Questions of the Week

(4/19/11)

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 Biology I classes:

Biol 1110-01:   1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,24,25,26,28,29,30,32

Biol 1110-21:    1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,22,25,26,27

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.  Growing children require 2  more essential amino acids than the 8 required by adults.  What are they?

6.  What device is used to measure the caloric content of food?

7.  This word for a living thing is the both the first and the last (at least in some books)?

8.  What is the most abundant organic molecule on Earth?

9.  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?

10.  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!

11.  According to mitochondrial DNA, where did humans originally evolve and how long ago?

12.  What organelle is called the "garbage disposal" of the cell?

13. What is the cheetah fixing to eat?

14.  How does cyanide kill?

15.  What is the most abundant greenhouse gas?

16.  What was the first cloned mammal species and what was her show biz name?

17.  How do cells communicate?  (hint: joke question)

18.  The longest cell in the human body is?

19.  The smallest cell in the human body is?

20.  The character below is from a famous 60's era sitcom (Dobbie Gillis).  What metabolic cycle shares his name?

21.Of all the terms (words) in your textbook, which one is alphabetically the last and and also the first?

22.  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.

23.  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?

24.  What uses up more calories:  running, swimming or walking up stairs?  

25.  What other 2 animals besides humans and primates, cannot manufacture vitamin C?

26.  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?

27.  Identify the name of the fish bone shown below.  It is also in a state of hyperostosis!

28.  What color feathers do Flamingos have when raised in captivity?

29.  Who is Kristen Byrnes and what did she research?

30.  How old was she when she published her research?

31.  What was the title of her research paper?

32.  Identify the creature below:

Human A & P  II

(blue highlighted questions have already been answered)

1.  What year did pure human insulin first become available for diabetics? 

2.  What is the hormone pictured below?  

3.   This is one tall boy scout, only 13 years old and already 7'4" tall.  Identify him and the overactive gland responsible for his fast growth?

4.  According to the "Spiders on Drugs" video on my website, what type of web did the spider on marijuana build?

5.  What drug induced the spider to have hundreds of offspring, but then it had to leave the web because of a restraining order?   (see #21 below)

6.  What drug induced the spider to build a huge, minimalist, non-functioning web that was useless for capturing prey?

7.  What drug caused the spider to rob and kidnap other spiders? 

8.  Answer the riddle below?

9.  In the U.S., where do 65-80% of all human deaths occur?

10.  Who is the woman in the photo below? 

11.  Name the smallest cell found in the human body? 

12.   Below is a drawing by a early and very famous anatomist.  What's his name?

13.  What is the name of his drawing (seen above)?

14.  What was the title of the first Human Anatomy textbook (pub. date 1543)?

15.  What organ was David Vetter born without?

16.  Some time ago, a team of British archaeologists came upon some ancient Roman ruins. Among the ruins was a stone quarry, a nearby fortress of some kind, and what appeared to be a small town, with some houses, some livestock pens, and so on.

All of these things were connected by roads -- those famous stone roads built by the Romans. In fact, they probably obtained the stones for the roads from the very quarry they discovered. After some careful observation, these archaeologists determined that the Romans drove their carts and wagons, and, probably chariots too, on the left side of the road, just like the Brits do.

How did they know this?

17.  What is the half-life of Iodine 131?

.18.  How is it used in medicine?

19.  Below is a problem that can be solved.  Read it and tell Dougie what to do.

RAY: Our erstwhile Producer, Dougie Berman, was diagnosed recently with a rare disease -- chronic laziness. If not treated, it could be fatal.

The doctor, prescribed two different kinds of pills, and said, "They have to be taken simultaneously, at bedtime, every night. Take one from one bottle, and one from the other. It's the interaction of the two pills that is the key."

Dougie's got 10 pills in each bottle. But, if he makes the mistake of taking two of the same pill, he's done for.

TOM: What if he only takes one pill?

RAY: Done for, again.

He decides to convalesce at his remote mountain cabin, and he begins the six-hour drive to get there. But his car breaks down, and he has to walk the last 20 miles clutching these two bottles of pills -- the only thing between him and the Grim Reaper.

He arrives after dark. He's so weak that delirium has begun to set in.

TOM: How would he know?

RAY: Good question.

As he makes his way to the kitchen sink, he stumbles and falls and, you guessed it, he spills all the pills. When he wakes up, he finds that one of the containers has two pills in it, the other container is empty, and there are 18 pills scattered all over the floor.

He begins to gather up the pills. As he's looking at them he discovers to his horror that they all look alike. They're the same color, shape and size. There's no way to tell them apart.

He's getting weaker by the minute. But, he remembers that he has his very own, very accurate, "analytic" scale—the kind that a pharmacist would use.

But, by the time he weighs the 11th pill, his worst fear is confirmed. Not only do they all look and feel and smell alike but they all weigh the same.

There's absolutely no way to distinguish one pill from another.

Is there a way for him to take the recommended dosage and save his life, or should we let the Grim Reaper in and start looking for a new producer?

Hint:  Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

20.  What two languages predominate modern anatomical terminology?

 21.  Of all the terms (words) in your textbook, which one is alphabetically the last and within what organ is it found? 

22.  What blood related human genetic disorder evolved to resist malaria? 

23.  Identify the compound below:

24.  What strange blood disorder did King George III of England have that ultimately led to his losing the throne and going "mad"?

