Contest 1

1. I am a broad term for a group of natural pigments found in most organisms

2. I am produced by the oxidation of the amino acid tyrosine, followed by
polymerization.
3. I am produced in a specialized group of cells known as melanocytes
4. I protect the skin against harmful light from the sun
5. In humans, I am the primary determinant of skin color

WHO AM I? Melanin
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Contest 2

1. My name means “many legs”

2. I am used to represent any member of several closely related groups of the
invertebrate phylum Arthropoda
3. My members are typically found in forests and other ecosystems
4. The primary significance of my members is the role they play in the
ecological balance of forested regions
5. Certain tropical species can inflict painful bites on humans if handled or
accidentally encountered.
6. Diplopods and chilopods are members of my group

WHO AM I? Myriapod
Contest 3
1. I am used to describe a group of arthropods that include more than one
million described, species most of which are insects,
2. In terms of sheer number of species, no other group in the kingdom
Animalia comes close to my members
3. The success of my members in colonizing land, can be attributed to their
body plan as well as flying skills.
4. The most distinctive feature of my members is the reduction in walking
appendages to six,
5. This is in contrast to other arthropods, most of which have more than three
pairs of legs.
6. My name in Greek literally means six feet

WHO AM I? Hexapods
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Contest 4
1. I am an invertebrate with a hard protective exoskeleton
2. It’s easy for people to forget that I am in the same family as spiders and ants.
3. Because I am considered a luxury food today,
4. I have long body with muscular tails, and live in crevices or holes on the sea
floor
5. I am a large marine crustacean with a cylindrical body, stalked eyes, and the
first of my five pairs of limbs modified as pincers.

WHO AM I? Lobster
Contest 5
1. My cellular composition varies from group to group in the animal kingdom
2. I am sometimes called a fluid “tissue,”
3. Because like solid tissues I contain several types of cells which perform
complex functions for the human body.
4. My components are produced mainly in the bone marrow
5. I am the body fluid in humans and other animals that delivers the essential
materials for life to the body’s cells.
6. Despite looking like a simple red fluid, I am as complex as any tissue in the
body.
WHO AM I? Blood
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Contest 6
1. I am a type of tissue with cells that are rigid and non-stretchable
2. My cells are usually found in non-growing regions of plant bodies, such as
the bark or mature stems
3. My cells occur in many different shapes and sizes, but two main types are
fibres and sclereids.
4. I am one of the three types of ground, or fundamental, tissues in plants;
5. The other two types are parenchyma (living thin-walled tissue) and
collenchyma (living support tissue with irregular walls).

WHO AM I? Sclerenchyma
Contest 7

1. I am a thin layer of tissue.

2. I am actually an extension of the brain,
3. I am formed embryonically from neural tissue and connected to the brain
proper by the optic nerve
4. I am a complex transparent tissue consisting of several layers,
5. Only one of my layers contains light-sensitive photoreceptor cells
6. My function is to convert light into neural signals, and send these signals on
to the brain for visual recognition.
WHO AM I? The retina
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Contest 8
1. I got my name from two Greek words which literally mean woman and
house.
2. My development and arrangement is important in systematic research and
identification of angiosperms
3. I am often referred to as the "female" portion of the flower,
4. Flowers that bear me but lack stamens are called pistillate or carpellate
5. Flowers lacking me are called staminate.

WHO AM I? Gynoecium

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Contest 9
1. Our name portrays something that has no meaning or make no sense.
2. But functionally, we do make sense
3. We are three nucleotide triplets
4. We are so called because we do not specify any amino acid.
5. The presence of anyone of us causes termination of translation (ending
polypeptide chain synthesis).
WHO AM WE? Nonsense codon(s)

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Contest 10

1. I am an elastic vessel
2. I am classified in a number of ways,
3. This includes superficial, deep, pulmonary, systemic, large and small.
4. I am sometimes called "capacitance vessel" because most of the blood
volume (60%) is contained within me
5. My principal function is to return blood from organs to the heart
WHO AM I? Vein
Contest 11
1. I am part of the mammalian integumentary system and serve to protect the
body against germs
2. In humans, I occur in the greatest number on the face and scalp
3. But I also occur on all parts of the skin except the palms of the hands and
soles of the feet
4. I am a microscopic exocrine gland in the skin that secrete an oily or waxy
matter, called sebum
5. Which lubricates and waterproof the skin and hair of mammals
WHO AM I? Sebaceous gland
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Contest 12
1. My function differs slightly according to whether I am used in botany or
zoology.
2. In zoology, I am a differentiated area of surface in an egg, through which a
sperm enters
3. In botany, I am a minute opening in the integument of an ovule of a seed
plant
4. It is through me that the pollen tube enters the ovule depositing the sperm
which will result in the fertilization.
5. I also help in absorbing water at the time of germination of the seed

