What does the substance melanin control?
Answer
Color Of The Skin
131 Biology Trivia Questions with Answers
131 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What does ER (of a cell) stand for?
Answer
Endoplasmic Reticulum
What does an ornithologist study?
Answer
Birds
What do you count on a tree to tell how old it is?
Answer
Rings
What do conifers use to hold seeds?
Answer
Pine Cones
What caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840's?
Answer
Blight
What body system is the human heart part of?
Answer
Circulatory System
What are the tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins?
Answer
Capillaries
What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
Answer
Alveoli
What are the small bones that make up a backbone called?
Answer
Vertebrae
What are the single thread-like cells on the root epidermis called?
Answer
Root Hairs
What are the gaps between nerve cells called?
Answer
Synapses
What are chitterlings?
Answer
The Intestines Of A Pig
What arctic sea whale has one long horn on its head?
Answer
Narwhal
Trisomy-21 is popularly known as what?
Answer
Down Syndrome
The first vaccine targeted which disease?
Answer
Smallpox
How many joints does an ant have in each leg?
Answer
Three
From what tree did aspirin originally derive?
Answer
Willow
By what process do plants use chlorophyll to make glucose, a food sugar?
Answer
Photosynthesis
About how long is the human small intestine?
Answer
18 Feet
A person who specializes in the study of plants is called what?
Answer
Botanist