Jeopardy Questions
Daniel Vaysburd
6/8/10
Format is easiest to hardest, and some topics have more questions than others. There are 7 topics and 100 questions in total.
A mix of Biology and Chemistry (Biochemistry) – 24 Questions
An example of a nucleic acid. What is DNA, RNA?
An example of a carbohydrate. What are starches and sugars?
The negative particle in an atom. What is an electron?
An example of a polar molecule. What is water?
An enzyme is this type of macromolecule. What is a protein?
A function of carbohydrates. What is short term energy storage?
Atoms with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons? What are isotopes?
The subunit of a carbohydrate. What is a monosaccharide?
The four organic macromolecules. What are proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates?
The subunit of a nucleic acid. What is a nucleotide?
Two bases of DNA which are purines, and two bases which are pyrimidines. What are Adenine and Guanine, and Thymine and Cytosine?
Three examples of substances classified as lipids. What are fats, oils, and wax?
The two particles in the nucleus of an atom. What are protons and neutrons?
The number of hydrogen bonds between A & T on DNA. Are there two?
The subunit of a lipid. What are fatty acids and glycerols?
The subunit of a protein. What is an amino acid?
An example of an enzyme substrate unit. What is lactase?
An example of a covalently bonded molecule and an ionically bonded molecule. What are water and salt?
An example of dehydration synthesis. What is the union of glucose and fructose to form sucrose?
An example of hydrolysis. What is the splitting of sucrose into glucose and fructose?
What a quaternary protein is made of. What is a tertiary protein with a definite shape?
Three components of a nucleotide. What is a phosphate, a nitrogen base, and a 5-carbon sugar?
An example of a protein with alpha helix protein structure. What is hemoglobin?
Three functions of a protein. What is providing structural support, help in chemical reactions, and pumping molecules in and out of cells?
Behold, the cell! (The Cell) – 20 Questions
The central vacuole of a plant cell mainly stores this. What is water?
A prokaryotic cell lacks one of these. What is a nucleus?
Almost all species of large animals are, What are eukaryotes?
The function of exocytosis. What is the release of waste particles?
The control center of a cell. What is the nucleus?
The organelle which acts like the shipping department of a factory. What are golgi bodies?
Osmosis is the diffusion of this substance. What is water?
The function of the mitochondria. What is creating ATP from glucose?
The semi-fluid substance between the cell membrane and the nucleus. What is the cytoplasm?
The definition of diffusion. What is the movement of a substance from a higher concentration to a lower concentration?
The parts of the cell made of protein whose function is to support the cell and help it move. What are microtubules and microfilaments?
Happens to an animal cell in a hypotonic solution. Does it expand and have a high chance of exploding?
The organelle which contains digestive enzymes for breaking down stuff. What are lysosomes?
A freshwater cell is placed in salt water. The cell is in this type of environment, What is hypertonic?
An example of a prokaryotic cell. What is bacteria?
The two types of molecules that make up the cell membrane. What are proteins and phospholipids?
Three organelles or cell structures only found in plant, and not animal cells. What is the cell wall, the chloroplast, and the vacuole?
What plasmolysis refers to. What is the ‘splitting’ of the cell membrane?
What a phospholipid is made of. A phosphate non-polar head and a polar tail.
Something that is found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. What are cell membranes, cytoplasms, DNA, RNA, and vacuoles?
Making Use of the Sun’s Light (Photosynthesis) – 9 Questions
Out of AMP, ADP, ATP, the one that contains the most energy. What is ATP?
The type of organisms which use photosynthesis to make their own food. What are autotrophs?
The organelle where photosynthesis takes place. What is chlorophyll?
The two reactants of photosynthesis. What are carbon dioxide and water?
The two products of photosynthesis. What are oxygen and glucose?
The green pigment is called this. What is chlorophyll?
Waters role in photosynthesis. What is providing H+ for the Electron Transport Chain?
The two products of the light dependent reaction which are recycled during the calvin cycle. What are NADPH and ATP?
