Biology Trivia

Welcome back class time to hit the lab. Hi, I'm your host, Brian Rollins and this is the dorky geeky nerdy trivia podcast. This is our second summer school episode where we focus on more academic topics last week. We covered mathematics this week. We're going to hit biology. It's a wide-ranging topic. So expect a wide range of questions. As always we'll have Three rounds of 10 questions each I'll read the question. You'll have a short timer and then I'll give you the answer if you're looking for scoring rules and score sheets, head over to dorky geeky nerdy.com. / rules while you're there, check out our books of the week and drop us a note to say hi. Okay, class. Put the Frog back in its tank. It's time to start. The dorky round. Number one. The process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy is called what? Photosynthesis. Number two, the first mammal clone was what type of animal. Dolly was a domestic sheep. She was cloned in 1996. Number three, humans. Have how many chromosomes? 46, or 23 pairs. Number four. What chemical gives leaves their green color. Chlorophyll. Number 5. What is the term for the creation of Light by living organisms? Bioluminescence. Number 6, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for what disease in 1955. Polio. Number 7, frogs and salamanders belong to what group whose name means both kinds of life. Amphibians. Number 8, canis lupus familiaris is more commonly known as what. That would be Man's Best Friend. The dog. Number 9 paleontology is the study of what. It's the study of fossils. Number 10, sharks and Rays have skeletons made of what material. Cartilage. The geeky round. Number one, Louis Pasteur. Created the first two vaccines. For what? Two diseases? Rabies and Anthrax. He's also responsible for the process named after him, pasteurization. Number two, how many ranks are there in the hierarchy of biological classification. There are eight. Domain kingdom phylum, class order, family, genus and species. Number 3, DNA is short for what? Deoxyribonucleic acid. Number four. What is the most common element in the human body? Oxygen, it makes up almost 63 percent of our bodies. Number 5 people with sickle cell, anemia are more likely to be resistant to what disease. the mutation that causes Sickle Cell also, makes that person immune to malaria Number 6, water bears are an informal name for What creatures? Tardy guards, their eight-legged, water-dwelling micro animals. Number 7 in 2019, horseshoe crabs were added to what class alongside mites and ticks. Arachnids. Number eight, Forest Tundra, grassland and desert are all types of what. Their biomes. Number 9, whales dolphins and porpoises belong to what group? Cetaceans. Number 10. What disease was certified as eradicated in December 1979. Thanks to widespread. Adoption of the vaccine smallpox no longer exists in the wild. All right, bio break. Time for the book of the week. This week's book is the Tangled Tree. By David Coleman in the mid 1970s scientists began using DNA sequences to re-examine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startling Discovery to come out of this new field. The study of life's diversity and relatedness at the molecular level is horizontal Gene transfer or H, GT, or The movement of genes across species lines, it turns out that H GT has been widespread and important. For instance, we now know that roughly eight percent of the human genome arrived, not through traditional inheritance, from directly ancestral forms, but sideways by viral infection, a type of HGT. Now in the Tangled, tree Quang ninh explains how molecular studies of evolution have brought Darling recognitions about the Tangled tree of life including where we humans? Fit upon it. Thanks to new technologies, such as crisper. We now have the ability to alter even our genetic composition through sideways insertions as Nature, has long been doing the Tangled. Tree is a brilliant guide to are transformed understanding of evolution of life's history, and of our own human nature. You can find links to this book and any other book of the week at At dorky geeky nerdy.com / book. Okay. Time to get back to work. The nerdy round. Number one organisms that live in physically or Geo chemically dangerous. Places like a geyser or hot spring are called what? Extremophiles. Number two, the study of fungi is called what? Mycology. Number three. What are the three domains? Archaea bacteria, and eukaryotes. Number for what type of cell does not have a true nucleus. Prokaryotic as opposed to a eukaryotic cell. That does have a true nucleus. Number five, when the bird named Martha died, on September 1st 1914, what species became extinct? The passenger pigeon. Number 6 by mass. What is the largest living organism on the planet? Aspen tree. Colonies are one large. Organism the single largest is located in fishlake. National Forest in Utah. Number 7, what is the name of the biochemical cycle by which aerobic organisms convert food into energy? The citric acid cycle or the Krebs cycle. Number eight animals from the form of CID, a family are more, commonly known as what. That would be the bane of your picnic ants. Number 9 ichthyology, is the study of what? Fish. number 10, cytology phenology and phyto, sociology are all branches of what science Botany, or the study of plants. And that's the bill class. I hope you enjoyed our second summer school. Episode, Wednesday will be our usual fare. But next Saturday will feature our third summer school episode, speaking of which, here's your clue, What playwright born in 1564 gave us such delightful insults as thine face is not worth sun burning and thou art unfit for any place. But he'll Yeah, it's time to give the theater Geeks. Something to sink their teeth into I'm your host Brian Rollins. You can hit me up at my website, the voices. In my head.com, you can find more episodes of this show at dorky geeky nerdy.com class dismissed. And thanks for listening.