RIDDLES

1. I am a unique organ in animals

2. My structure can vary among the different animal species
3. In humans, other mammals and birds I am divided into four chambers
4. I possess four valves that ensure unidirectional blood flow and prevent backflow of blood
5. One of the simplest methods of assessing my condition is to listen to the sound I produced
using a stethoscope
Who am I?
ANSWER: Heart

1. I am a globe shaped structure.

2. I am surrounded by a socket.
3. My name means to measure or estimate roughly by sight.
4. I am also used to refer to an overhead light fixture that is mounted on a swivel in a
recessed socket so the light can be directed in any direction.
5. I am covered externally by the eyelids
6. I am the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Eyeball

1. I am a structure associated with the nervous system.

2. The first part of my name is familiar to electricians, athletes and swimmers.
3. Actually I am just an elongated cell.
4. I play an important role during reflex actions.
5. I have two siblings who are not in close contact with each other.
6. I form a bridge between my two siblings
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Relay Neurone

1. Owing to my size and distinctive structure, I was one of the first organelles to be
discovered and observed in detail.
2.
3. I am found in most eukaryotic cells.
4. I was discovered with the help of special staining techniques.
5. However, my structure was only revealed by the electron microscope.
 6. I consist of a stack of flattened membrane-bound sacs called cisternae.
7. I was discovered by an Italian physician, Camillo Golgi, during an investigation of the
nervous system.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Golgi Apparatus/ Golgi Body/Golgi complex/Dictyosome

1. In the linguistic sense I am the systematic representation of language in written form

2. In biology I am the first step of gene expression in which a particular segment of DNA is
copied into RNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
3. I can be measured and detected in a variety of ways
4. Some viruses, such as HIV, have the ability to reverse my process.
5. As opposed to DNA replication, I result in an RNA complement that includes the
nucleotide uracil
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Transcription

1. I am found in warm habitats that range from rain forest to desert conditions.
2. I belong to a family that was divided into two subfamilies, by Klaver and Böhme in
1986.
3. My skin has a superficial layer which contains pigments,
4. I have two superimposed layers within my skin that control my colour and
thermoregulation.
5. If my tongue was a car, it could accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 1/100th of a second
6. My species come in a range of colours, and many of my species have the ability to
change colours.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Chameleon

1. I am a kind of test
2. I was first introduced by Gregor Mendel,
3. I can help determine whether a dominant phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous for a
specific allele.
4. I am the type of cross that involves breeding the individual in question with another
individual that expresses a recessive version of the same trait.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Test Cross

1. My name is in two parts.

2. The first part represents a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within
text, to set apart or interject other text.
3. The second part refers to a type of decomposer.
4. I am mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris.
5. Characteristically, I produce bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies
called conks.
6. I often grow in semi-circular shapes, looking like trees or wood.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Bracket Fungi

1. I am a type of flying insect

2. The first six letters my name signifies a legendary creature, typically with traits of
reptiles, that features in the myths of many cultures.
3. I belong to the order Odonata
4. I am among the fastest flying insects in the world
Who am I?

ANSWER: Dragon fly

1. I am a large group of eukaryotic organisms

2. The scientific study of me is thought to have originated in 1836 with English naturalist
Miles Joseph Berkeley's publication.
3. I have a worldwide distribution, and grow in a wide range of habitats, including extreme
environments such as deserts or areas with high salt concentrations
4. The word, mycology, refers to the scientific study of me
5. My members include microorganisms such as yeasts and moulds, as well as the more
familiar mushrooms.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Fungi/fungus

1. I am a unicellular free living organism.

2. I belong to the phylum Rhizopoda
3. I am a freshwater organism found in ponds and pools.
4. My body keeps on changing in shape as I move
5. Scientists therefore describe my body as irregular,
6. I moved by using round tipped structures known as pseudopodia.
Who Am I? –

ANSWER: Amoeba

1. I am a cylindrical worm.
2. I am known to possess metamerically segmented body
3. My segments are visible as transverse rings.
4. My first body segment called Peristomium lies ventral to my mouth
5. I am a terrestrial organism and live in moist soil that is rich in humus.
6. I do not possess a distinct head but have an anterior mouth
7. The first five letters of my name signifies a planet.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Earthworm

1. I am one of a group of structures whose name suggest that they are small organs
2. am indeed small and spherical
3. I am present in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
4. I am composed of RNA and protein
5. I sometimes have a close association with messenger RNA
6. I am involved in translation
Who am I?
nswer: Ribosome
1. In physics, I am one of the fundamental states of matter.
2. To the biologist I am the pale-yellow liquid component of blood.
3. I normally hold the blood cells in whole blood in suspension.
4. I make up about 55% of the body's total blood volume.
5. As a blood product, I am prepared from blood donations used in blood transfusions.
Who am I?

ANSWER: (Blood) Plasma

1. Along with the liver, I am one of the master chemists of the body of some organisms.
2. In fact, I am two chemists in one.
3. One of my functions is the production of enzymes for the digestive system in the
exocrine tissue.
4. My other function creates hormones as part of the endocrine systems
5. I am a gland, placed between a bend in the upper part of the intestine and the stomach

WHO AM I? The pancreas

1. I am found in many places throughout the natural world

2. I am a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide that is a tough, protective, semitransparent
substance
3. In my pure, unmodified form, I am translucent, pliable, resilient, and quite tough.
4. But when combined with calcium carbonate, as in the shells of crustaceans and
mollusks, I produce a much stronger composite.
5. I am the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and of the bodies of
fungi

WHO AM I? Chitin

1. I am an organelle
2. My function and significance vary greatly according to the type of cell in which I am
present,
3. I have much greater prominence in the cells of plants, fungi and certain protoctists
than those of animals and bacteria.
4. I am space in a cell's cytoplasm that is surrounded by a membrane and filled with a
watery fluid.
5. My fluid stores food prior to digestion or waste products prior to excretion
WHO AM I? Vacuole

1. I am a biological molecule
2. I was first discovered by a French chemist in 1833.
3. I am not rigid, static structure; instead I have complex internal dynamic motions
4. When studying the fermentation of sugar to alcohol by yeast, Louis Pasteur referred to
me as vital force contained within the yeast cells called "ferments",
5. Almost all metabolic processes in the cell need me in order to occur at rates fast
enough to sustain life

WHO AM I? Enzyme

1. I am a molecule with diverse chemical structures,

2. My secretion occurs in response to specific biochemical signals from a wide range of
regulatory systems
3. I exit my cell of origin by exocytosis or by means of membrane transport
4. I am used to communicate between organs and tissues for physiological regulation
and behavioral activities
5. I work slowly, over time, and affect many different processes, including, Growth and
development, Metabolism, Sexual function, Reproduction, Mood
6. I am your body's chemical messengers.

WHO AM I? Hormone

1. I am a hydrophilic substance that is odourless and has no taste

2. The first four letters of my name represent a basic structural, functional, and
biological unit or a narrow confining room
3. And the last four letters means - to be unsuccessful in retaining possession of
something
4. I am the main component of the cell wall of vascular plants
5. I am mainly used to produce paperboard and paper.

WHO AM I? Cellulose
 1. I am a biological oxidation process
2. I was discovered by a Russian microbiologist
3. I am an important step in a particular cycle that occurs in the soil
4. I am an aerobic process performed mostly by small groups of autotrophic bacteria and
archaea.
5. I play an important role in the removal of nitrogen from municipal wastewater.
6. In the nitrogen cycle, I am the process by which nitrite is converted to nitrate

WHO AM I? Nitrification

1. I may be a field or range of operation or influence.

2. In Entomology, I am one of the principal longitudinal veins in the anterior portion of
the wing of an insect.
3. In Botany, I am a group of ray florets, occurring in such plants as the daisy
4. In anatomy, I am the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm
5. In mathematics I am a line segment that joins the center of a sphere with any point on
its surface.

WHO AM I? Radius

1. I am a biological process
2. I am completely absent in the animal world
3. I owe my existence to a class of complex organic polymers that form important
structural materials
4. My process results in a change in the character of the cell wall of plants and makes
them harder
5. I am popularly known by the laying down of lignin in a plant which is the last stage in
maturation and represents a heavy loss in nutritional value.

WHO AM I? Lignification

1. I am a type of organism
2. I provide a rich and diverse habitat for other organisms including animals, fungi, and
bacteria.
3. I am a plant that grows harmlessly upon another plant (such as a tree)
 4. I differ from a parasite in that I grow on other plants for physical support and do not
necessarily negatively affect my host.
5. I derive moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, and sometimes from debris
accumulating around my host.

WHO AM I? Epiphyte

1. The first five letters of my name represent an important organ in mammals and other
organisms
2. And the last four letters represent the liquid extracted from the mashing process
during the brewing of beer or whisky
3. I am a small non-vascular spore-producing plant.
4. I am not economically important to humans but do provide food for animals, and aid
in the disintegration of rocks by my ability to retain moisture.
5. Mosses and my group are traditionally classified together in the Division Bryophyta

WHO AM I? Liverwort

1. I am a common feature in the sexual reproduction of many organisms

2. In single-celled organisms, I can divide asexually by mitosis to produce identical
offspring.
3. In multicellular organisms, I represent the first stage in the development of a
genetically unique organism
4. In land plants, I am formed within a chamber called the archegonium.
5. I am an eukaryotic cell formed by the fusion of two gametes.