The process where plants make food from sunlight energy. What is Photosynthesis?
Gaining Useful Energy (Cellular Respiration) – 9 Questions
The two products of cellular respiration. What are ATP and Carbon Dioxide?
After glycolysis, the two processes which make up cellular respiration. What are the Kreb’s cycle and the Electron Transport Chain?
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place. What is the mitochondria?
The two products of cellular respiration. What are ATP and carbon dioxide?
Glucose is broken down into two pyruvates in this process. What is glycolysis?
The two types of fermentation and the products produced by each. What is alcoholic fermentation with ethanol, NADP+ and what is lactic acid fermentation with lactic acid, NADP+?
This breaks off from ATP to release energy and create ADP. What is the phosphate group?
Oxygens role in the Electron Transport System. What is creating water with the H+ ions to balance out the chemical equation?
Three products of the Krebs cycle. What are FADH, NADPH, and ATP?
Time to Divide (Mitosis) – 11 Questions
Out of mitosis and meiosis, the one that is considered asexual reproduction. What is mitosis?
Out of mitosis and meiosis, the one that produces two identical daughter cells. What is mitosis?
The order of the stages of mitosis. What is interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telephase?
Phase some people exclude when listing the phases of mitosis. What is interphase?
The stage where DNA is replicated. What is Interphase (Specifically S Phase)?
The stage where sister chromatids pull apart to opposite ends of the cell. What is anaphase?
The stage where chromatin material condenses to become visible chromosomes? What is prophase?
What mitosis literally means or refers to. What is the splitting of the nucleus?
When cytokinesis occurs during the cell cycle. What come after telophase?
The three stages within interphase. What are the G1, S, and G2 phases?
The reason why cells must be so small. If they are too big, the surface area to volume ratio will not allow the cell to pump out wastes and pump in nutrients.
More Division… (Meiosis )– 6 Questions
The name of the cells produced by meiosis. What are sperm, egg, and haploid cells?
Out of mitosis and meiosis, the one that produces haploid cells. What is meiosis?
Chromosomes identical in size and shape. What are autosomes?
The stage in meiosis where segregation of alleles takes place. What is anaphase I?
The stage in meiosis where independent assortment takes place. What is anaphase I?
The function of meiosis. What is producing a cell with only half the chromosomes, in order to create a more diverse second generation?
Heredity! (Genetics & Protein Synthesis) – 21 Questions
The molecule of inheritance. What is DNA?
The four bases of DNA. What are A, T, C, and G?
The type of mutation where a piece of chromosome is lost. What is deletion?
What C bonds to on DNA. What is G?
What T bonds to on DNA. What is T?
The ‘father’ of genetics. Who is Gregor Mendel?
Different forms of a gene are called this. What are recombinants or mutations?
The organelle where translation takes place. What is the ribosome?
If you cross two heterozygous individuals for 1 trait, the expected phenotypic ratio is, What is 1 homozygous dominant, 2 heterozygous, 1 homozygous recessive?
If you cross one heterozygous and one homozygous recessive individual for 1 trait, the expected phenotypic ratio is, What is 1 heterozygous, 1 homozygous recessive?
The disease caused by having 3 #21 chromosomes. What is Down Syndrome?
A disease caused by having an autosomal recessive allele. What is sickle cell anemia?
The type of inheritance when neither allele is dominant and so there is a blending in the heterozygous condition. What is co-dominance?
What makes certain genes linked. What happens if they are near each other or on the same chromosome?
When chromosomes fail to separate properly during meiosis, the result is this mutation. What is nondisjunction?
The genetic cause of hemophilia. What is a recessive sex-linked gene?
Two examples of sex-linked traits in humans. What are color blindness and hemophilia?
An example of a trait that shows co-dominance. What is a speckled chicken? (black and white feathers)
Sickle cell anemia is caused by this type of mutation. What is a point mutation?
What the law of segregation states. What is: two forms of each gene are segregated during the formation of reproductive cells.
The difference between monosomy and trisomy. What are 1 chromosome and 3 chromosomes?