Are you smarter than a 16 year old? (Biology) Mystery Cache
Are you smarter than a 16 year old? (Biology)
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Most adults in the modern world consider themselves more intelligent than a 16 year=old student, but I disagree. I believe that adults are actually much less intelligent then they think. This cache will be my proof.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to answer thirty questions about biology that I, as a sophomore in high school have the answers to. If you get all of the questions correct, then you will have succeeded and will have found the cache and proven me wrong. If you use the internet to solve the questions however, then you must say in the logbook that you are not smarter than a 16 year- old. I would ask you to please be honest about this fact.
Here is what you do. Read each sophomore biology question on the attached sheet. The answer is included after each question, but the letters of each answer are scrambled. You will need to unscramble each answer. After you unscramble each answer, look at the clue in (parentheses). It will say something like (second letter). It means that once you unscramble the answer to that biology question successfully, the second letter of that answer is one of the letters you will need to spell out the correct coordinates of the cache. These letters will spell the coordinates in order from 1 to 30 and will not need to be unscrambled. The first part of the coordinates are given; they are: N40 33.ABC ; W90 00.DEF. All you need to do is spell out the last three numbers of each coordinate. Here is the quiz you will have to complete to spell out these numbers:
1. What is a membrane bound organelle that contains the cell’s DNA? (first letter)
uucsnle
2. What is a group of similar cells and their products that carry out a specific function called? (second letter)
sitseu
3. What is a well-defined, intracellular body that performs a specific function for the cell? (fifth letter)
legloanler
4. What is a cell that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles called? (last letter)
kpoeyrotar
5. What is a structure in the nucleus made of DNA and protein called? (fourth letter)
ooshmmcero
6. What is a cell that has a membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles called? (second letter)
yetekuatro
7. What is a group of tissues that performs a specific job in an organism called? (third letter)
gonra
8. What uses light energy to make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water? (second letter)
tlrhcloposa
9. What is the area between the plasma membrane and the nucleus called? (third letter)
tmpcaosyl
10. What is the movement of molecules from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration? (eighth letter)
fidfosuni
11. What is it called when the concentration of solute molecules outside the cell is lower than the concentration in the cytosol? (seventh letter)
tinyhocpo
12. What is the smallest unit that can carry on all the processes of life? (second letter)
lecl
13. What is the process by which water molecules diffuse across a cell membrane from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration? (second letter)
moosssi
14. What is it called when the concentration of solute molecules outside the cell is higher than the concentration in the cytosol? (seventh letter)
tpnheicoyr
15. What is it called when the concentration of molecules is the same throughout the space the molecules occupy? (third letter)
liqibeuaumr
16. What is the movement of large particles, or whole cells, called? (fourth letter)
goohpasitsyc
17. What organisms use inorganic substances to make organic compounds? (ninth letter)
tpsatoohur
18. What is it called when the concentration of solute molecules outside the cell is equal to the concentration in the cytosol? (fourth letter)
oiicsnto
19. What is the bursting of cells called? (third letter)
ldycostis
20. What is a rigid layer that lies outside a cell’s plasma membrane called? (fifth letter)
lecl lawl
21. What is the process by which cells ingest external fluid, macromolecules, and large particles? (first letter)
setdcyooisn
22. What is the transport of solutes or fluids called? (third letter)
tcnioypoiss
23. What is the process by which a substance is released from the cell through a vesicle that transports the substance to the cell’s surface and then fuses with the cell membrane to get out of the cell? (sixth letter)
toesxycois
24. What is it called when cells shrink away from the cell walls and turgor pressure is lost? (eighth letter)
msllpysoais
25. What is the process by which an autotroph uses sunlight to make chemical energy? (eleventh letter)
nehhpsosoityst
26. What are hair-like structures that extend from the surface of the cell where they assist in movement called? (second letter)
laici
27. What is a stack of (singular) thylakoids called? (first letter)
margun
28. What organelle captures sunlight in plants? (second letter)
stoochalprl
29. What group of organisms must get food for energy? (third letter)
tetherophors
30. What is a small pore through which plants can lose water? (first letter)
tomatas
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