WHO AM I? Zygote

1. I am a feature and a function of certain structures in cells

2. These structures are essential in maintaining homeostasis
 3. Because they regulate the passage of some substances while preventing others from
entering the cell
4. The most common example is the phospholipid bilayer plasma membrane that
surrounds every cell in our bodies
5. I am the capacity of a membrane to allow some particles to pass through but not
others

WHO AM I? Selective permeability / differential permeability

1. I am used to refer to a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances

2. In biology I am accompanied by alterations of the organism’s physiology,
biochemistry, and behaviour.
3. Among the most dramatic and thoroughly studied examples of me are the insects
4. In starfishes and other echinoderms I result in a change from the bilateral symmetry of
the larva to the radial symmetry of the adult.
5. In frogs, I result in the transformation of the tadpole, which the is as aquatic larval
stage into the land-dwelling frog

WHO AM I? Metamorphosis

1. You may refer to me as a purification technology or process

2. In my process pressure is applied for water molecules to move against a concentration
gradient through a partially permeable membrane
3. I am used in desalination of sea water to make it drinkable.
4. In the production of bottled mineral water, I am used to remove pollutants and
microorganisms
5. I am the process of osmosis in reverse

WHO AM I? Reverse osmosis

1. My precise shape and size vary widely among different organisms,

2. In classical anatomy, I am divided into four sections
 3. I am present in many animals including vertebrates, echinoderms, insects, and
molluscs
4. In humans and many other vertebrates I am involved in the second phase of digestion,
following mastication
5. I normally lie between the oesophagus and the duodenum

WHO AM I? Stomach

1. The first three letters of my name means to strike gently with a light blow or blows:
2. Or a valve and spout used to regulate delivery of a fluid at the end of a pipe.
3. The last four letters refer to the embedded portion of a tooth, nail, or hair
4. Typically, I am somewhat straight and very thick, conical in shape, and grows directly
downward.
5. I am the large, central, and dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally.

WHO AM I? Taproot

1. I have been used to protect military equipment such as vehicles, guns, ships, aircraft,
and building, as well as individual soldiers and their positions
2. I have been a topic of interest and research in zoology for well over a century
3. Different aspects of me exist due to difference in the sensory abilities of different
animals
4. When you see leaf-eating insects green, and bark-feeders mottled-grey; then I am at
play to protect them from danger.
5. I am the Structural adaptation that enables species to blend with their surroundings;
Which allows them to avoid detection by predators or preys

WHO AM I? Camouflage

1. My most common use is to inform the reader that what follows me, explains, defines,
describes, or lists elements of what preceded me
2. In human anatomy, I am a structure consisting of four parts
3. My ascending part travels up the right side of the abdomen.
4. My transverse part runs across the abdomen.
 5. My descending part travels down the left abdomen.
6. My sigmoid part forms a short curve, just before the rectum.

WHO AM I? Colon

1. I was originally a concept from genetics but am now used in biochemistry,

computational biology and evolutionary biology
2. I have a large influence on the shape of evolutionary landscapes
3. I arise due to interactions, either between genes, or within them, leading to non-linear
effects.
4. I am a form of gene interaction whereby one gene masks or interferes with the
phenotypic expression of one or more genes at other loci;
5. The gene with the expressed phenotype is said to be epistatic,
6. And the phenotype altered or suppressed is then said to be hypostatic.

WHO AM I? Epistasis

1. Every biology student has to learn about me in his basic botany course, but most
people quickly forget about me
2. I was named after my discoverer, a German botanist, in the 19th century.
3. I am a cellular feature found in the roots of all higher plants.
4. I might be viewed rather like mortar in a wall that blocks the passive flow of materials
such as water and solutes.
5. I am a band of cell wall material deposited in the radial and transverse walls of the
endodermis

WHO AM I? Casparian strip

1. My name literally means "little vinegar cup

2. Because I was thought to resemble a small vinegar cup.
3. I am the cavity or depression on the lateral surface of the innominate bone
4. This bone is composed of the three bones ilium, ischium, and pubis,
5. I am the socket of the hipbone, into which the head of the femur fits to form ball-and-
socket joint
WHO AM I? Acetabulum

1. Compared with most other kinds of tissue, I have few cells.

2. I have a wide variety of functions that depend on the types of cells and the different
classes of fibers involved
3. I am of one of the four groups of tissues in the body that maintain the form of the
body and its organs and provide cohesion and internal support.
4. The other three types are epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue
5. I am found in between other tissues everywhere in the body, including the nervous
system

WHO AM I? Connective tissue

1. I am a physiological process that occurs in some organisms

2. I occur in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms
3. I am intimately related to excretion because the two of us together maintain
homeostasis
4. Some of the organelles and organs that carry out my process include, nephridia,
antennal glands, malpighian tubules of invertebrates, salt glands of plants and kidneys
of vertebrates.
5. I am the process of regulating water potential in order to keep fluid and electrolyte
balance within a cell or organism relative to the surrounding

WHO AM I? Osmoregulation

1. I am a resilient and smooth elastic tissue,

2. I am not as hard and rigid as bone, but am stiffer and less flexible than muscle.
3. Because of my rigidity, I often serve the purpose of holding tubes open in the body.
4. I am a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the
joints,
5. I am also a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes,
the intervertebral discs, and many other body components.
WHO AM I? Cartilage

1. I am an organ found in virtually all vertebrates and similar in structure to a large

lymph node
2. In humans, I am brownish in colour and located in the left upper quadrant of the
abdomen
3. Although I can be surgically removed when damaged such individuals are at a
lifelong risk of death from ordinary infectious processes
4. I am a reservoir of immune competence
5. I am essentially a screening center to check the blood for contaminants

WHO AM I? Spleen

1. In everyday English I am used when one wants to search a place or an area very
carefully in order to find something.
2. I may be a flat piece of plastic or metal with a row of thin teeth
3. I may also be a device that is used for separating or straightening fibers
4. In the world of honey bees, I am a wax cell built to contain their larvae and also store
honey and pollen
5. I am the fleshy, more or less serrated outgrowth on the head of certain birds,
especially the domestic fowl.

WHO AM I? Comb

1. I may be used to refer to something that is very pleasant

2. In Greek folklore I was known as the divine drink
3. Because I was believed to confer immortality on mortals who had the luck to drink
me
4. I am useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory
insects feed on me
5. I am a sugary fluid produced by flowers to attract pollinating insects, birds and bats.

WHO AM I? Nectar
 1. I have been used in war to deprive the enemy of cover for its forces and also vital
resources
2. I am an ongoing process in the world and popularly known to be shaping climate and
geography
3. There are multiple methods that are appropriate and reliable for reducing and
monitoring my occurrence
4. I cause extinction, change climatic conditions, desertification, and displacement of
population
5. I am normally used to refer to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or
related ecosystems into less bio-diverse ecosystems

WHO AM I? Deforestation

1. I am a complex organ, and as such, there are a very large number of possible
conditions that may affect my function
2. I am found in all tetrapods and also in teleosts, although my form and length vary
enormously between species
3. I develop from the mid-gut of the primitive gut tube
4. I am the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine
5. I am the region of the alimentary canal where most chemical digestion takes place

WHO AM I? Small Intestine

1. I am home to many several species from different taxa, even though I am an extreme
environment for organisms to live
2. I am a type of zone which is an important model system for the study of ecology,
especially on wave-swept rocky shores.
3. Organisms living in my zone are unique because of their ability to withstand exposure
to air and the force of pounding waves
4. Marine biologists divide me into three zones (low, middle, and high), based on the
overall average exposure of the zone.
5. I am the area that is above water at low tide and under water at high tide
WHO AM I? Intertidal zone / Foreshore / Seashore/littoral zone

1. I am formed of three bones

2. I am composed of three functional compartments
3. I am one of the strongest and most important joints in the human body.
4. My movements are essential to many everyday activities, including walking, running,
sitting and standing.
5. I allow the lower leg to move relative to the thigh while supporting the body’s weight.

WHO AM I? Knee joint

1. I am one of the earliest concepts related to the issue of scale

2. I was originally used to determine the number of animals that could graze on a
segment of land without destroying it.
3. Later, the idea was expanded to more complex populations, like humans
4. In an environment, I may vary for different species and may change over time due to
environmental conditions and living space
5. I am the number of individuals an environment can support without significant
negative impacts to the given organism and its environment.

WHO AM I? Carrying capacity

1. I am a composite organism that arise from two organisms

2. I have properties that are different from those of my component organisms
3. I grow in a wide range of substrates and habitats, including some of the most extreme
conditions on earth.
4. I am among the first living things to grow on fresh rock exposed after an event such
as a landslide
5. I arise from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a
mutualistic relationship

WHO AM I? A lichen
 1. I may be a conductor by which electromagnetic waves are sent out or received,
2. In biology I am sometimes referred to as a "feeler"
3. I vary widely in form, but am always made of one or more jointed segments.
4. I am sometimes modified for other purposes, such as mating, brooding, swimming,
and even anchoring an arthropod to a substrate
5. I am the jointed structure in insects that bears organs which are sensitive to touch,
smell and vibration
WHO AM I? Antenna

1. My name is derived from a Latin verb, which means to boil.

2. I am a process which precedes human history, and humans have exploited me since
ancient times,
3. To many people, I simply mean the production of alcohol
4. Localized foods that are prepared by my process may be based on beans, grain,
vegetables, fruits, honey, dairy products, fish, meat, or tea.
5. I am the process by which complex organic compounds, such as glucose, are broken
down by the action of enzymes into simpler compounds when no oxygen is present.

WHO AM I? Fermentation

1. I am used metaphorically to refer to reasoning or decision making that is narrow in

scope.
2. In science, I am a common condition that affects many people in the world
3. My underlying cause is believed to be a combination of genetic and environmental
factors
4. I occur, if the eyeball is too long or the cornea is too curved. (Are you extremely
myopic)?
5. I am the condition in which one unable to see distant objects clearly because the
images are focused in front of the retina of the eye

WHO AM I? Myopia / short sightedness

 1. I have been noticed since ancient times,
2. I am present throughout the animal kingdom, and an almost endless list could be
given
3. The reason for my existence was long speculated upon before Darwinian evolution
provided a widely accepted explanation
4. I am often homologous to structures that are functioning normally in other species
5. I am a structure that has no apparent function and appears to be residual parts from a
past ancestor

WHO AM I? Vestigial structure

1. Our name gives us three different identities

2. Part of our name associates us with one of the secondary colours
3. Another part sounds like we are a building for human habitation
4. The last part of our part name places us under one of the states of matter
5. We are a group of compounds that are able to trap heat in the atmosphere, keeping the
Earth's surface warmer than it would be if we were not present.