25.  What chemical element may have contributed to his demise?

26.  What is the most common blood plasma protein found in the human body?

27.  Besides the blood clotting mechanism, what other examples of "positive feedback" mechanisms coccur in the human body?

28.  What parasite did Dr. Upton use to save his patient's ear, a five yr. old boy, who lost it due to a dog's bite?

29.  What condition does RhoGAM prevent?

30.  When is type O blood not really type O blood, and what does it have to do with India?

31.  What is a TIA?

32.  What can 70% of astronauts not do upon returning to earth?

33.  If your blood pressure is 4.7 over 3.2, how can this be?

34.  How do you measure a person's blood volume without removing all their blood?

35.  Heredity, pregnancy, obesity and standing for long periods raise the risk of developing what kind of veins?

36.  How long would all your blood vessels be if they were all laid out in a single line?

37.  How many gallons of blood does your heart pump each day?

38.  What is the only reptile to have a 4 chambered heart, just like us humans?

39.  A guy on vacation in Boca Raton, Florida, 1993, is walking down the beach when he meets two, very beautiful blondes in bikinis.  "Wow" he says, "You two must be twins" because they where almost identical.  "Nope" they both replied.  "In fact, one of us is 6 years older than the other.  Can you guess which of us is the older?"   He then asks them one question.  "Have either of you ever traveled out of this country?"  Whereupon they both say "No."  He was able then to very easily tell who was the older of the two.  How did he know? 

40.  This art exhibit is a recreation of the human digestive tract.  It eats, and digests food and eliminates something that you can purchase.  No kidding!!!   Name this exhibit:

41.  If you want to buy a sample of what it produces, how much does it cost (without S&H)?

42.  Sensory impulses travel from the site of stimulation to the medulla oblongata, whereupon these motor responses follow:  These include taking a deep breath, raising the soft palate and thus closing the nasal cavity, closing the opening to the trachea (glottis), relaxing the circular muscle fibers at the base of the esophagus, contracting the diaphragm so it presses downward over the stomach, and contracting the abdominal wall muscles to increase pressure inside the abdominal cavity.  What is the name of the reflex just described?

43.   What kind of onion caused a Hepatitis A outbreak in Pittsburgh, PA back in 2003?

44.  What is the origin of the slogan "I'll take the whole nine yards" and how can it be applied to the human digestive system?

45.  What is Streptococcus mutans and what was it's intended purpose?

46.  Who won the Nobel Prize in 2005 for proving a cause of stomach ulcers?

47.  What was the name of the bacteria they discovered?

48.  What did Perry W. eat?

49.  What did Molly G. suffer from?

50.  A diet of beans, broccoli, bran, brussels sprouts, cabbage and onions will most likely have this effect on one's digestive tract?

51.  Find a five letter nonsense word composed of letters, numbers or both that yields "Your search "   " did not match any documents" when you google it on the web.

52.   Identify the compound below that is so important to your health?

      hint: (C6H8O6)

53.  BRITISH SAILORS IN HER ROYAL MAJESTIES NAVY ARE ALSO KNOWN AS _______ BECAUSE OF THEIR HISTORICAL USE OF THIS FRUIT TO WARD OFF SCURVY.

54.  THE FIRST VACCINATION WAS DEVELOPED BY JENNER FOR THIS DISEASE?

 55.  Sucralose is how many times sweeter than sucrose?

56.  Growing children require 2  more essential amino acids than the 8 required by adults.  What are they?

57.  What device is used to measure the caloric content of food?

58.  What uses up more calories:  running, swimming or walking up stairs?  

59.  What other 2 animals besides humans and primates, cannot manufacture vitamin C? 

60.  What word means "the evil spirit which infects the first child when the second child is born?"  

61.  What did Christy Henrich die of?  

62.  Name the syndrome that includes diarrhea, erratic blood sugar levels, and other problems often encountered after a gastrectomy.

63.  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?

64.  Find a four letter nonsense word composed of letters, numbers or both that yields "Your search "   " did not match any documents" when you google it on the web.

65.  Name the human nutritional disorder named after a bird's scientific name? 

66.  In those mammals that can make vitamin C, the liver manufactures it along with another organ.  Name that other organ?

67.  Identify the important nutrient (entire molecule) below: 

68.  What common food kills over 200 people in the U.S. each year due to allergic reactions?

69.  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?

70.   You're going on a deep, extended, scuba dive.  What gas would you mix with pure oxygen to avoid the danger of the bends (decompression sickness)?

71.  What do duck feet and kidneys have in common?

72.  What language is the origin of the word "gout?"

73.  As pessoas que comem esta verdura freqüentemente urine de malodorous de experiência. O que verdura comum causa isto? 

74.  Quel désordre cause-t-il des gens qui mangent des betteraves excréter l'urine rose sombre?

75.  Who are the persons for which Cheyne-Stokes respiration is named after?  Include their first names and nationalities.

76.    This anatomist, photo below, has a structure named after him.  A normal healthy human has over 2 million of these structures in their body.  Who is he?

77.  Who are Abby and Britty Hensel?

78.  What U.S. president's name is used to describe a male's renewed reproductive interest when exposed to unfamiliar females of the same species.

79.  In what country is "morning sickness" (nausea associated with pregnancy) most common?

80.  What is the theoretical reason "morning sickness" may protect the developing fetus?

81.  What genetic trait did male members of the Adams presidential family exhibit?  (Note the spelling "Adams" not "Addams")

82.  What college provided the photos in your text comparing the heights of their cadets from 1920 to 1997?