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Are You Smarter Than a Amoeba? Easy Bio-Trivia! 2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 3 times
- The average score is 11 of 15
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What is a sea cucumber? | a marine invertebrate | 100%
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| What are the building blocks of proteins? | amino acids | 100%
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| The name of which life-form is derived from the Latin word for “mushroom” but also applies to yeast and mold? | fungus | 100%
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| What is the name of the dormant state in which an animal’s body temperature decreases and heartbeat and breathing rate slow down? | hibernation | 100%
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| What is the maintenance of a relatively constant internal environment known as? | homeostasis | 100%
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| Who proved that contamination with microorganisms, rather than mere exposure to air, is responsible for food spoilage and disease? | Louis Pasteur | 100%
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| What substance acts as a catalyst for biological reactions in living organisms? | enzyme | 67%
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| Which of these amino acids, first isolated from gelatin, is the simplest? | glycine | 67%
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| Which American biologist and geneticist deduced that the sex of an individual is determined by a particular chromosome? | Nettie Maria Stevens | 67%
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| What is the history of the evolution of a species or group? | phylogeny | 67%
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| Some flagellates are animal-like and some are plantlike, but all belong to which group of organisms? | protozoans | 67%
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| A squid and an octopus are both cephalopods with eight arms, but how is a squid different from an octopus? | a squid has two long tentacles in addition to the eight arms | 33%
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| Which American biologist popularized sociobiology, the study of the genetic basis of the social behaviour of all animals, including humans? | Edward O. Wilson | 33%
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| Embryos grow into the shape of a complete organism via the differentiation of cells, tissues, and organs. What is this process called? | morphogenesis | 33%
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| Chlorella algae has been studied as a food source because it is rich in which nutrients? | proteins | 33%
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