WHO AM I? Micropyle
Contest 13
1. My name comes from the Latin verb “cluo,” meaning “to cleanse.”
2. In animals where I am present, both the intestinal and urinary tracts end at
my end.
3. This makes me the animal’s all-purpose waste-elimination site.
4. In most birds, both males and females use me to mate
5. I am an orifice through which urine and feces are eliminated in birds,
reptiles, amphibians.

WHO AM I? Cloaca
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Contest 14
1. I am used to describe some small crustaceans that constitute important
zooplankton species.
2. The organism have a lifecycle similar to that of other crustaceans
3. These organisms can be found in both the upper waters and bottom of
oceans and freshwater bodies, as well as swamps, and other wet habitats
4. Some of my members that reside near the surface of large water bodies
typically consume phytoplankton
5. Species residing on the ocean floor or other similar habitats have specialized
mouth parts that are capable of scraping organic waste products and
associated bacteria for consumption.
6. Others are parasitic species and will derive nutrients from a host

WHO AM I Copepods
Contest 15
1. Mammals and teleosts are believed to have inherited me from their common
bony fish ancestors
2. I can take several forms, and can differ in complexity, shape and function,
depending on the requirements of the animal that I am present.
3. I am present in most vertebrates consisting of mineralized tissue in the form
of bone and cartilage
4. Although I am absent in majority of invertebrates, I am present in a select
few invertebrates such as squid and octopus, as well as echinoderms such as
starfish and sea urchins
5. I am the skeleton that provides structural support and protection for the
internal organs and tissues of an organism.
WHO AM I? Endoskeleton
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Contest 16
1. My name literally means “opposing life"
2. My name was first coined by Selman Waksman, a Nobel Laureate.
3. Who received The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1952
4. For his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against
tuberculosis.
5. He defined me as a substance produced by a micro-organism which in low
concentration is antagonistic to the growth of other micro-organism.
WHO AM I? Antibiotic
Contest 17
1. We are among a group of molecules that have been given a generic name
because of our function.
2. We are secreted by different exocrine glands
3. We get busy as soon as you take your first bite,
4. We are therefore the workhorses of your digestive system
5. We are the enzymes that are found in the digestive tracts of animals
(including humans) and in the traps of carnivorous plants
6. Our main function is to break down polymeric macromolecules into their
smaller building blocks, in order to facilitate their absorption by the body.

WHO AM I? Digestive enzymes

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Contest 18
1. I am a phenomenon in plants
2. I have been a subject of considerable research over many years
3. I am thought to be caused by the apical bud producing IAA (auxin) in
abundance.
4. Which causes the lateral buds in plants to remain dormant.
5. I am used to describe the control of the shoot tip of plants over axillary bud
outgrowth

WHO AM I? Apical dominance

Contest 19
1. I am used to describe a person beginning and showing signs of promise in a
particular domain
2. I am also used to describe a person’s body part becoming larger as part of
normal growth.
3. I am a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from
an outgrowth
4. The new organism remains attached to the parent organism as it grows,
5. And separates from the parent organism only when it is mature, leaving
behind scar tissue.
WHO AM I? Budding
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Contest 20

1. We are the most prominent exception to Mendel's Law of Independent

Assortment
2. We show dihybrid ratio of 3:1
3. We show a test cross ratio of 1:1., in a dihybrid cross
4. We do not assort independently of each other
5. But we may become separated via recombination (due to crossing over
during synapsis in meiosis I)
6. We are genes that are likely to be inherited together because we are
physically close to one another on the same chromosome.
WHO AM I? Linked genes (Genetic linkage)
Contest 21
1. I am a process named after a famous pioneer microbiologist.
2. I am used widely in the dairy industry and other food processing industries
to achieve food preservation and food safety
3. Unlike sterilization, I am not intended to kill all microorganisms in the food.
4. Instead, I aim to reduce the number of viable pathogens so they are unlikely
to cause disease
5. I was invented by French scientist Louis Pasteur during the nineteenth
century
6. I am the process that kills microbes (mainly bacteria) in food and drink, such
as milk, juice, canned food, and others.
7. I am the reason for milk's extended shelf life
WHO AM I? Pasteurization
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Contest 22
1. I am a tough natural product formed from a mixture of several compounds
2. Chemically I consist mainly of esters of fatty acids and various long-chain
alcohols
3. I am a very useful by-product of the bee keeping industry
4. I have long-standing applications in human food and flavoring.
5. Principally, I am used by bees in making their honeycombs.