WHO AM I? Greenhouse gases

1. I may be a room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay.
2. I may also be an agreement between two groups who have different opinions on a
subject
3. In biology, I am the act or state of adjustment or adaptation
4. I am achieved through the action of the ciliary muscles that change the shape of the
lens.
5. I am the process by which the focus of the eye changes so that both distant and near
objects can be made sharp

WHO AM I? Accommodation
1. I am a vital association, especially, for terrestrial ecosystem function.
2. I can be contrasted with interspecific competition, in which each species experiences
reduced fitness, and exploitation,
3. Many of my associations involve species living closely together
4. A well-known example of me is the Mycorrhizal association between certain plant roots
and fungi,
5. In my association,two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each
individual benefits from the activity of the other
WHO AM I?
ANSWER Mutualism

1. I am a material of natural or synthetic origin.

2. I may be applied as a solid or liquid.
3. I am applied to soils or to plant tissues (usually leaves) to supply one or more plant
nutrients essential to the growth of plants.
4. I am classified according to whether I provide a single nutrient or provide two or
more nutrients.
5. I am commonly used for growing all crops, with application rates depending on the
soil fertility.
6. I am known to be the main contributor to the eutrophication of fresh water bodies.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Fertilizer

1. In the broadest sense, I am an organism that is a competitor of humanity

2. It is also possible for me to be a bother or nuisance in one setting but beneficial, or
acceptable in another.
3. I am used to refer to any prolific animal or plant
4. I could also be a person or thing that irritates, especially by imposing itself when it is not
wanted
5. I am commonly used to refer to
anyorganismthatdamagescrops,injuresorirritateslivestockorman,orreducesthefertilityoflan
d
 WHO AM I?
ANSWER: A Pest

1. I am a sub-cellular structure.
2. I am found predominantly in protists and in unicellular algae.
3. My number per cell varies, depending on the species.
4. I was previously known as pulsatile.
5. I act as part of a protective mechanism that prevents the cell from absorbing too much
water and possibly lysing through excessive internal pressure.
6. As my name suggests, I expel water out of the cell by contracting.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Contractile vacuole

1. I am a type of fungus belonging to class Ascomycetes

2. Unlike most members of the class, I am unicellular.
3. Individually, each cell of mine is colourless but may appear cream or white in colonies.
4. I am saprophytic and found on the surface of sugary substances like fruit juices, sugar
cane and nectar of flowers.
5. I am the most common fungus that is used in alcoholic fermentation of sugar.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Yeast

1. I am flagellated and flexible freshwater organism

2. I am unicellular and free-living
3. I am characterized as having both animal-like and plantlike characteristics
4. My body is spindle-shaped with rounded anterior and pointed posterior end
5. In spite of the presence of a mouth, I also possess chlorophyll that makes me appear
green in colour
6. I belong to the phylum Euglenophyta.

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Euglena
 1. My name comes from Classical Latin which literally means "obtained by
digging".
2. I vary in size from microscopic to very large forms.
3. I range in age from the youngest to the oldest.
4. I may also consist of the marks left behind by the organism while it was alive.
5. Precicely, I am the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other
organisms from the remote past.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Fossil

1. I am a type of tissue in plants

2. I am composed of two types of cells that are hollow and non-living
3. Tracheids and vessel elements are the main cells that make up my tissue
4. I am part of the vascular transport tissue
5. In fact, I am responsible of the transport of water and mineral salts from roots to the
leaves of plants.

WHO AM I? –

ANSWER: Xylem

1. I consist of a complicated system of membranous channels.

2. My membranes are usually interconnected with one another to form a complex network.
3. I connect the plasma membrane with the nuclear membrane.
4. Depending on the presence or absence of ribosomes on my surface, I might me rough or
smooth.
5. My rough members are the sites for protein synthesis while my smooth members are the
site for the synthesis of lipids and steroids.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Endoplasmic (reticulum)

1. My name in Greek means self-feeding.

2. I am an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple substances
present in my surroundings.
3. I can use light as an energy source, or utilize electron donors as a source of energy.
4. I am the producer in a food chain.
5. My examples include green plants, algae and certain bacteria.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Autotroph

1. I am known not to satisfy the criteria for “living”

2. This is because I possess only a portion of the properties of organisms
3. I cannot reproduce on my own and for this reason I am not considered alive by biologists.
4. Don’t dare to host me in your cells, because I will produce many of my type with
disastrous results to you the host.
5. Some of my members are responsible for HIV/AIDS
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Virus

1. If I were your spouse you would be calling me ‘honey’

2. But I cannot be your spouse because I am an organic compound

3. I belong to a certain group of natural products

4. I am the sweetest of them all.

5. I love one of my cousins very much and we are found together in most places

6. My name suggests that I may be found in a number of fruits

WHO AM I?
ANSWER:FRUCTOSE

1. I am a type of organelle
2. I am normally located just outside the nucleus
3. I am found in most eukaryotic cells, but absent in higher plants and fungi
4. I am shaped like a cylinder, and normally occur in a pair
5. I am involved in the organization of the mitotic spindle and in the completion of
cytokinesis
6. The first four letters of name means hundred
WHO AM I?
ANSWER:Centriole

1. I am a German embryologist
2. One can never talk about chromosomes without making reference to me, because I
discovered them.
3. While examining rapidly dividing cells of larvae of Salamander in 1882, I saw minute
threads within their nuclei that appeared to be dividing lengthwise.
4. I called their division mitosis, based on the Greek word mitos, meaning thread.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Walther Fleming

1. You may refer to US as a twin organ, since we occur in pairs.

2. We are located on either side of the vertebral column, just below the diaphragm where we
enjoy partial protection by the lower rib cage.
3. We are shaped like beans and appear reddish brown in humans.
4. We are responsible for the production of urine in mammals.
WHO ARE WE?

ANSWER: KIDNEY

1. I am an eight letter word

2. Before DNA and chromosomes were discovered my understanding was one of the
greatest mysteries of science
3. The key to understanding my study was found in the garden of an Austrian Monk
4. My study involves how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Heredity/Genetics

1. I am a class of compounds that occur in both multicellular and in unicellular organisms.

2. Even though I am defined functionally, but not structurally, I may have diverse chemical
structures.
3. My synthesis may occur in specific tissues of endocrine glands or in other specialized
cells.
4. This synthesis occurs in response to specific biochemical signals induced by a wide range
of regulatory systems.
5. I am used to communicate between organs and tissues to regulate physiological and
behavioural activities.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Hormone

1. I am a type of bone in tetrapod vertebrates

2. My head articulates with the acetabulum in the pelvic bone forming the hip joint
3. My distal part articulates with the tibia and patella forming the knee joint
4. I provide surfaces for the attachment of leg muscles and support the thigh
5. In vertebrates with four legs such as dogs and cats, I am found only in the rear legs
Who am I?
ANSWER: Femur

1. I am a reproductive structure found in certain organisms

2. I normally consist of four kinds of structures attached to the tip of a short stalk
3. In addition to facilitating reproduction, I have long been admired and used by humans
to beautify their environment
4. I am also an object of romance, ritual, religion, medicine and as a source of food.
5. I give rise to fruits and seeds.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Flower

1. The term desmology refers to the study of me

2. I am found in the skeletal system of the human body
3. I am the fibrous tissue that connects bones to other bones
4. Some of my types limit the mobility of articulations, or prevent certain movements
altogether.
5. I gradually shrink when under tension, and return to my original shape when the tension
is removed
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Ligament

1. I am a taxon in the hierarchy of taxa

2. I am the only taxon with members that share only broad and general characteristics
3. My name refers to a monarchy ruled by a king or queen
4. I am the first and largest rank among the seven ranks into which living organisms are
classified.

WHO AM I? Kingdom
1. To the Jewish I am a series of traditions associated with major life events in Judaism.
2. To the systems engineer, I am an examination of a system that addresses all phases of its
existence.
3. To the software developer I am an object in object-oriented programming.
4. In business, I am the stages in the lifespan of a commercial or consumer product.
5. In Biology I am the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from birth to
reproduction ending with the generation of the offspring.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Life cycle

1. We got our name from a Latin word which means “divided body”.
2. We are among the most diverse groups of animals on the planet
3. We may be found in nearly all environments, although only a small number of our species
reside in the oceans.
4. Our adults typically move about by walking, flying, or sometimes swimming.
5. Some of our species are regarded as pests by Humans, and there are attempts to control
those using insecticides and a host of other techniques.

WHO ARE WE?

ANSWER: Insects

1. I derive my name from a Greek word which means to "to grow or increase"
2. I am present in all parts of a plant, although in very different concentrations
3. You may refer to me asa class of plant hormones
4. I am the first of the major plant hormones to be discovered
5. I coordinate development at all levels in plants, from the cellular level, through organs,
and ultimately to the whole plant.
6. I am commonly referred to as IAA or Indole Acetic Acid
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Auxin

1. I am a branch of biology
2. The first three letters of my name refer to a financial charge or other levy imposed
upon an individual or legal entity by a state
3. The Greek philosopher and biologist Aristotle was one of the pioneers of my study
4. My study concerns the principle of classification

WHO AM I?

