Game: Prove You're the Best Biologist!

Prove You're the Best Biologist!

Do you think you have true potential as a biologist? If so, then this game will be the perfect opportunity to showcase your expertise! Suited for students of all levels, from GCSE to A Level to IB to... every other qualification out there! :tongue:

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Answer the question in the post directly before your own

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updated as of 06/09 at 14:46

Question 1: how do hot temperatures denature enzymes?

(edited 6 years ago)

Reply 1

jadder1224

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Original post by Amefish

Prove You're the Best Biologist!

Do you think you have true potential as a biologist? If so, then this game will be the perfect opportunity to showcase your expertise! Suited for students of all levels, from GCSE to A Level to IB to... every other qualification out there! :tongue:

The rules are simple:

1.

Answer the question in the post directly before your own

2.

Ask a new question for the next poster

If you answer a question correctly, you will gain +1 point. Points will be collected on the leader-board and all answers will be verified by Google :wink:

Leaderboard:
1.
2.
3.

Question 1: how do hot temperatures denature enzymes?

Great game! :smile:

Answer: because they change/break the bonds in the protein.

Question: What bonds are formed between amino acids?

Reply 2

ᒍack

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Original post by jadder1224

Great game! :smile:

Answer: because they change/break the bonds in the protein.

Question: What bonds are formed between amino acids?

Answer: Peptide bonds

Question: What does a flagellum do?

Reply 3

jadder1224

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Original post by ᒍack

Answer: Peptide bonds

Question: What does a flagellum do?

Answer: helps the cell to move (locomotion).

Question: Name the area on an enzyme that a substrate attaches to.

Reply 4

YourGoddamnRight

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Original post by jadder1224

Answer: helps the cell to move (locomotion).

Question: Name the area on an enzyme that a substrate attaches to.

Answer: Active site.

Question: What is the balanced symbol equation for aerobic respiration?

Reply 5

jadder1224

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Original post by YourGoddamnRight

Answer: Active site.

Question: What is the balanced symbol equation for aerobic respiration?

Answer: C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + (energy)

Question: When does anaerobic respiration occur?

Reply 6

ImagineCats

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Original post by jadder1224

Answer: C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + (energy)

Question: When does anaerobic respiration occur?

Answer: When there's no oxygen!!!!!! c grade bio yea

Q: Why do some people not wanna eat quorn/myoprotein?? Many answers

Reply 7

Kallisto

Entertainment Forum Helper

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Answer: Anaerobic respiration occurs when oxygen is not involve in respiratory chain.

Question: What an organell in plants is responsible for photosynthesis?

Reply 8

aytuiq

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Original post by Kallisto

Answer: Anaerobic respiration occurs when oxygen is not involve in respiratory chain.

Question: What an organell in plants is responsible for photosynthesis?

Answer : Chloroplast

Question : Which of the following is also known as the Calvin cycle : the light-independent reaction or light-dependent reactions?

Reply 9

Blue_Cow

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Original post by aytuiq

Answer : Chloroplast

Question : Which of the following is also known as the Calvin cycle : the light-independent reaction or light-dependent reactions?

Light independent

Give two applications of PCR

Reply 10

aytuiq

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Original post by Blue_Cow

Light independent

Give two applications of PCR

Answer : 1.Genetic fingerprinting for use in forensics
2. Research - replicated DNA can be used in experiments e.g genetic engineering of bacteria

Question : Name the two types of bonding found in cellulose

Reply 11

jadder1224

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Original post by aytuiq

Answer : 1.Genetic fingerprinting for use in forensics
2. Research - replicated DNA can be used in experiments e.g genetic engineering of bacteria

Question : Name the two types of bonding found in cellulose

Answer: glycosidic and hydrogen bonding.

Question: what is an enzyme?

Reply 12

Tuffyandtab

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Original post by jadder1224

Answer: glycosidic and hydrogen bonding.

Question: what is an enzyme?

Answer: A biological catalyst, meaning they speed up metabolic reactions
Question: What is an operon?

Reply 13

aytuiq

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Original post by jadder1224

Answer: glycosidic and hydrogen bonding.

Question: what is an enzyme?

There are not only glycosidic bonds and hydrogen bonds - there is also bonding between carbon and hydrogen - the answer should be covalent bonding (which includes glycosidic bonds), sorry to be pedantic.

Answer : An operon is the section of DNA that an oppressor binds to.
Question : Why is/should an open flame kept nearby when inoculating culture media with a microorganism?

(edited 6 years ago)

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PeetaRJ

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Original post by aytuiq

There are not only glycosidic bonds and hydrogen bonds - there is also bonding between carbon and hydrogen - the answer should be covalent bonding (which includes glycosidic bonds), sorry to be pedantic.

Answer : A biological catalyst.
Question : Why is/should an open flame kept nearby when inoculating culture media with a microorganism?

Answer: To prevent airborne microbes from coming in contact with the culture you're working on the surface.
Question: How does the countercurrent system work?

Reply 15

Eulogy

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Original post by PeetaRJ

Answer: To prevent airborne microbes from coming in contact with the culture you're working on the surface.
Question: How does the countercurrent system work?

flow in opposite directions (next to each other) making sure there's always a high conc. gradient
How do pathogens become resistant to antibotics

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QuentinM

Universities Forum Helper

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Original post by Eulogy

flow in opposite directions (next to each other) making sure there's always a high conc. gradient
How do pathogens become resistant to antibotics

A: Bacteria mutate rapidly due to poor DNA replication error detection (meaning mutations can occur every thousand bases or so)-so mutations can occur rapidly that change the target proteins to not respond to targets anymore.

(additionally some gain of function mutations can produce enzymes like beta-lactamases which degrade drugs like penicillin)

Q: What is the difference between behavioural and genomic imprinting?

Reply 17

Amefish

OP

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Original post by QuentinM

A: Bacteria mutate rapidly due to poor DNA replication error detection (meaning mutations can occur every thousand bases or so)-so mutations can occur rapidly that change the target proteins to not respond to targets anymore.

(additionally some gain of function mutations can produce enzymes like beta-lactamases which degrade drugs like penicillin)

Q: What is the difference between behavioural and genomic imprinting?

Forgive me (and please tell me) if I'm wrong, I had to research this. Behavioural imprinting is when an organism is exposed to an object in early life, becoming attached to it, whereas genomic imprinting is a type of epigenetic change where either the mother or father's copy of a gene is silenced, giving the offspring the remaining trait.

Q: What are the components needed for PCR?