WHO AM I? Beeswax
Contest 23
1. I am a component of an integrated pest management strategy.
2. There are three major types of me: classical, inoculative and inundative.
3. These are distinguished by the input needed to create a balance between the
pest and natural enemy populations.
4. My technique relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or other natural
mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role
5. I am a method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and plant
diseases using other organisms
WHO AM I? Biological control or biocontrol
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Contest 24

1. I am one of the historical sciences

2. My observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC
3. My simplest definition is "the study of ancient life"
4. I lie on the border between biology and geology,
5. I aim to describe phenomena of the past and reconstruct their causes.
6. Hence I have three main elements: description of the phenomena;
developing a general theory about the causes of various types of change; and
applying those theories to specific facts.
7. My study includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and
interactions with each other and their environments
WHO AM I? Paleontology / Study of fossils
Contest 25
1. I am fast swimming organism, but prefer to slowly crawl along the sea
bottom.
2. I am an amazing creature, but there are plenty of fun facts to discover about
me as well.
3. I appear in folklore as sea monster
4. There are many stories about humans being killed by me but most of them
aren’t true at all.
5. I am Sometimes called the Devil Fish due to my appearance
6. I am considered to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates.
7. I am a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
WHO AM I? Octopus
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Contest 26
1. My evolutionary origin is unclear, though I am believed to be remnant of
the actual gametophyte
2. In some seed, I persist to the mature seed stage as a storage tissue,
3. In others, I am absorbed during embryo development, and the function of
storage tissue is performed by enlarged cotyledons
4. In certain species, the storage function is distributed between the embryo
and I
5. I surround the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch though I
can also contain oils and protein.
6. I am the tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants
following fertilization.
WHO AM I? The Endosperm
Contest 27
1. I can be classified as acquired or inherited disorder.
2. But typically, I am an inherited genetic disorder.
3. I can make some educational activities difficult
4. I also make some activities such as buying of fruits, picking clothing, and
reading traffic lights more challenging,
5. Based on clinical appearance, I may be described as total or partial
6. I am the decreased ability of an individual to see colour or differences in
color.
WHO AM I? Colour blindness / Color vision deficiency
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Contest 28
1. I am inherently a dynamic and complex system that is affected by different
factors such as tillage, roots, biological activities, and rainfall events.
2. In turn, I equally interact and affect the root growth and function, soil fauna
and biota, water and solute transport processes, gas exchange, and thermal
conductivity
3. Ignoring me or viewing me as “static” can lead to poor predictions of soil
properties and might significantly affect the soil management
4. My decline under irrigation is usually related to the breakdown of aggregates
and dispersion of clay material as a result of rapid wetting.
5. I describe the arrangement of the solid parts of the soil and of the pore
spaces located between
WHO AM I? Soil structure
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 Contest 29
1. I am used to represent a class of compounds
2. These compounds have many functions within cells.
3. First and foremost, they are used to produce and store energy.
4. Most organisms create energy by breaking down a member of my
compounds, and harvesting the energy released from the bonds.
5. Glucose is one of my important members that provides both energy and
structure to many organisms.

WHOM AM I? Monosaccharide

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Contest 30
1. Farmers have long recognized me as a possible means to restore or to
maintain a productive soil.
2. I help in reducing soil erosion and increase soil fertility and crop yield.
3. I am done so that the soil of farms is not used for only one set of
nutrients.
4. I contribute to increased yields through improved soil nutrition.
5. I am the practice of growing a series of dissimilar or different types of
crops in the same area in sequenced seasons
WHO AM I? Crop rotation
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Contest 31