Taxonomy

1. I am a molecular unit
2. I am used extensively by the scientific community as a name given to some stretches of
deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA’s) and Ribonucleic acid (RNA)
3. My existence was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
4. The total complement of me in an organism or cell is known as genome.
5. I am the molecular unit of heredity of a living organism
WHO AM I? Gene

1. I am a fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of an organism

2. My name consists of eight letters
3. The first four letters of my name refer to a thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal
boiled in water or milk
4. And the last four letters of name refer to any distinguishable space within a structure
that has its own door.
5. I am a member of the eukaryotic organisms commonly referred to as fungi
WHO AM I? Mushroom
1. I am a marine animal found in coastal areas all over the world.
2. I am most abundant in warm waters.
3. I am found attached to rocks by means of a pedal disc.
4. I have a cylindrical body with a ring of tentacles surrounding the mouth on the upper
surface.
5. I possess a valuable weapon called nematocyst whose poison can immobilize a fish in
a few seconds.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Sea Anemone

1. I belong to the phylum Chordata and the class Reptilia

2. I lack teeth but have a sharp beak

3. Unlike my counterparts on land, I possess flattened and paddle-like legs

4. Those of us in the sea leave the ocean only to lay eggs.

5. My trunk is covered by a bony shell having a carapace on the dorsal surface and a
plastron on the ventral surface

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Turtle

1. My name in Greek suggests cup-shaped cavity.

2. You may refer to me as seed leaf or embryo leaf.

3. I provide nutrient molecules either by storing or absorbing food for growing embryos.

4. Some embryos may have only one of me whereas I may be two in others.

5. In fact, I am the basis for dividing flowering plants into two main groups.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Cotyledon
1. I am a six letter word
2. The first four letters of my name signifies a pastime or sport
3. I am normally of two types
4. Plants and animals need me when it comes to sexual reproduction
5. My brother and I fuse to form a zygote, which is the first cell of an individual

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Gamete

1. I am a type of plant belonging to the family Fabaceae

2. Botanically, I am considered a fruit, since my seeds develop from the ovary of a

flower.

3. However, I am considered to be a vegetable in cooking

4. I owe my popularity in science to an Austrian Monk who used me for his studies

5. Mendel chose me in his studies in inheritance, which revolutionized people’s

knowledge in genetics.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: (Garden) Pea

1. I am a type of hereditary condition

2. You may refer to me as Royal, since I was once prevalent among royal families of
England

3. Like most recessive sex-linked, X chromosome disorders, I am more likely to occur in

males than females.

4. The blood plasma clotting factor levels of the coagulation factors needed for a normal
clotting process of my victims are lowered.

5. I am known as the bleeders’ disease, because the blood of affected persons does not clot.

WHO AM I
 ANSWER: Haemophilia

1. My cousin and I attended G-Poly

2. While my cousin was in the alpha class, I was in the beta class
3. Hydrogen bonds between my strands are mighty and strong
4. So while my body is firm and rigid my cousin’s body is a little loose and porous
5. I am abundant in trees and other plants
6. Cotton fibre is nothing but almost 100 % percent me
Who am I?

Ans: Cellulose

1. In the early classification schemes, we were regarded as a "natural" group.

2. There are more than 1000extant or currently living species of me.
3. Conifers are by far my largest living group.
4. Our name literally means naked seeds.
5. Together with angiosperms we compose the spermatophytes or seed plants.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Gymnosperms

1. We live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land,

2. We are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws.
3. We are decapod crustaceans.
4. We make up about 20% of all marine crustaceans caught, farmed, and consumed
worldwide.
5. The mode of articulation of our legs makes a sidelong gait more efficient than forward
movement.
6. We typically walk sideways, a behaviour which gives us the word crabwise.

Who are we?

ANSWER: Crabs

7. I am a structure associated with the nervous system.

8. The first part of my name is familiar to electricians, athletes and swimmers.
9. Actually I am just an elongated cell.
10. I play an important role during reflex actions.
11. I have two siblings who are not in close contact with each other.
12. I form a bridge between my two siblings
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Relay

I am an infectious bacterial disease

1. The bacterium that is responsible for my occurrence is rod shaped
2. My occurrence can be prevented by vaccination
3. I normally spread from person to person through the air
4. I can also infect people who drink milk from infected cows
5. I cause weight loss and persistent cough, sometimes with blood in sputum.
Who am I?

Answer: tuberculosis or (TB)

1. I am a phylum of organisms

2. My members mark the origin of a body plan characteristic of the most successful of all
animal groups

3. This innovation was the development of jointed appendages

4. the body plan of my members has a second innovation which is the possession of a rigid
exoskeleton

WHO AM I
ANSWER: Arthropoda

1. You may call me a smaller division of a family.

2. My members have very similar features and are closely related.

3. In spite of that, they cannot interbreed to produce offspring..

4. In fact, I am one of the seven major ranks into which taxonomists classify living
organisms.

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Genus/Genera
1. I am one of the earliest taxonomists

2. My classification of animals was based on whether they possessed red blood or not

3. In the case of plants, I used appearance and size to group them into trees, shrubs and
herbs

4. I was a Greek Philosopher and a biologist

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Aristotle

1. I am one of the polymers that occur in nature.

2. Chemically I am a condensation polymer
3. I am a major source of energy to some large families in the animal kingdom.
4. My monomers are joined through carbon-oxygen-carbon bonds
5. Unfortunately human beings cannot break me down in their system.
6. Like starch I am made up of glucose units
Who Am I? –

ANSWER: Cellulose

1. I am a deep sea animal abundant in warm waters

2. Even though I do not know how to write, I have an ink gland that ejects a cloud of ink
which protects me from detection by predators
3. Devil fish is an alternate (and rather obsolete) name of me
4. But my real name literally means 8 feet and indeed, I have eight arms surrounding my
head.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Octopus

1. I am a composite organism.
2. My properties are very different from the properties of my component organisms.
 3. I come in many colours, sizes, and forms.
4. I normally grow on the bark of trees, leaves, mosses, bare rock, walls, gravestones,
roofs and exposed soil surfaces.
5. I arise from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic
relationship.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Lichen

1. I am a term of common parlance, but I have no universally recognised precise definition.

2. I provide ecosystem services to humans and serve as tourist attractions.
3. I account for 75% of the gross primary productivity of the Earth's biosphere.
4. I am the dominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth.
5. I am a large area of land covered with trees or other woody vegetation.

Who am I?
ANSWER: Forest

1. I am used in many disciplines and subjects.

2. I am used to refer to the genus of the chaetal deer.
3. In Physics, I am a line of rotational symmetry in an optical system.
4. In mathematics I am lines used in a Cartesian coordinate system.
5. Inanatomy I am the second cervical vertebra(C2) of the spine.
6. My prominent feature is a tooth-like projection called the odontoid process.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Axis

1. I am a central idea in evolutionary theory.

2. I am a property, not of an individual, but of a class of individuals.
3. I can be defined either with respect to a genotype or to a phenotype in a given
environment.
4. In either case, I describe the ability to both survive and reproduce.
5. Without differences in me natural selection cannot act and adaptation cannot occur.
6. I am often defined as a tendency or probability, rather than the actual number of
offspring.
Who am I?
ANSWER: (Biological) Fitness

1. I am a biological process.
2. I can be thought of in a general sense as anything expanding into greater being from a
small existence.
3. The absorption of water, the passage of time, chilling, warming, oxygen availability, and
light exposure may all operate in initiating my process.
4. I can also be used to refer to the emergence of cells from resting spores.
5. The most common example of me is the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an
angiosperm or gymnosperm.
who am I?
ANSWER: Germination

1. I am a metabolically active tissue composed of several types of cells

2. I come in a variety of shapes and sizes and have a complex internal and external structure
3. I consist of living cells embedded in a mineralized organic matrix.
4. I am lightweight yet strong and hard, and serve multiple functions
5. In the human body, my smallest form is the stapes in the middle ear
6. Unfortunately I am affected by a number of diseases, including arthritis, infections,
osteoporosis and tumours.
who am I?
ANSWER: Bone

1. I am a form of asexual reproduction.

2. I am sometimes used inaccurately to describe reproduction modes in hermaphroditic
species.
3. I am seen to occur naturally in aphids, nematodes, and some other invertebrates, as well
as in many plants.
4. A form of asexual reproduction related to me is gynogenesis.
5. I am the form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos
occur without fertilization.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Parthenogenesis

1. We are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates.

2. We inhabit a wide variety of habitats.
3. We use our skin as a secondary respiratory surface.
4. Our young ones generally undergo metamorphosis from larva with gills to an adult
air-breathing form with lungs.
5. Our name is derived from an Ancient Greek term, which means "both kinds of life”.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Amphibians

1. I may be a unit of volume or capacity.

2. I am used in dry and liquid measure, which is equal to 1/4 of a British Imperial pint
(142 millilitres).
3. I am also a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms.
4. I usually consist of thin filaments of tissue.
5. In bony fishes, I lie in a branchial chamber covered by a bony operculum.
6. Sharks and rays typically have five pairs of me in the form of slits.
Who am I?
ANSWER: (A) Gill

1. I am a metabolic pathway

2. My wide occurrence indicates that I am one of the most ancient known metabolic pathways

3. I am the first stage of the process of respiration

4. I occur in the cytosol or cytoplasm of the cell

5. I am the metabolic pathway that converts glucose into pyruvate

6. My name literally means degradation of glucose

Who am I?

ANSWER: Glycolysis

I am one of the phyla of the kingdom plantae.

