Contest 1

1. I am a branch of biology or medicine

2. The history of my study is scattered among a number of other disciplines,
especially zoology
3. As a biological discipline, my scope is not determined by the organism or
environment in question but by their way of life
4. This means I form a synthesis of other disciplines, and draw on techniques
from fields such as cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology,
immunology, and genetics
5. I am the branch of biology or medicine concerned with the study of parasitic
organisms
WHO AM I?Parasitology,
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Contest 2
1. I am a dark green to yellowish brown fluid,
2. I am composed of acids and salts, phospholipids, cholesterol, pigments,
water, and electrolyte chemicals
3. My total solution is slightly alkaline with a pH of about 7 to 8
4. I am produced by the liver of most vertebrates,
5. In humans, I am produced continuously by the liver (liver bile), and stored
and concentrated in the gallbladder.

WHO AM I? Bile or gall

Contest 3
1. In colorimetry, I am a perceived matching of colors with different
(nonmatching) spectral power distributions
2. I am not the same concept as segmentation
3. Because segmentation can be confined only to ectodermally derived tissue,
(e.g., tapeworms.)
4. In zoology and developmental biology, I am the property of having repeated
segments, as in annelids
5. I am far more important biologically since I result in metameres, also called
somites, that play a critical role in advanced locomotion

WHO AM I? Metamerism
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Contest 4
1. My concept is useful in some experimental organisms such as fruit flies
2. Geneticists use me to refer to the individuals with the common or 'normal'
version of a characteristic
3. Identifying me in populations is critical to understanding how that
population is changing.
4. My alleles are indicated with a "+" superscript, for example w+
5. I am used to refer to the phenotype of the typical form of a species as it
occurs in nature.

WHO AM I? Wild type (WT)

Contest 5
1. I am a dynamic organ found in mammalian skin
2. I am made up of different cell types, each with distinct functions
3. My position and distribution changes over the body
4. For example, I am absent in the skin of the palms and soles
5. But I am abundant in the skin of the scalp, forearms, legs and genitalia
6. I am the sheath of cells and connective tissue which surrounds the root of a
hair.
WHO AM I? Hair follicle
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Contest6
1. My name in Ancient Greek literally means ‘arrangement law’
2. My history dates back to the origin of human language
3. The exact definition of me varies from source to source,
4. But the core of the discipline remains: the conception, naming, and
classification of groups of organisms
5. I am the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on
the basis of shared characteristics.

WHO AM I?Taxonomy
Contest 7
1. The study of me is an integral part of biology
2. People normally confuse me with organisms born with developmental
abnormalities,
3. I am different, because I am not caused by errors during morphogenesis
4. Again, in a developmental abnormality, the DNA of the organism is
unchanged and the abnormality cannot be passed on to progeny.
5. I am an organism or a new genetic character resulting from an instance of
mutation, which is generally an alteration of the DNA sequence of the
genome

WHO AM I? Mutants
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Contest 8

1. My name is in two parts

2. In Botany, the first part of my namedenotes the plant tissues which conduct
water, sap, and nutrients in flowering plants, ferns, and their relatives.
3. The second part refers to photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae
4. I am used to refer to those land plants that have lignified tissues for
conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.
5. Some of my examplesare the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms
and angiosperms

WHO AM I? Vascular plants

Contest 9
1. I am a prevalent phenomenon in nature
2. I am a kind of symbiotic relationship
3. I can exist between two species of animals or plants
4. But I am widespread in the animal kingdom
5. I am a major aspect of evolutionary ecology
6. I am a non-mutual relationship between two organisms in which one benefits
at the expense of the other.
WHO AM I? Parasitism
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Contest 10

1. People sometimes mention my name, when they want to refer to an area of

land, smaller than a forest that is covered with growing trees
2. I am an organic material with many distinct characteristics
3. People have used me for thousands of years for many purposes
4. I am sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees
5. Ihave a long history of being used as fuel, which continues to this day,
mostly in rural areas of the world
6. In a living tree I perform a support function, enabling woody plants to grow
large or to stand up by themselves

WHO AM I? Wood
 Contest 11

1. In zoology, I am a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some

species of animals, most of them being invertebrates
2. In animal anatomy, I usually occur in one or more pairs.
3. Many molluscs have one form of me or another.
4. The most familiar are those of the pulmonate land snails, which usually
have two sets of me on the head
5. I am normally used for grasping and feeding
6. I am many of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile
processes borne by invertebrate animals chiefly on the head or around the
mouth

WHO ARE WE? Tentacle

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Contest 12
1. Our name comes from two Greek words that literally mean "sac-like" or
"pouch-like".
2. We are membrane-bound structures embedded in the stroma of chloroplast
3. We can be purified from plant cells using a combination of differential and
gradient centrifugation
4. Within the chloroplast, we frequently form stacks of disks referred to as
grana
5. We are the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis.

