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BIOLOGY TRIVIA

Sub-Categories: Animal Trivia

General Biology Trivia Questions:

1) What is the most common element in the human body?

Choose Your Answer: A: Carbon, B: Hydrogen, C: Oxygen, D: Calcium

2) What is the scientific term for the production of light by living organisms?

Choose Your Answer: A: Syzygy, B: Photosynthesis, C: Bioluminescence, D: Luminary


Effervescence

3) Unlike most other fish, sharks have no ______?

Choose Your Answer: A: Liver, B: Gills, C: Heart, D: Bones

4) What human organ cleans fifty gallons of blood every day?

Choose Your Answer: A: Liver, B: Kidneys, C: Heart, D: Stomach

5) What illness accounted for 40 percent of U.S. military casualties during World War I?

Choose Your Answer: A: Gangrene, B: Smallpox, C: Syphilis, D: Influenza

6) What living animal has the heaviest brain?

Choose Your Answer: A: African Bush Elephant, B: Black Rhinoceros, C: Sperm Whale,
D: Human

7) What is the scientific term for an apparent "throwback" characteristic of an organism that
reveals a trait of an earlier ancestor?

Choose Your Answer: A: Atavism, B: Dormancy, C: Meiosis, D: Commensalism


8) Which of the following has more bones?

Choose Your Answer: A: Baby, B: Teenager, C: Adult, D: All are the same

9) Which of the following has the longest recorded life span?

Choose Your Answer: A: Termite, B: Chimpanzee, C: Indian Elephant, D: Freshwater Oyster

10) What was the first genetically engineered organism?

Choose Your Answer: A: Corn, B: Tobacco, C: Sheep, D: Rat

1. That's right! Oxygen is the most common element in the human body, making up almost 63% of the average
man.
COMPOSITION OF THE HUMAN BODY

Element Percentage of Human Body


Oxygen 62.81
Carbon 19.37
Hydrogen 9.31
Nitrogen 5.14
Sulfur 0.64
Phosphorus 0.63
Other 2.10

2. That's right! Many plants and animals are capable of producing


visible light.
The scientific term for this phenomenon is bioluminescence.

3. That's right!

Unlike most other fish, a shark has no bones! Its skeleton is made of
cartilage, a material somewhat softer and more flexible than bone

4. That's right!

Your kidneys filter fifty gallons of blood every day, producing about 1.5
liters of urine!

5. That's right!

The Flu killed 43,000 American servicemen mobilized for World War I,
representing nearly 40 percent of U.S. military casualties.

6. That's right!

Sperm Whales have the heaviest brain of any living animal. The average
Sperm Whale's brain weighs more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms) which is
about 4 times heavier than the average human brain.

7. That's right!

Atavism is an apparent "throwback" characteristic of an organism that


reveals a trait of an earlier ancestor.

8. That's right!

A baby has more bones. As they grow, some of their bones fuse together.

9. That's right!

Of these animals, the Freshwater Oyster has the longest recorded life
span at 80 years. The longest recorded life span for a termite is 50 years;
for a chimapanzee, 50 years; and for an Indian elephant, 70 years.

10. That's right!

In 1983, the first genetically engineered organism, a tobacco plant


designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconson.

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