1. We are plants that are capable of producing flagellated sperms.
2. The sperms require water to reach and fertilize our eggs
3. We lack true roots, stem and vascular tissue
4. My members thrive where the environment is moist, and in high humidity areas.
5. Some of my members are mosses and liverworts.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Bryophyta

1. I am a slow creeping organism

2. I am among the most familiar of marine animals found on the seabed.
3. My upper surface may be smooth, granular or spiny, and is covered with overlapping
plates.
4. While I lack a centralized brain,my body has complex nervous systems which are
coordinated by what might be termed a distributed brain.
5. I have five arms which give a flattened body shaped like a star

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Starfish

1. I am one of the wide diversity of protists

2. The majority of my members are unicellular, with a minority being multi-cellular
3. Most of my members live in water where they are the dominant autotrophs.
4. My name in Latin means seaweed
5. The study of my members is known as Phycology

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Algae

1. I am an organism whose name in Latin means doll

2. I am a distinct juvenile form some animals undergo before becoming adults
3. My appearance is generally very different from the adult form
4. I often have unique structures and organs that do not occur in the adult form,
5. I may also have a considerably different diet from my adult.
6. In fact I am the developmental stage that exist between larva and the adult of certain
insects

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: - Pupa

1. My name is used to describe a group of single celled organisms.

2. My members are a diverse group of unicellular eukaryotic organisms.
3. Because many of my members are motile, we were originally described as unicellular
protists with animal-like behaviour.
4. We exist throughout aqueous environments and soil, occupying a range of trophic levels.
5. Some of my members are human parasites, causing diseases.
6. Examples of human diseases caused by some of my members are: Malaria, Sleeping
Sickness and Dysentery.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Protozoa
1. You may refer to me as the earliest stage of a diploid generation.
2. I contain DNA derived from both parents, and this provides all the genetic information
necessary to form a new individual.
3. In single-celled organisms, I undergo meiosis to produce offspring.
4. In multicellular organisms, I am the earliest developmental stage of the embryo.
5. I am the cell created by the union of two gametes.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER - Zygote

1. I am a type of reproduction
2. I have two different meanings depending on whether I occur in plants or in animals.
3. In animals I am used to describe the development of the embryo inside the body of the
mother, eventually leading to live birth, as opposed to laying eggs.
4. In plants I am used to describe reproduction that develops from the outset without
interruption, as opposed to germinating externally from a seed.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Viviparous (Viviparity)

1. We are a group of organic compounds with diverse biochemical functions.

2. We are classified by our biological and chemical activity but not our structure.
3. We are required in limited amounts for normal growth and metabolism.
4. But we cannot be synthesized in sufficient quantities by organisms, and must be
obtained from the diet.
5. We may also be less tightly bound to enzyme catalysts as coenzymes.
6. The lack of us may result in Well-known human deficiencies such as Beriberi, night
blindness, scurvy, pellagra and others.

WHO ARE WE?

ANSWER: Vitamin
1. You may refer to me as a form of defense against predators.
2. Many types of me have been described in biology.
3. My name is derived from a Greek term which means imitative.
4. In evolutionary biology, I am used to describe the similarity of one species to another
which protects one or both.
5. This similarity can be in appearance, behaviour, sound, scent OR location.
6. I normally occur when a group of organisms known as the mimics, evolve to share
common perceived characteristics with another group, the models.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Mimicry

1. I am a form of a single-chain globular protein or amino acid in certain tissues of

vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals.
2. The colour that meat takes is partly determined by the oxidation state of the iron atom in
my molecule and the oxygen species attached to it.
3. I am structurally related to hemoglobin, which is the iron- and oxygen-binding protein in
blood, but I carry less oxygen than haemoglobin.
4. The only time one will find me in the bloodstream is when I am released following
muscle injury.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Myoglobin

1. I belong to the phylum Arthropoda.

2. I have a triangular head which bears a pair of antennae.
3. I am a voracious feeder, and always hold my victims firmly with my forelegs and eat
them alive.
4. I may be green, yellowish green or brown in colour.
5. I derive my name from my habit of standing motionless on my legs, with my forelegs
raised and folded in front as in a prayer.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Praying Mantis

1. I am one of the first hypotheses advanced in ecology.
2. But I am now an accepted phenomenon or process and my study still remains at the core
of ecological science.
3. In politics, I am used to describe the ascension to power by one ruler, official, or monarch
after the death, resignation, or removal from office of another, usually in a clearly defined
order.
4. I typify the observed process of change in the structure of species of an ecological
community over time following a disturbance.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Succession

1. I am a small dense body found in eukaryotic cells.

Two zones of me are visible, a peripheral zone containing
1. I was born to a Catholic family of a poor tanner.
2. I lived at the time when microbiology was the subject of controversy.
3. I was an average student in my early years, and not particularly academic, as my
interests were fishing and sketching.
4. Although I made groundbreaking experiments, my reputation became associated with
various controversies.
5. I established that fermentation is the result of microbial activity.
who am I?
ANSWER: Louis Pasteur

1. I am used to refer to the positional arrangement of the parts of a flower within a flower
bud before it has opened.
2. I am also a widely used strategy across all forms of hypometabolic organisms.
3. I am used to describe the state of inactivity in certain invertebrates and vertebrates.
4. I take place during times of heat and dryness.
5. I am characterized by inactivity and a lowered metabolic rate, which is entered in
response to high temperatures and arid conditions.
 Who am I?
ANSWER: Aestivation

1. William Shakespeare, in Julius Caesar uses me to describe Cassius' ill-tempered nature.

2. But, I am an organ found in virtually all vertebrates.
3. In humans, I am brownish in colour and located in the left upper quadrant of the
abdomen.
4. I play important roles in regard to red blood cells and the immune system.
5. I am the organ that is responsible for purifying the blood as well as storing blood cells.
Who am I?
ANSWER: The spleen

1. I am a specialized stem, leaf or petiole.

2. I can be formed from modified shoots, modified leaves, or auxiliary branches.
3. I do not have a lamina or blade, but I can photosynthesize.
4. I am a spirally coiling sensitive organ that serves to attach a climbing plant to its support.
5. In some parasitic plants, I am guided by airborne chemicals, and only twine around
suitable hosts.
who am I?
ANSWER: Tendrils

1. I am an extremely important molecule.

2. I was first isolated and named by two French scientists, a pharmacist and a chemist .
3. I am a term used for several closely related green pigments.
4. My molecules are specifically arranged in and around photosystems that are embedded
in the thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts.
5. I am vital for photosynthesis, since I allow plants to absorb energy from light.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Chlorophyll

1. I am a fluid associated with reptiles, birds and mammals.

2. I am a shock absorber but you will never find me in a motor car.
3. I also have nothing to do with adults, I prefer embryos.
4. I protect the embryo from desiccation and from external pressure.
5. I provide a watery environment in which the embryo can develop.
6. I am the fluid that surrounds the embryo.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Amniotic fluid

1. I am a vector but a rather strange one.

2. As a vector I have no length to boast about.
3. Really I have no direction.
4. At the same time I have an infinite number of directions.
5. In the coordinate plane, you can locate me at the origin.
6. I am the identity for vector addition.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Zero Vector/Null Vector

1. I am a class of organisms belonging to the phylum Arthropoda.

2. My members inhabit freshwater streams, ponds, rivers and marine waters.
3. My members are characterized by having two distinct regions, cephalothorax and
abdomen.
4. Within the phylum Arthropoda, I am the only class with members having 5 pairs of
walking legs each.
5. Some of my members include, Prawns, Shrimps, crabs and copepods.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Crustacea

1. I am a type of insect
2. I possess broad, flattened body and relatively small head
3. Some my members are in close association with human dwellings and widely found
around garbage or in the kitchen
4. The first four letters of my name refers to the male fowl

WHO AM I? Cockroach

1. I was an eminent Scottish botanist.

 2. I lived during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
3. After completing my studies in medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland I
joined the army as a surgeon at the young age of 22 years.
4. I was the first person to use the term cell nucleus in 1831.
5. I did not realize that the cell nucleus was present in cells other than those belonging to
plants.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Robert Brown

1. I have long played an important role in human societies.

2. In object-oriented programming, I am theabilitytoderivenew classes,
fromexistingclasses.
3. Mind you, I should not be confused with subtyping.
4. In law I am the hereditarysuccessiontoanestate,title, etc.
5. I am theprocessofgenetictransmissionoftraitsfromparentstooffspring.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Inheritance

1. I may be an electrical device or a structure on certain groups of organisms.

2. As an electrical device I convert electric power into radio waves, and vice versa.
3. In arthropods, I am connected to the front-most segments.
4. I am present in all insects; however I may be greatly reduced in the larval forms.
5. Insects bear a pair of me whereas crustaceans bear two pairs of me.
6. I am the primary olfactory sensor of insects.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Antenna

1. I am a basic unit used in computer science.

2. I am often arranged into tree structures known as binary trees.
3. In communication networks I am either a connection point, a redistribution point or a
communication endpoint.
4. The intervals on the stem of plants between me and others of my kind are called inter
nodes.
5. I am the region of a stem where leaves are attached.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Node

1. I am used to describe various features or structures in organisms.

2. In the brain, I am a stalk-like structure composed of white matter, connecting various
regions of the brain.
3. In fishes, I am the narrow part of the body to which the tail attaches.
4. I am also used to refer to a stalk supporting an animal organ, such as the eyestalk of a
lobster.
5. But, I am commonly used to describe a stalk supporting an inflorescence.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Peduncle

1. I belong to the kingdom Plantae

2. I exhibit a range of morphology from unicellular to multicellular
3. My largest and most complex forms are known as seaweeds
4. I form a symbiotic association with fungus to form a lichen
5. A gelatinous substance derived from some of my members serves as a good
medium on which to grow bacteria and fungi

WHO AM I? Alga/Algae

1. I am a membrane-bound organelle found in most eukaryotic cells

2. My name literally means "thread granule”
3. My number in a cell varies widely by organism and tissue type.
4. Many cells have only a single of me, whereas others can contain several thousands of me
5. I am sometimes described as "cellular power plants" because i generate most of the cell's
supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP),
Who am I?
 ANSWER: Mitochondrion

1. I am a specialized cell layer.

2. I am present in plants but absent in animals.
3. In most seed plants, especially woody types, I am absent from the stems but present in
roots..
4. I am made of compact living cells surrounded by an outer ring of cells that are
impregnated with hydrophobic substances.
5. I am therefore frequently a barrier to free diffusion of solutes.
6. I help regulate the movement of water, ions and hormones into and out of the vascular
system.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Endodermis

1. If I were a footballer, I could be referred to as a utility player, since one can locate me in
different positions.
2. But I am a dormant, tough, non-reproductive structure produced by a small number of
organisms from a particular family.
3. My name is suggestive of a spore or seed-like form, but I am not a true spore.
4. My primary function is to ensure the survival of the organism through periods of
environmental stress.
5. But I make good biological weapons because I can be used in small quantities to have a
large scale effect.
6. I am the active ingredient in the anthrax powder found in contaminated postal letters
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Endospore

1. In general I am quite a broad term, but in Biology I have been given a specific meaning.
2. In biology I occur when two or more clearly different phenotypes exist in the same
population of a species.
3. In Chemistry or material science I am used to describe the ability of a solid material to
exist in more than one form or crystal structure.
4. In computer science, I am a programming language feature that allows values of different
data types to be handled using a uniform interface.
5. I am common in nature; I am related to biodiversity, genetic variation and adaptation.