WHO AR WE? Thylakoids

Contest 13
1. I am one of the three major cell types in plants
2. My cells are variously shaped but are characterized by thin walls and remain
alive at functional maturity.
3. Theyare unspecialized but carry out photosynthesis and cellular respiration
and can store food;
4. The cells are found in the fleshy tissue of fruits and seeds, photosynthetic
cells of leaves, and the vascular system.
5. The cells perform numerous functions which include photosynthesis,
storage, bulk of herbaceous stem tissues, and lateral transport in woody
stems.
WHO AM I?Parenchyma
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Contest 14
1. My concept was first formulated in the 1920s by a Russian geneticist
(Aleksandr Sergeevich Serebrovskii)
2. My name is in two parts
3. The first part refers to the basic physical and functional unit of heredity.
4. And the second part refers to a small area of still water, typically one formed
naturally.
5. I am the stock of different genes in an interbreeding population.

WHO AM I? Gene Pool

Contest 15
1. We are marine animals, although few of us inhabit freshwater.
2. We have a complex life cycle which includes both sexual and asexual
phases,
3. We are eaten by humans in certain cultures, being considered a delicacy in
some Asian countries
4. We are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells
and trailing tentacles
5. Our tentacles are armed with stinging cells and may be used to capture prey
and defend against predators.

WHO ARE WE? Jellyfish / jellies / sea jellies

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Contest 16
1. I am a significant global ecological and environmental problem with far
reaching consequences on socio-economic and political conditions
2. I have played a significant role in human history, contributing to the collapse
of several large empires
3. I am caused by a variety of factors, such as through climate change and
through the overexploitation of soil through human activities
4. I often cause rural lands to become unable to support the same sized
populations that previously lived there
5. I am a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land
becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as
vegetation and wildlife
WHO AM I? Desertification
Contest 17
1. I am an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
2. In mathematics, I am a fixed reference line for the measurement of
coordinates.
3. In anatomy, I am a type of bone
4. My most distinctive characteristic is the strong odontoid process
5. I am the second cervical vertebra (C2) of the spine

WHO AM I? Axis
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Contest 18
1. In general sense, I pertain to the deviations or divergences in a set or a
group.
2. I may be defined by any change in some quantity due to change in another.
3. I am alsoa change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level,
typically within certain limits.
4. In organisms, I am normally shown in physical appearance,behaviour, or
other obvious or measurable characters.
5. In genetics, I am used to refer to an individual that possesses characteristics
different from the others of the same kind

WHO AM I? Variation
Contest 19
1. My name in Latin literally means standing same
2. I am brought about by a natural resistance to change in the optimal
conditions, and equilibrium is maintained by many regulatory mechanisms
3. A familiar example of my regulation in a mechanical system is the action of
a room-temperatureregulator, or thermostat
4. In biology, I am the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions
maintained by living systems
5. One of my most familiar examples is body temperature control in humans
6. I am any self-regulating process by which an organism tends to maintain
stabilitywhile adjusting to conditions that are best for its survival.

WHO AM I?Homeostasis
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Contest 20
1. We are complex organic substances present in living cells
2. Studies conducted on us havepaved the way for the development of
biochemistry, molecular biology, biotechnology and modern medicine
3. We were named for our initial discovery within the nucleus
4. Although first discovered within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, we are now
known to be found in all life forms
5. We are linear polymers (chains) of nucleotides
.
WHO ARE WE?Nucleic acids
Contest 21
1. I completed my elementary school years in Scotland, despite losing my
father while still only seven years old.
2. I went on to London to complete my schooling at the Royal Polytechnic
Institution
3. At the encouragement of my older brother, a physician, I went on to become
a doctor.
4. Even though I had a solid reputation as a great researcher, my lab and
workspace were often very disorganized.
5. This actually led to the discovery of penicillin.

WHO AM I. (Alexander) Fleming

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Contest 22
1. My name was coined by the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess in 1875
2. Although my concept has a geological origin, it is an indication of the effect
of both Charles Darwin and Matthew F. Maury on the Earth sciences.
3. I am postulated to have evolved, beginning with a process of biogenesis
4. In a general sense, I am any closed, self-regulating system containing
ecosystems.
5. I am historically and most commonly defined as that part of the Earth in
which living organisms exist.

WHO AM I? Biosphere
Contest 23
1. I ama rare blood clotting genetic disorder
2. Although I am passed down from parents to children, about 1/3 of my cases
are caused by a spontaneous mutation in a gene.
3. The gene responsible for my condition is carried on the X chromosome
4. My disorder was first reported in the medical literature in 1952 in a patient
with the name Stephen Christmas.
5. I am therefore known by the eponym Christmas disease
6. I am the second most common type of hemophilia.

