino acid.
Answer: What are peptide bonds?
5) Compounds that have a backbone of one or more carbon atoms to which hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
and other atoms are attached.
Answer: What are organic compounds?
6) Elements that make up 96% of all living things.
Answer: What is COHN?
7) Calcium, phosphorus, sulfur, sodium, magnesium, potassium, chlorine, iron.
Answer: What are trace elements?
8) Monosaccharides, glycerol + 3 fatty acid tails, amino acids, and nucleotides.
Answer: What are monomers?
9) A protein that makes a specific chemical reaction proceed fast by lowering the activation energy of
the reaction.
Answer: What are enzymes?
10) The energy required to start a reaction.
Answer: What is activation energy?
No end to the levels (Organization and Scientific Method):
1) Subatomic particle, atoms, molecule, organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system, multi-cellular
organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere.
Answer: What are the levels of organization?
2) Smallest unit of an element.
Answer: What are atoms?
3) Organized conjunction of cells and substances functioning together for a specific purpose.
Answer: What are tissues?
4) Observe, hypothesize, predict, test, and repeat.
Answer: What is the Scientific Method?
5) A group of individuals of the same species occupying the same area.
Answer: What is a population?
6) A community and its physical environment.
Answer: What is an ecosystem?
7) Populations of all species occupying the same area.
Answer: What is a community?
8) Protons, neutrons and electrons.
Answer: What are subatomic particles?
9) Two or more atoms bonded together.
Answer: What is a molecule?
10) The organization of all regions of the Earth and atmosphere that sustain life.
Answer: What is a biosphere?
Stuck in Jail (Cells):
1) The part of a microscope that supports the tube and connects it to the base.
Answer: What is the arm?
2) A cell that has a membrane-bound nuclei and organelles.
Answer: What is C6H12O6?
3) Protein-synthesizing organelles found in the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
Answer: What are ribosomes?
4) Modifies polypeptide chains into mature systems; sorts and ships proteins and lipids for secretion or
use inside of cell.
Answer: What is the Golgi Body?
5) Control center of the cell, contains genetic material.
Answer: What is the nucleus?
6) Sacs that store food, enzymes, waste and water and is a type of sac that is present in plants.
Answer: What are central vacuoles?
7) Membranous sacs that contain digestive enzymes.
Answer: What are lysosomes?
8) Structure of cell, made up of microtubules and microfilaments.
Answer: What is the cytoskeleton?
9) Have a 9+2 microtubule configuration.
Answer: What are cilia (or flagella)?
10) A cell that swells up as water would move down the concentration gradient into the cell causing it to
expand.
Answer: What are hypertonic cells?
Nobody’s the same (DNA and Replication):
1) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
Answer: What is DNA?
2) Carbon base has the hydroxide (OH) group attached to it.
Answer: What is RNA?
3) The complement of cytosine.
Answer: What is guanine?
4) The area where the ladder unzips and the DNA starts splitting into two.
Answer: What is the replication fork?
5) Small sections of DNA produced during DNA replication that are eventually joined together forming a
new stand of DNA.
Answer: What are Okazaki fragments?
6) The strand that is the complement to the sense strand and is a template used for the RNA.
Answer: What is the anti-sense strand?
7) A protein that makes the mRNA more stable.
Answer: What is the MG cap (or methyl guanasine)?
8) The strand that goes from 5’ to 3’ downwards or the opposite direction of the leading strand.
Answer: What is the lagging strand?
9) The process of copying DNA to RNA by an enzyme.
Answer: What is transcription?
10) The enzyme that copies DNA to RNA.
Answer: What is RNA polymerase?
It’s in your Genes (Genetics):
1) The person known as the “father” of modern genetics.
Answer: Who is Gregor Mendel?
2) The kind of trait that are displayed over recessive traits.
Answer: What are dominant traits?
3) A law where all alleles are broken up randomly.
Answer: What is the Law of Independent Assortment?
4) When a trait is not completely dominant over another and yields a combined phenotype.
Answer: What is incomplete dominance?
5) A situation where the genotype is comprised of two dominant alleles.
Answer: What is co-dominance?
6) Traits that are carried only by males or only by females.
Answer: What are sex-linked traits?
7) A chart that shows all the phenotypes for an organism and its ancestors.
Answer: What is a pedigree?
8) A law where in each sperm or egg, you will only have one allele for a specific characteristic.
Answer: What is the Law of Segregation?
9) The type of blood that is a universal donor.
Answer: What is O type blood?
10) A disease in which there are 47 chromosomes with the extra being in the group #21.
Answer: What is Down Syndrome?
The Survival of the Fittest (Evolution):
1) Genetic change in a line of descent; a change in traits in a population often times over a long period
of time.
Answer: What is evolution?
2) The outcome of differences in survival and reproduction among individuals; the organisms with the
best adaptations to an environment will be able to pass on their traits most successfully.
Answer: What is natural selection?
3) The process of becoming better suited to the environment, particularly specific environmental
conditions.
Answer: What is adaptation?
4) Embryonic similarities, observed natural selection, homology, fossil record, vestigial structures.
Answer: What are evidences of evolution?
5) Many organisms have adapted to the same environment with the homologous structures.
Answer: What is Homology?
6) Evidences of past structures still remain in some organisms, indicating that they had radically different
structures before they adapted to their environment.
Answer: What are vestigial structures?
7) The evolutionary process by which new species are formed.
Answer: What is speciation?
8) The Geospiza adapted to different environments by growing different beaks for improved hunting.
Answer: What is observed natural selection?
9) There are no transitional fossils meaning that there are no firm connections between today’s animals
and their ancestors.
Answer: What is fossil record?
10) The development of opposable thumbs.
Answer: What is adaptation?
Those Random Annoying Questions:
1) The field of biology that deals with organizing, identifying and naming species.
Answer: What is taxonomy?
2) The old kingdom which was comprised of Eubacteria and Archaebacteria in the old 5 kingdom system.
Answer: What is the Monera Kingdom?
3) The process by which energy is absorbed by gases in the atmosphere called greenhouse gases.
Answer: What is the greenhouse effect?
4) The melting of ice in various places of the world such as the Arctic areas for example the North Pole.
Answer: What is global warming?
5) The main method by which bacteria reproduce where DNA is copied and the cell splits into two cells.
Answer: What is binary fission?
6) The synthetic process by which monomers are covalently linked.
Answer: What is condensation?
7) A molecule that is amphipathic (means having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic properties).
Answer: What is a phospholipid molecule?
8) A tool that allows a user to determine the species of an organism.
Answer: What is a dichotomous key?
9) The type of succession that occurs when there is no soil.
Answer: What is primary succession?
10) The name of the Biology Teacher who has taught us for the 2009-2010 HNS Biology Class who is a
pain in the ass, but is an awesome teacher regardless and will help us get an A on the final by making us
make up 100 Jeopardy questions.
Answer: Who is Christopher Trefz?