6. Some of my common examples in nature are sexual dimorphism, mimetic forms of

butterflies, human hemoglobin and blood types.

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: POLYMORPHISM

1. I belong to the phylum chordata and class reptilia.

2. I am well adapted to climbing and visual hunting.
3. I have the most distinctive eyes of any reptile.
4. My eyes can rotate and focus separately to observe two different objects simultaneously.
5. I have long extensible sticky tongue that can be shot out to capture my prey and then
rolled back into my mouth.
6. One unique feature of mine, is my ability to change colour according to the environment
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Chameleon

1. My name in Greek literally means "virgin" "birth".

2. I have nothing to do with Christianity, but the last seven letters of my name refers to a
book in the bible.
3. I occur naturally in many plants and some animal species.
4. I am sometimes used incorrectly to describe reproduction modes in hermaphroditic
species that can reproduce by themselves because they contain reproductive organs of
both sexes in a single individual's body.
5. I am a form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur
without fertilization.
 WHO AM I?

ANSWER: PARTHENOGENESIS

1. In some Asian cultures, I am considered a food delicacy.

2. I am also used in the food industry as a source of collagen.
3. I can be made into strong, water-resistant glue, or used to make isinglass for the
clarification of beer.
4. In China I am known as fish maw.
5. But I am an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its
buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth without having to waste energy in
swimming.
6. I am evolutionarily homologous to the lungs.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER:Swim bladder, gas bladder, or air bladder

1. I am a cluster of hormone producing cells

2. I am known to contain alpha, beta and delta cells that produce different hormones
3. I was named after a German medical student who discovered me at the age of 22
4. I am located in the pancreas
5. My cells are responsible for producing insulin which regulates the glucose level of blood
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Islets of Langerhans

1. I am a genus of common saprobic fungi

2. I can be seen with the naked eye as white fluffy mass
3. Me members are collectively referred to as pin moulds
4. I grow rapidly on moist decaying bread, fruits and other organic matter
5. My species grow as filamentous, branching hyphae that generally lack cross-wall

WHO AM I? Rhizopus

1. I am a type of asexual reproduction

 2. I normally occur in prokaryotic organisms and some organelles within eukaryotic
organisms
3. My name exists in two parts
4. The first part of my name represents the base 2 numeral system in mathematics
5. I occur when a cell (or body, population, or species) divides into two or parts and the
regeneration of each part into a separate cell
WHO AM I? Binary fission

1. I am a type of ecological association

2. My name literally means “eating at the same table”
3. My typical example is the association between the remora fish and the shark
4. In my association, one of the organisms benefits from the other without causing any
harm to the benefactor.
WHO AM I? Commensalism

1. I am member of a group of cells that perform the same function

2. The sieve tube element a I originate from the same procambial cell
3. I am completely absent in the animal kingdom
4. I fact, I am a member of the phloem tissue
5. My role is to supply energy for the transport of sucrose by the phloem
WHO AM I? Companion cell

1. I am a small soft plant

2. I possess a short stem that bears a whorl of leaf-like structures
3. I can always be found in damp or shady locations
4. Commonly, I grow with some of my members in clamps of mats

Unlike angiosperms, I am a non-vascular plant belonging to the division bryophyta

WHO AM I?Moss

1. I have as many as 24 atoms from three elements in my molecule.

2. I represent one of the contradictions of chemistry because although I have the
alkanone structure I respond favourably to Fehling’s and Tollens’ reagents.
 3. I am the sweetest member of our family.
4. If you really know who I am, you will probably call me sweetheart or honey.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Fructose

1. I am a phylum of organisms under the kingdom animalia

2. Some of my members live in the sea, some in freshwater and others on land
3. My members have a dorsal body mass known as visceral hump, with a mantle
cover which commonly secretes a shell
4. Gastropods, bivalves, and cephalopods belong to me
Who am I? Gastropoda

1. I am a saprophytic fungus
2. I reproduce asexually by budding and fission
3. I am found on the surfaces of sugary substances like fruit sugar cane and nectar of
flowers
4. People have used me for fermentation and baking throughout history
Who am I?
ANSWER: Yeast
ANSWER: Phylum Mollusca

1. I am a larval stage in the life cycle of a particular vertebrate

2. I usually live in water
3. I respire by means of gills but my adults respire by means of lungs
4. I am the larval stage of frogs and toads
Who am I?
ANSWER: Tadpole

1. I am a process which occurs in both plants and animals

2. Depending on the animal species I can occur within the body or outside the body
3. I am the fusion of gametes to initiate the development of a new individual organism
4. In Plants, I occur in flowers, whereas in mammals I occur in Females
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Fertilization

1. I am a type of ring
2. I am present in some plants but, completely missing in the animal world
3. I am the result of new growth in the vascular cambium of plants
4. Many trees in temperate zones make one of me each year, hence I can be used to
determine the age of such trees.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Annual Ring / Growth ring

1. I am the action or fact of carefully choosing someone or something as being the best
or most suitable.
2. In computing, I am a list of items on which user operations will take place.
3. I am also used to refer to the pressures on cells and organisms to evolve.
4. I do not guarantee that advantageous traits or alleles become prevalent within a
population.
5. I only occur when the individuals of a population are diverse in their characteristics.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Selection

1. I was first examined microscopically by Robert Hooke.

2. I am an impermeable, buoyant material of plant origin.
3. I am harvested for commercial use.
4. A tree continues to live and grow even when I am removed.
5. I am used in a variety of products, the most common of which is wine stoppers.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cork

1. I may be thedispositionofanindividualtoassertcontrolindealingwithothers.
 2. In neurology I am
thenormaltendencyforonesideofthebraintobemoreimportantthantheotherincontrolli
ngcertainfunctions.
3. In ecology I am the degree of predominance of one or a few species in an
ecological community.
4. In genetics I am a relationship between alleles of one gene.
5. In the relationship the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of
a second allele at the same locus.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Dominance

1. I am used to refer to the relocation of forcesforthepurpose of increasingsurvivability.

2. I may also be used to refer to the splitting up of a group of people, causing them to
leave in different directions.
3. In biology I am used to refer to the movement of individuals from their birth site to
their breeding site.
4. Or the movement from one breeding site to another.
5. I am simply the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.
Who Am I?

ANSWER:Dispersal

1. I am a form of asexual reproduction

2. I occur when a new organism develops from an outgrowth on another one due to cell
division at one particular site
3. The new organism separates from the parent organism only when it is mature, leaving
behind scar tissue
4. Yeast goes through my form of reproduction to produce daughter cells.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Budding
1. I am a type of cells in some plants
2. I normally consist of two cells
3. I am the source of both secondary xylem and secondary phloem
4. Plants that do have me do not undergo secondary growth
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vascular Cambium

1. I am found in many places throughout the natural world.

2. In pure form, I am leathery, but hardened in most uses via the deposition of calcium
carbonate
3. I am a structural carbohydrate
4. I am the main component of the cell walls of fungi and the exoskeletons of arthropods
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Chitin

1. I am a very familiar organism among my group

2. In the Akan folklore, I am portrayed as a very smart organism
3. My body consists of two parts, cephalothorax and abdomen
4. I also have a unique way of trapping other organisms
5. I produce silk threads from my abdominal segments to spin webs for trapping my prey
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Spider

1. In Latin, my name means poison

2. The name was first coined in 1898 by a Dutchman called Beijerink
3. He used this name to describe the infectious nature of certain filtered plant fluids
4. I am sometimes said to be on the boundary between what is regarded as living and
non-living
5. I am responsible for mosaic diseases in plants and the well-known HIV
WHO AM I? Virus

1. I owe my existence to Charles Elton in the 1920’s

2. His information on me was based on field observations of the numbers of animals in
different size classes
3. I am now known to exist in the form of numbers, biomass and energy
4. I am used to show feeding relationships and efficiency of energy transfer
5. My name is in 2 parts – the first representing the environment and the second a popular
architectural structure in Egypt
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ecological pyramid

1. I am a type of small insect

2. I have a special adaptation of feigning death when I am attacked
3. In the domestic setting, I am are most likely to be observed when a bag of flour is
opened
4. My presence is often indicated by the granules of the infested item sticking together in
strings, as if caught in a cobweb.
5. I have a long snout modified into a rostrum for boring into grains
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Weevil

1. I am a phylum of plants
2. My members are usually small and thrive where the environment is moist and humidity is
high
3. For this reason, my members are rare in the savanna region
4. They have no true roots and conducting tissue is absent
5. Class Hepaticeae, and class Musci are my only two classes
Who am I?
ANSWER: Phylum Bryophyta

1. I am a branch of arthropodology
2. My study is rooted in nearly all human cultures from prehistoric times.
3. My study occurs in the context of agriculture.
4. But my scientific study is believed to have began only as recently as the 16th century.
5. In fact I am the scientific study of insects.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Entomology