WHO AM I? HemophiliaB
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Contest 24
1. I am a branching diagram composed of nodes and branches.
2. I have been used in evolutionary biology since the time of Charles Darwin.
3. My idea arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower
into higher forms of life
4. I am useful for organizing knowledge of biological diversity, for structuring
classifications, and for providing insight into events that occurred during
evolution
5. I am a diagram that shows the evolutionary relationships among biological
species based on similarities and differences in genetic or physical traits or
both
WHO AM I?Phylogenetic tree / phylogeny
Contest 25
1. I am a congenital disorder that affects people of all ethnic backgrounds
2. People living with my condition are at risk of isolation because the condition
is often misunderstood.
3. I am characterized in humans by the complete or partial absence of pigment
in the skin, hair and eyes.
4. I am associated with a number of vision defects, such as photophobia
5. I result from inheritance of recessive gene alleles
WHO AM I?Albinism
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Contest 26
1. I am a very important biological process
2. I am widely studied in population ecology
3. I relate directly to population regulation, habitat quality, and connectivity of
local populations
4. All species go through my process to some extent, in part because resources
become limited locally as populations grow
5. I therefore increase with population size or density
6. In population studies, I take two separate forms: emigration and
immigration

WHO AM I? Dispersal
Contest 27
1. I am a biological process
2. My name does not stem from its current usage in evolutionary biology but
rather dates back to the early 17th century,
3. It was then used to indicate a relation between design and function or how
something fits into something else.
4. I usually develop in response to a change in the organism’s habitat.
5. I am the process by which an animal or plant species becomes fitted to its
environment
6. I am any change in the structure or functioning of successive generations of
a population that makes it better suited to its environment

WHO AM I? Adaptation,
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Contest 28
1. I am a word that is used in disciplines such as Mathematics, English and
biology
2. I may be used to refer to the type of Down syndrome that is caused by
rearranged chromosome material.
3. In conservation biology, I am the transport and release of plants or animals
from one habitat to another
4. In genetics, I am a chromosomal abnormality caused by rearrangement of
parts between non-homologous chromosomes
5. In plant physiology, I am the movement of carbohydrates from leaves to
other tissues throughout plants via the phloem.

WHO AM I? Translocation
Contest 29
1. I am a dimensionless number used in calculations of basal metabolic rate
(BMR) when estimated from carbon dioxide production.
2. My value gives indication of the type of macronutrients being metabolized
by an organism
3. I can also be used as an indicator of over or underfeeding
4. Underfeeding forces the body to utilize fat stores which will lower my value,
5. While overfeeding, which causes lipogenesis, will increase my value
6. I am calculated from the ratio of carbon dioxide produced by the body to
oxygen consumed by the body.

WHO AM I? Respiratory Quotient / Respiratory Coefficient

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Contest 30
1. I am a structure that is found in both plants and animals
2. Various types of me are non-homologous, differing in their origin, structure,
function, and even chemical composition.
3. In mycology I am used to describe the outer layer of tissue of a mushroom's
basidiocarp, or "fruit body"
4. In invertebrates, notably roundworms and arthropods, I am a multi-layered
structure outside the epidermis
5. In botany, I am a thin waxy, protective layer covering the surface of the
leaves and stems of plants.

WHO AM I? Cuticle
Contest 31
1. My name may be from an old English word, although because this is
conjectured, several major dictionaries simply put my origin as unknown
2. A Greek word was later adopted as the scientific term for me, due chiefly to
the words similarity in sound.
3. I am a disease of growing bone that is unique to children and adolescents
4. Young children may have bowed legs and thickened ankles and wrist
5. I am a rare disorder caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate
which leads to softening and weakening of the bones.

WHO AM I? Rickets
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Contest 32
1. I am formed in both cellular division processes of mitosis and meiosis
2. I may have a sister but not a brother
3. I am formed from chromatin fibres
4. During meiosis, any failure of my sister and I to separate correctly results in
what is known as nondisjunction.
5. I am one of two identical copies of a replicated chromosome.

WHO AM I? Chromatid
Contest 33
1. I am a biological processthat is most noticeable when transpiration is
suppressed and the relative humidity is high
2. I can be used as an assessment tool for pesticide residues in crop plants
3. In herbaceous plants I am the most common evidence of root pressure
4. I usually occur through stoma-like openings in the epidermis called
hydathodes
5. I am the exudation of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of
some vascular plants, such as grasses.
WHO AM I?Guttation
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Contest 34
1. Like many other "inorganic elements" in biological systems, I have become
the subject of much attention by scientists and by the general public
2. My ions contribute to the physiology and biochemistry of organisms and the
cell
3. Some invertebrates use my compounds for building their exoskeleton or
endoskeleton
4. In plants, I am needed to form pectin in the middle lamella of newly formed
cells.
5. My levels in mammals are tightly regulated,with bones acting as the major
storage site.

WHO AM I? Calcium
.Contest 35
1. I am a term that crosses several discipline boundaries, including ecology and
genetics, evolution theory, taxonomy, cytology, and biochemistry
2. In programming language I am the provision of a single interface to entities
of different types
3. In crystallography, I am the ability of a solid to exist in more than one
crystal form
4. In biology, I a special aspect of ‘genetic variation’ and both terms are often
used interchangeably in the literature.
5. I occur when two or more clearly different phenotypes exist in the same
population of a species

WHO AM I? Polymorphism
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Contest 36
1. I am a type of theory
2. I was postulated by Schmidt in 1924
3. The theory was based on hisstudies of shoot apices of angiosperm.
4. This theory is concerned with planes of cell division in the apex.
5. In contrast to apical cell theory and histogen theory, I am applicable only to
shoot apex and not to root.

WHO AM I? Tunica-Corpus Theory