Science Trivia Challenge

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Science Trivia Challenge

• Genetics and Cell Division

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Directions/Rules

• 1. Choose a category and point value under one
  of the six categories.
• 2. You will be given the answer, you must
  provide the question.
• 3. If you answer incorrectly or pass, the
  question will go to the next player on the
  opposing team.
• 4. Jeopardy questions come from the test, feel
  free to take notes.
• At the end of the game, the team with the most
  points wins.

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Play Board
Punnett Squares
Blood Types
Chromosomes Genes
Vocab. Misc.
Meiosis
Mitosis
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100
Answer when the spindle fibers fade and a new
nuclear membrane forms around each set of
chromosomes
Question What is telophase?
5
200
Answer when the nuclear membrane disappears and
the chromosomes become visible
Question What is prophase?
6
300
Answer when the cell appears inactive but is
making new chromosome material
Question What is interphase?
7
400
Answer when spindle fibers form and chromosomes
move to the middle of the cell
Question What is metaphase?
8
500
Answer when each centromere divides and the
separated strands of chromosomes move toward
opposite ends of the cell
Question What is anaphase?
9
100
Answer the number of chromosomes in a sperm cell
Question What is 23 single?
10
200
Answer meiosis is this type of reproduction
Question What is sexual reproduction?
11
300
Answer a trait linked to a gene on a sex
chromosome
Question What is a sex-linked trait?
12
400
Answer the cell that forms in fertilization
Question What is a zygote?
13
500
Answer two examples of sex-linked traits
Question What are hemophilia and color-blindness?
14
100
Answer they are hidden by dominant traits
Question What are recessive traits?
15
200
Answer the physical appearance of the offspring
Question What is a phenotype?
16
300
Answer the possible genotypes of two hybrid tall
plants
Question What are TT, Tt, and tt?
17
400
Answer the possible phenotypes of two hybrid
tall plants
Question What are 75 tall and 25 short?
18
500
Question Father- Type B Mother- Type O Baby-
Type O. Could this be the babys father?
Answer Yes, if the father is hybrid (B0)
19
100
Answer the four blood types
Question What are A, B, AB, and O?
20
200
Answer the recessive gene for blood type
Question What is O?
21
300
Answer possible blood type(s) of a cross between
a purebred A mom and a purebred B dad
Question What is AB?
22
400
Answer possible blood type(s) of a cross between
two hybrid parents with blood type B
Question What are B and O?
23
500
Answer the organism after which the Rh factor
was named (or where it was first found)
Question What is a Rhesus monkey?
24
100
Answer shaped like a double spiral ladder with
rungs
Question What is DNA?
25
200
Answer the number of chromosomes in a normal
human body cell
Question What is 46? (or 23 pairs)
26
300
Answer these are made of DNA and make up
chromosomes
Question What are genes?
27
400
Answer where chromosomes are found
Question What is in the nucleus of a cell?
28
500
Answer the four bases of DNA
Question What are adenine, cytosine, thymine,
and guanine?
29
100
Answer the plants Mendel studied
Question What are pea plants?
30
200
Answer the basic unit of all living things
Question What is a cell?
31
300
Answer the scientific study of heredity
Question What is genetics?
32
400
Answer having one dominant gene and one
recessive gene (or two unlike genes for a trait)
Question What is hybrid?
33
500
Answer the name for the pinching (division) of
the cytoplasm
Question What is cytokinesis?