1. I am one of the several species of a widely cultivated genus of plants

2. My name is in six letters
3. The first three letters of my name refers to a domestic animal, while the last three denotes
a cultivated plant
4. I am a climbing annual plant, in the family Fabaceae.
5. I am cultivated for my edible seeds and pods
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cowpea

1. I am a vital organ present in vertebrates and some other animals.

2. Terminologies related to me often start with the prefixes hepar- or hepat- from a Greek
word
3. There is currently no way to compensate for the absence of my function in the long term.
4.
4. Although new dialysis techniques can be used in the short term.
5. I have a wide range of functions, including detoxification, protein synthesis, and
production of chemicals necessary for digestion.
6. I am both the largest internal organ and the largest gland in the human body
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Liver

1. I am a type of bone
2. My body is flattened and slightly curved which is relatively simple in design
3. You may call me a twin, because I am a member of two bones
4. I am the shorter of the two bones
5. In mathematics I am needed to calculate the area of a circle
6. I occur in the lower part of the forearm
Who am I?
ANSWER: Radius

1. I am a phylum belonging to the kingdom Animalia

2. I am second only in size to the phylum Arthropoda
3. I am proud to have the largest non-vertebrate animal as one of my members
4. I consist of a diverse group of organisms
5. My members include the slow moving snails, relatively sedentary bivalves and highly
active cephalopods
Who am I?
ANSWER: Phylum Mollusca

1. I am a type of organ
2. You may not be far from right if you refer to me as a three in one organ
3. Because, I consist of three sections specializing in different functions
4. I am the sense organ containing receptors sensitive to gravity, movement, and sound.
5. I habour the three smallest bones in mammals
6. In mammals, my outer part is known as the pinna, which focuses and collects sound
waves into the ear tube
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ear

1. I am a protective structure of secondary origin

2. I am completely absent in the animal world
3. Even in the plant world, I am absent in certain classes of plants
4. I am produced in plants that undergo secondary growth
5. I am the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants
6. Products used by people that are derived from me include, wall coverings, spices and
other flavorings, latex, medicines, poisons, and various hallucinatory chemicals
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Bark
1. I am a type of cell in plants
2. My name suggests that I am responsible for relocation, or removal of things
3. I fact I am a modified parenchyma cell
4. I transfer ions from my cytoplasm to my cell wall
5. Thus I move ions from the symplast into the aploplast
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Transfer cell
1. I have been a common practice for most of human history.
2. I was a highlight throughout Second World War.
3. Resource shortages caused by the world war greatly encouraged my practice.
4. I am a key component of modern waste reduction.
5. I am the process of converting waste materials into reusable objects.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Recycling (Recycle)

1. I am an isopod crustacean.
2. I have a shell-like exoskeleton, which I must progressively shed as I grow.
3. I have a lot of common names that vary throughout the English-speaking world
4. Some of my common names include: boat-builder,cheeselog,potato bug,butcher
boy,wood bug.
5. I can roll up into an almost perfect sphere as a defensive mechanism.
6. I am not a wood, neither am I a louse.
Who am I?

ANSWER: The woodlouse

6. I am used to refer to the relocation of forcesforthepurpose of increasingsurvivability.
7. I may also be used to refer to the splitting up of a group of people, causing them to
leave in different directions.
8. In biology I am used to refer to the movement of individuals from their birth site to
their breeding site.
9. Or the movement from one breeding site to another.
10. I am simply the movement or transport of seeds away from the parent plant.
Who Am I?

ANSWER:Dispersal
 .

1. I am a genus of common saprobic fungi on plants and a specialized parasite on animals.

2. I am found on a wide variety of organic substrates,
3. I grow as filamentous, branching hyphae that generally lack cross-walls (i.e. coenocytic).
4. My hyphae may form a fluffy mass, which is whitish in colour.
5. I am commonly referred to as bread mould.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Rhizopus

1. I am an organometallic compound.
2. I am also a natural product.
3. I serve as a catalyst in a transformation process.
4. I have something in common with cytochromes except that our functions are different.
5. I help to transform CO2 and water into a carbohydrate.
6. If my metal is the second member of Group (II) elements, then,
Who am I?

ANSWER: Chlorophyll.

1. I was an English physician and scientist

2. My work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other human”.
3. In 2002, I was named in the BBC's list of the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide
vote.
4. I am often called "the father of immunology”,
5. I was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, as my experiments opened the pathway of
discovery of the immune system.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Edward Jenner

1. I am a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown fluid.

2. I aid the digestion of lipids in the small intestine.
3. In humans, I am produced continuously by the liver, stored and concentrated in the
gallbladder.
4. In the absence of me, fats become indigestible and are instead excreted in faeces.
5. Besides my digestive function, I serve also as the route of excretion for by products of red
blood cells recycled by the liver.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Bile/gall

1. I am a short, thin filament.

2. I am found in fungi and in the division Bryophyta.
3. I may serve either as a feeding organ, or anchor a thallus to its substratum.
4. I am the principal feeding organ in Rhizopus.
5. In mosses and liverworts I attach the gametophyte to the substratum.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Rhizoid

1. I am made from part of the neural tube during development.

2. I am located inside the vertebral canal.
3. In humans, I am divided into 31 different segments.
4. I am the main pathway for information connecting the brain and peripheral nervous
system.
5. The brain and I together make up the central nervous system.
Who am I?

ANSWER: The spinal cord

1. I am formed during embryogenesis, along with the root and shoot meristems,
2. I am therefore present in the seed prior to germination.
3. In young seedlings of dicot plants I am photosynthetic and functionally similar to
leaves
4. The number of me present, is one characteristic used by botanists to classify the
angiosperms
5. I am also present in seedlings of gymnosperms, except that I am often variable in
number
 6. Plants with seeds that contain two of me are termed dicotyledons
Who am I?
ANSWER: Cotyledon

1. I am a structure associated with the nervous system.

2. The first part of my name is familiar to electricians, athletes and swimmers.
3. Actually I am just an elongated cell.
4. I play an important role during reflex actions.
5. I have two siblings who are not in close contact with each other.
6. I form a bridge between my two siblings
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Relay Neurone

1. I am a thin component or appendage attached to a larger body or structure.

2. I typically function as a foil that produces lift or thrust.
3. I may be a membranousappendageextendingfromthebody of some organisms.
4. I am an organ of locomotionandbalance in some aquaticanimals.
5. In most fishes, I may be paired or unpaired.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Fin
1. I am a measuring device.
2. I come in a variety of designs, but all follow the same basic principle.
3. Types of me include the Bubble, the Mass, the Ganong's and the Darwin's.
4. I am sometimes known as a transpirometer.
5. I am used to measure the rate of water loss from a plant (transpiration).
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Photometer

1. I am a biological process.
2. I involve a visible and relatively abrupt change in an animal's body structure through cell
growth and differentiation.
3. My process is always accompanied by a change of habitat or behaviour.
4. I may be complete or incomplete.
5. The groups of organisms that go through me include some insects, amphibians, molluscs,
crustaceans, and echinoderms.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Metamorphosis

1. I was first observed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 during his studies of genetics in pea
plants.
2. I occur during meiosis in eukaryotes.
3. A very noticeable feature of me is recombination.
4. I describe how different genes independently separate from one another when
reproductive cells develop.
5. I am popularly known as Mendel’s second law.
Who am I?

ANSWER: (Law of) independent assortment

1. I am a characteristic component of tropical rainforests.

2. I exist in allclasses of plants.
3. I occur in greatestnumbers in moist warmregions.
4. I manufacture my ownfood in thesamewaythatothergreenplantsdo.
5. I only grow harmlessly upon another plant and derive my moisture and nutrients from
the air, rain, and sometimes from debris.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Epiphyte

1. To some people, I am a 1987 American science fiction action horror movie.

2. The movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite special forces team.
3. Their mission was to rescue hostages from guerrilla territory in Central America.
4. But I am one of the members of an interaction between two organisms of unlike
species.
5. To the ecologist I am an animal that lives by preying on other organisms for food.
 Who am I?

ANSWER: Predator

1. I am a microscopic structure.
2. Although I am too small to be seen individually, I can be seen by the naked eye in
large quantities.
3. I come in a wide variety of shapes sizes, and surface markings.
4. In angiosperms, I am produced by the anther, which sits on the filament in the center
of the flower.
5. I represent the male portion of the reproductive process in angiosperms.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Pollen grain

1. My name represents the Latin word for "little ring".

2. In mathematics I am a ring-shaped object, especially a region bounded by two concentric
circles.
3. In mushrooms I am the ring-like remains of a membrane (called a veil), found around the
stipes of certain basidiomycetes.
4. My presence or absence is often used to identify the species of an individual mushroom.
5. In Ferns, I am a row of specialized cells of the sporangium responsible for opening the
sporangium and dispersing the spore.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Annulus

1. I possess only four pairs of chromosomes: three pairs of autosomes, and one pair of sex
chromosomes.
2. I was among the first organisms used for genetic analysis.
3. I am even a better subject for genetic studies than the garden pea.
4. The hypothesis that genes are on the chromosomes was substantiated with me as the
subject of the experiments.
5. Unfortunately, I am commonly considered a pest due to my tendency to infest habitations
and establishments where fruit is found.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Drosophila (melanogaster) \ Fruit fly
1. I am a process.
2. I normally occur in plants.
3. I result in the cooling of plants and change the osmotic pressure of cells.
4. I am involved in movement of water through a plant and its evaporation from the aerial
parts.
5. I usually occur through the stomatal apertures of the leaves.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Transpiration

1. My name was first coined by Theodor Schwann in the early 19th century.
2. He coined my name from a Greek word meaning digestion.
3. I am one of three principal protein-degrading, or proteolytic, enzymes in the digestive
system.
4. I am stored at very low temperatures to prevent autolysis (self-digestion).
5. I am secreted in an inactive form known as pepsinogen.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Pepsin

1. A tooth of an animal may have just one or multiples of me.

2. I am also a type of organ in vascular plants.
3. In most vascular plant species I enter into mutualistic association with certain fungi to
form mycorrhizae.
4. I can also protect the environment by holding the soil to prevent soil erosion.
5. The radicle is my embryonic part of the seed.
Who am I?
1. ANSWER: Root
In anatomy my name can refer to any flat structures.
2. Generally, I am used to refer to a dome-shaped structure of muscle and fibrous tissue.
3. I possess a series of apertures permitting the passage of structures.
4. I perform an important function in respiration.
 5. During inhalation, I contract thus enlarging the volume of the thoracic cavity.
6. In mammals, I separate the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Diaphragm
1. I am a process that takes place in the angiosperms.
2. I am a necessary step in the reproduction of flowering plants.
3. I am important in horticulture and agriculture, because fruiting is dependent on fertilization,
which is the result of me.
4. More commonly, my process requires reliable vectors.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pollination

1. I am a multicellular diploid eukaryote.

2. I may be a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium.
3. I could also be a young animal in an early phase of development in the egg or the
womb.
4. The science of the formation and development of me is known as embryology.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Embryo.

