Questions of the Week
(2/22/12)
Each week you will find questions posted here. Be the first in your class to answer one of them correctly, and you will be rewarded with up to 5 bonus points on your next exam. Be sure and include: Name, class period or section, and the number of the question you are attempting to answer. You may keep submitting answers until you get it right with no penalty incurred. Most of these questions can be answered via the internet using a proven search engine or browser. I prefer Google.com so you may wish to use that one also, but more importantly use one that you are familiar with. Your textbook may also help. Check back here often to find hints to assist you if questions go unanswered for more than one week. Email your answer to: kjones@dscc.edu. If for some reason your email is returned as "undeliverable", save it (or retrieve it from "sent items") and try again later. The original time and date of your response will be recorded. Also, do not attach your answer, but rather include it in the text of your email, otherwise it may be blocked by our campus "firewall." GOOD LUCK! and happy hunting.
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Questions already answered by class:
Biol 1110-01:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,16,17,18,19,21,22,23,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,34
Biol 1110-21:
1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,16,17,18,19,23,26,27,28,29,30,31,44
Biol 1120-02:
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,22,24,25,26,27,28,30,33,34,35,37,46
General Biology I
1. What is the largest bird (greatest wingspan), native to North America, that can be found in Tennessee?
2. A man is driving from the east coast to the west in
early autumn. Somewhere in Kansas he notices that on both sides of the
highway is an immense field of a certain cultivated crop. But oddly enough
the plants on the left are green, and the ones to his right are bright yellow.
The crop is all the same age and of the same variety. What is the plant
and the biological phenomenon that he observed.
3. What other famous person was born on the same day, month and year as Abraham Lincoln?
4. What fish native to Tennessee will return to the ocean to spawn?
5. Google this fictitious word: yxczekww and when you find a website that has it, send me google page with the link.
6. Who is Kristen Byrnes and what did she research?
7. How old was she when she published her research?
8. What was the title of her research paper?
9. What is the largest single cell found in the world today?
10. Growing children require 2 more essential amino acids than the 8 required by adults. What are they?
11. What device is used to measure the caloric content of food?
12. This word for a living thing is the both the first and the last (at least in some books)?
13. What is the most abundant organic molecule on Earth?
14. What happened last month, Jan. 27, 2012 at 9:30 our time, that could've been a disaster?
15. How close was it?
16. Find a nonsense word with 5 letters, numbers, symbols (or less) that google will have "no hits" when searched?
17. What book published in 1844 first mentions the concept of evolution, or species changing over time?
18. Who was later found out to be the author?
19. What is Dihydrogen Monoxide and why is it so dangerous?
20. There is a bee hive in a tree on campus next to the LRC parking lot. On warm sunny days (above 50 degrees) you can see them coming and going. Identify the tree species containing the hive.
21. What did the Candiru say when it swam into its human host?
22.Of all the terms (words) in your textbook, which one is alphabetically the last and and also the first?
23. Find a two letter nonsense word composed of letters, numbers, symbols or both that yields "Your search " " did not match any documents" when you google it on the web.
24. Erica and John are standing in the same cow pasture at the same time. Erica looks around and sees the same number of bulls and cows in the field. However, John can see twice as many cows as bulls. How can this be and how many cows and bulls are there in the field?
25. What uses up more calories: running, swimming or walking up stairs?
26. What other 2 animals besides humans and primates, cannot manufacture vitamin C?
27. Name a disease causing agent that can replicate without either RNA or DNA?
28. What angry bovine disease does it cause?
29. What was the first animal to be domesticated?
30. How long ago did this happen?
31. What is DDT and why is it banned?
32. There are hundreds of birds on campus feeding on the holly berries. What species of bird are they?
33. There is another bird species trying to stop them by guarding the hollies and fighting them off. It's known for it's ability to imitate sounds. What species is it?
34. This is currently the largest living dog in the world. Name the breed, his name, and how much he weighs?
35. Give a plausible reason why humans are one of the very few animals where the female experiences menopause well before the maximum life span is reached?
36. You have 10 stacks of gold coins, 10 in each stack, total of 100 coins. One stack is all counterfeit. Real coins weigh 10 grams, bogus coins only 9 grams. The problem is the scale you're using is digital and keeps blowing fuses each time you weigh a coin. You have one fuse left. The real coins are ancient and worth millions. But if you're caught with the bogus coins, when you attempt to pass through customs, you will suffer great turmoil, counterfeiting being a capital offense in Afghanistan. Your plane is waiting. With just one weighing how can you determine which is the counterfeit stack? It can be done, no magic tricks, but how? Your life and great wealth depend on it!
