| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Oct 27 04:39AM > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - Science-Fiction Books > 1. "The Road". Cormac McCarthy > 2. "Foundation". Isaac Asimov > 3. "Neuromancer". William Gibson > 4. "Cat's Cradle". Kurt Vonnegut > 5. "The Time Machine". H. G. Wells > 6. "A Clockwork Orange". Anthony Burgess > 7. "The Illustrated Man". Ray Bradbury > 8. "The Handmaid's Tale". Margaret Atwood > 9. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Jules Verne > 10. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". Philip K. Dick > 1. On 1953-02-28, at Cambridge University's Cavendish Labs, James > Watson and Francis Crick made what discovery about the structure > of DNA? it's a double helix > 2. What plant did Gregor Mendel use for his heredity studies for > the paper he published in 1866? pea > 3. In the acronym DNA, what does the A stand for? acid > 4. How many chromosomes do humans normally have in each typical > cell? 46 > 5. Chromosomes are duplicated prior to cell division. What is it > called if there is an error in that duplication? mutation > 6. If two green genes give you green, and two yellow genes give > you yellow, and one gene of each type also gives you yellow, > then what type of gene is the green gene? recessive > produces the cell's energy. They contain a small loop of DNA > and there are 500-1,000 of them in every human cell. What are > they called? mitochondria > 8. In the 1950s, what group of viruses was found to be made up of > RNA rather the than usual DNA? retroviruses > 9. What is the name of the initiative to identify and map all of > the genes found in people? Human Genome Project > 10. What social genetic movement arose with the idea of improving > the human stock by promoting the breeding of gifted individuals > and preventing the less gifted from doing so? eugenics -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
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