1. I am a controversial concept, based on equilibrium system theory

2. I can be caused by either livestock in poorly managed agricultural
applications, game reserves, or nature reserves
3. I reduce the usefulness, productivity, and biodiversity of land and am one
cause of desertification and erosion.
4. I am also seen as a cause of the spread of invasive species of non-native
plants and of weeds.
5. I occur when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of
time,
WHO AM I? Overgrazing
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Contest 32
1. I am a term used in fields as varied as mathematics, statistics, botany, earth
science and social sciences
2. In social sciences I am used to refer to the grouping of a society into levels
based on power or socioeconomic status
3. In archeology I am the formation of layers in which objects are found
4. In in the field of ecology, I classify the layers of vegetation largely
according to the different heights to which their plants grow.
5. In water biology, I am the formation of water layers based on salinity and
temperature.
6. In clinical trials, I am the partitioning of subjects by a factors other than the
intervention

WHO AM I? Stratification
Contest 33
1. I am a type of parasitic nematode worm
2. I inhabit the intestines of humans and other animals
3. My eggs occur in the stool of infected people
4. If these end up in the environment, they can hatch into immature worms,
which can then penetrate the skin
5. I have hook-like mouthparts with which I attach myself to the wall of the gut
of infected individual, puncturing their blood vessels and feeding on their
blood.

WHO AM I? Hookworm
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Contest 34
1. My name sounds like a piece of metal that has been cut into a special shape
and is used for opening or closing a lock
2. But, I am one of the most useful tools available to scientists
3. In Biology, I am constructed so that the user is presented with a series of
choices about the characteristics of an unknown organism
4. By making the correct choice at each step, the user is ultimately led to the
identity of an object or specimen
5. I am a printed or computer-aided device that aids the identification of
objects or biological entities such as plants, animals, fossils,
microorganisms, pollen grains

WHO AM I? Identification key, / Taxonomic key

Contest 35
1. In chemistry, I am the splitting of bonds in molecules.
2. In cell biology, I am the act or state of splitting or dividing a cell,
particularly during the telophase of animal cell division
3. In embryology, I am the repeated division of a fertilized ovum producing a
cluster of cells with the same size as the original zygote.
4. The different cells derived from my process are called blastomeres
5. I am the embryonic cell division that occurs without cell growth.

WHO AM I? Cleavage
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Contest 36
1. I am a biological process
2. My name comes from a Greek word which means “put off.”
3. My process is necessary in order for some organisms to grow
4. In arthropods, I occur after a series of steps that are mediated by a hormone
called ecdysone
5. I describe the process by which arthropods and insects shed their outer
cuticle (exoskeleton),
WHO AM I? Ecdysis
Contest 37
1. I am a physiological phenomenon
2. I was first described in 1904 by a Danish physiologist
3. Who is known for his two contributions to medical science
4. An 1891 study of the exchange of gases in respiration
5. And the discovery that the affinity of blood for oxygen depends on carbon
dioxide
6. I show that the presence of carbon dioxide helps the release of oxygen from
haemoglobin,
WHO AM: The Bohr effect.
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Contest 38

1. In bacteriology I was first demonstrated in 1928 by a British bacteriologist

2. Who was interested in determining whether injections of heat-killed bacteria
could be used to vaccinate mice against pneumonia?
3. I am one of the three processes for horizontal gene transfer, in which
exogenous genetic material passes from one bacterium to another,
4. The other two are conjugation and transduction
5. I may also be used to describe the insertion of new genetic material into
nonbacterial cells
6. In mathematics I am a process by which one figure, expression, or function
is converted into another one of similar value.

WHO AM I? Transformation
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Contest 39
1. I am a very simple aquatic research equipment
2. I am believed to have been developed by a British military surgeon, marine
biologist, zoologist, botanist and published naturalist
3. My second recorded use was by Charles Darwin, during the Beagle survey
voyage
4. I consist of a towing line and bridles, nylon mesh net, and a cod end.
5. I am considered one of the oldest, simplest and inexpensive methods of
sampling planktons in standing bodies of water.
6. I allow researchers to analyze plankton both quantitatively (cell density, cell
colony or biomass) and qualitatively
WHO AM I? Plankton net
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Contest 40

1. I am sometimes referred to as the 'Ladder of Life',

2. But I am often not considered when it comes to great biological discoveries
3. I was one of the first scientists to organize living things, thus among other
things I studied, I was a taxonomist.
4. My work on the classification of living things was revolutionary at my time
5. I developed the first classification system, which divided all known
organisms into two groups, plants and animals
6. I was a Greek philosopher and scientist, better known as the teacher of
Alexander the Great.

WHO AM I? Aristotle