37. What drug induced the spider to have hundreds of offspring, but then it had to leave the web because of a restraining order?
38. What drug induced the spider to build a huge, minimalist, non-functioning web that was useless for capturing prey?
39. What drug caused the spider to rob and kidnap other spiders?
40. What drug induced hammock construction?
41. What color is this number: 1.618.....?
42. Finish the integer sequence out to ten decimal places?
43. What did the Greeks call it?
44. What animal has the car keys in a recent Gortex commercial?
45. The character below is from a famous 60's era sitcom. What metabolic cycle shares his name?
46. Go to this website ( http://www.hotsynch.com/news/painting.htm )and find Charles Darwin amidst hundreds of historical figures.
What is he holding in his hand?
47. What animal is closest to him?
48. What's the animal's name?
49. What did his owner establish?
50. In the same painting find Ms. Parton and tell me why she is famous?
General Biology II
1. What is the largest bird (greatest wingspan), native to North America, that can be found in Tennessee?
2. A man is driving from the east coast to the west in
early autumn. Somewhere in Kansas he notices that on both sides of the
highway is an immense field of a certain cultivated crop. But oddly enough
the plants on the left are green, and the ones to his right are bright yellow.
The crop is all the same age and of the same variety. What is the plant
and the biological phenomenon that he observed.
3. What other famous person was born on the same day, month and year as Abraham Lincoln?
4. What fish native to Tennessee will return to the ocean to spawn?
5. Google this fictitious word: yxczekww and when you find a website that has it, send me the google page showing the website address.
6. Who is Kristen Byrnes and what did she research?
7. How old was she when she published her research?
8. What was the title of her research paper?
9. What is the largest single cell found in the world today?
10. Where would one look to find the largest species in the class Cestoda?
11. What Phylum's species causes trichinosis?
12. What should you avoid eating if you don't want to catch trichinosis?
13. What Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and species has the largest eye on the planet?
14. What happened today, Jan. 27, at 9:30 our time, that could've been a disaster?
15. How close was it?
16. Find a nonsense word with 5 letters, numbers, symbols (or less) that google will have "no hits" when searched?
17. What book published in 1844 first mentions the concept of evolution, or species changing over time?
18. Who was later found out to be the author?
19. What is Dihydrogen Monoxide and why is it so dangerous?
20. There is a bee hive in a tree on campus next to the LRC. On warm sunny days (above 50 degrees) you can see them coming and going. Identify the tree species containing the hive.
21. What did the Candiru say when it swam into its human host?
22.Of all the terms (words) in your textbook, which one is alphabetically the last and and also the first?
23. Find a two letter nonsense word composed of letters, numbers, symbols or both that yields "Your search " " did not match any documents" when you google it on the web.
24. What is the longest word in the English language, composed of 45 letters, and meaning a lung disease caused by the inhalation of volcanic silica?
25. Identify the name of the fish bone shown below. It is also in a state of hyperostosis!
26. What color feathers do Flamingos have when raised in captivity?
27. Identify the Genus and species of the fish in the photo below:
28. Why is this species of concern in the United States?
29. What government agency brought them here?
30. Why did they bring them here?
31. Within 100 yds. of the Glover Bldg. there is a tree in bloom. Bring to class a flower and identify the species of tree you found it on!
32. There are hundreds of birds on campus feeding on the holly berries. What species of bird are they?
33. There is another bird species trying to stop them by guarding the hollies and fighting them off. It's known for it's ability to imitate sounds. What species is it?
34. This is currently the largest living dog in the world. Name the breed, his name, and how much he weighs?
35. Identify the animal in the photo below caught a few days ago in Pakistan.
36. Identify this bird species in the photo below. (hint: native to North America)
37. Identify this plant in the photo below. It made national news this week and was grown by Russian scientists.
38. Why did it make the news?
39. How old was the seed that germinated to produce it?
40. During what geological Epoch was this seed buried?
41. Who buried it?
42. This animal below was recently discovered in India. What Class is it a member of?
43. What Order?
44. What is its common name?
45. Identify the frog species singing right now all over West Tennessee. Listen to it here!
46. Go to this website ( http://www.hotsynch.com/news/painting.htm )and find Charles Darwin amidst hundreds of historical figures.
What is he holding in his hand?
47. What animal is closest to him?
48. What's the animal's name?
49. What did his owner establish?
50. In the same painting find Ms. Parton and tell me why she is famous?