1. I am found in some organisms and especially common in plants.

2. I also occur in some tissues of animals that are otherwise diploid, such as human muscle
tissues.
3. I may occur due to abnormal cell division, either during mitosis, or commonly during
metaphase I in meiosis,
4. I can be induced in plants and cell cultures by some chemicals: the best being colchicine,
5. I have many types that are labelled according to the number of chromosome sets in the
nucleus:
6. I am used to refer to a numerical change in a whole set of chromosomes.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Polyploidy

1. I consist of two types of cells.

 2. One cell type is almost isodiametric in shape whereas the other cell type is tall and axially
oriented.
3. I am found in dicots and gymnosperms but not in monocots,
4. I am a cylinder of unspecialized meristem cells that divide to give new cells which then
specialize to form secondary vascular tissues.
5. I am located between the xylem and the phloem in the stem and root of a vascular plant.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Vascular cambium

1. We are members of the genus Apis.

2. We are known to communicate through many different chemicals and odours,
3. We also use specific behaviours that convey information about the quality and type of
resources in the environment, and where these resources are located.
4. We are generalist floral visitors, and will pollinate a large variety of plants.
5. We live in colonies where the workers among us sting intruders as a form of defence.
Who are we?
ANSWER: Honey bees

1. I am associated with the atmosphere.

2. I am supposed to be coloured and I wonder why?
3. I occur because of the love of some substances for the long wavelength portion of the
electromagnetic radiation.
4. The same substances allow light and UV radiation from the sun to reach the earth but stop the
infrared formed from escaping.
5. The most notorious of the substances is carbon (IV) oxide.
6. My virtual colour is green.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Greenhouse Effect.

1. I am a type of fluid.
2. I am comparable to the blood in certain features.
3. I am the immediate fluid around the cells of the body.
4. I may pick up bacteria and bring them to nodes where they are destroyed.
5. I am the fluid that circulates throughout the lymphatic system.

Who am I?

ANSWER: Lymph

1. I am a living tissue in vascular plants.

2. In trees, I am the innermost layer of the bark.
3. Some of my components include the sieve tube elements and companion cells.
4. I am concerned mainly with the transport of soluble organic materials made during
photosynthesis.
WHO AM I?

ANSWER: Phloem

1. I am a primary tissue of plant roots

2. I am located at the periphery (most outward) of the root vascular cylinder.
3. In roots of plants I am a unique tissue in that my cells continue to cycle for a long period
4. I am the site for the initiation of lateral roots and two secondary meristems, the vascular cambium
and cork cambium (phellogen).
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pericycle

1. I am modified protoplasma the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division.

2. I may be a crack or abnormal opening in a part.
3. I am also a gap or space between two adjacent teeth in the same dental arch.
4. In herbivores, I am the wide gap between the incisors and the premolars.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER:Diastema

1. I am believed to have evolved from simple sacs of the oesophagus.

2. I have a soft, sponge like texture.
3. In most frogs and other amphibians I am simple and balloon-like in structure.
4. In humans, I am located in two cavities on either side of the heart.
5. Medical terms related to me often begin with the prefix pulmo.
6. I am the essential respiration organ in many air-breathing animals.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Lung

1. I occur abundantly in the biosphere.

2. I am widely distributed in locations populated by “bacterial hosts”.
3. I have played an important role in laboratory research in the 20th century.
4. I am commonly known as bacterial virus.
5. I am a virus that infects and replicates within a bacterium.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Bacteriophages

1. I am the oldest of all lineages of land plants.

2. I am believed to be a vital link in the migration of plants from aquatic environments onto land.
3. I am also a traditional name used to refer to all land plants that do not have true vascular tissue.
4. I have a life cycle with alternation of generations.
5. I produce enclosed reproductive structures.
6. I produce neither flowers nor seeds, but I reproduce via spores.
Who am I?
ANSWER:Bryophyte

1. My name is derived from a Turkish word which means "to be curdled or coagulated or to thicken"
2. By most accounts I was created by Central Asian people.
3. In ancient Indian records, the combination of me and honey is called "the food of the gods.
4. I am produced by bacterial fermentation of milk, commonly cow milk.
5. In order to offset my natural bitterness, I am sold sweetened, flavored or in containers with fruit
or fruit jam on the bottom.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Yoghurt

1. My name is derived from a Latin word meaning "little mouse".

2. I am a soft tissue found in most animals.
3. I am one of the four fundamental types of tissue present in animals.
4. My cells contain protein filaments of actin and myosin that slide past one another.
5. My tissue functions are to produce force and cause motion, either locomotion or movement within
internal organs.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Muscle

1. I am a phenomenon in which storage space is used inefficiently, reducing capacity or performance

and frequently both.
2. I am often accepted in return for improvements in speed or simplicity.
3. I am a compositional technique in music.
4. I am a common type of vegetative reproduction in plants.

5. In my type of reproduction, an organism involved splits into fragments.

Who am I?
ANSWER: Fragmentation

1. My name is derived from the Latin word which means 'to boil’.
2. I am a Natural process that precedes human history.
3. I have been used by humans for the production of food and beverages.
4. Louis Pasteur, in a series of investigations, showed that I am initiated by living organisms.
5. In food processing, I am used to convert carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic
acids using yeasts, and bacteria.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Fermentation

1. I am a specialized type of cell found in the bodies of all major animal groups except sponges,
placozoa, and several other obscure or extinct life forms.
2. I exist in a number of different shapes and sizes and can be classified by their morphology and
function.
3. I am an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through electrical and
chemical signals.
4. I am highly specialized for the processing and transmission of cellular signals.
5. Typically, I possess a cell body, dendrites, and an axon.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Neuron

1. I am a disease caused by parasitic worms.

2. I may infect the urinary tract or intestines of my victims.
3. My Signs and symptoms may include abdominal pain, diarrhoea, bloody stool, or blood in the
urine.
4. The parasites that are responsible for the disease are released from freshwater snails that have
been infected
5. I am commonly known assnail fever orKatayama fever.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Schistosomiasis/Bilharzia

1. I am a traditional, sustainable method of agriculture which has been practised by indigenous tribes
for centuries.
2. I used to be the backbone of smallholder agriculture throughout the tropics,
3. But I have been attacked frequently in principle because I am known to degrade the fertility of
forestlands of tropical regions.
4. In my system, a plot of land is cleared and cultivated for a short period of time.
5. The cultivator then abandons the plot and allows it to revert to its natural vegetation while he
moves on to another plot.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Shifting cultivation

1. I can take the form of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.
2. I have been found to be present widely in the environment.
3. I am often classified as a point source or nonpoint source.
4. Many nations worldwide have enacted laws to regulate various types of me as well as to mitigate
the adverse effects of me.
5. I am the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pollution
1. We are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a very broad range of environments.
2. We are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments, where we often outnumber
other animals in both individual and speciescounts.
3. Depending on the species, we may be beneficial or detrimental to plant health.
4. In the soil ecosystem we can effectively regulate bacterial population and community
composition.
5. Some of our members that are commonly parasitic on humans include Ascaris, hookworm,
6. filarias, whipworms, and pinworms
Who am I?
ANSWER: Nematode
1. I am an important molecule used in many biochemical reactions
2. I have two main components.
3. I am referred to as the "Hub of Metabolism".
4. In 1963 Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology and
Medicine for their discoveries linking me and fatty acid metabolism.
5. My main function is to convey the carbon atoms within the acetyl group in me to the Krebs cycle
to be oxidized for energy production.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Acetyl coenzyme A or acetyl-CoA
1. An even number and an odd number have no common factor.
ANSWER: False [1 is a common factor]
2. Two even numbers have at least two common factors.
ANSWER: True [1 and 2 are common factors]
3. Two odd numbers have at least two common factors.
ANSWER: False

1. I derive my name from aLatin word meaning exemption from military service, tax payments or
other public services.
2. My concept hasfascinated mankind for thousands of years.
3. I involve both specific and nonspecific components.
4. I could be acquired either artificially, or naturally.
5. I am the capability of the body to resist harmful microorganisms or viruses from entering it.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Immunity

1. I am normally rectangular, but modern forms of me can be circular, irregular, or other shapes.
2. To the ecologist, I am an indispensable tool.
3. I am used to mark off at random, a physical area to isolate a sample.
4. I am therefore suitable for sampling plants, slow-moving animals, and some aquatic organisms.
5. I am popularly known by my use to determine the percentage of vegetation and animals occurring
within a marked area.
Who am I?

ANSWER: Quadrat