Cell Biology Trivia
From ATP energy bills to the mitochondria's hostile takeover of your textbooks, prove you're the smartest organism in the room.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Often called the 'control center' of a eukaryotic cell, the nucleus stores the organism's genetic information in what form?
DNA
Often defining a transition to Stage 4 cancer, what is the biological term for cancer cells spreading from a primary tumor to distant parts of the body?
Metastasis
In eukaryotic cells, during which direction—5' to 3' or 3' to 5'—does a ribosome scan an mRNA strand to locate the start codon?
5' to 3'
What hydrostatic pressure is generated by the central vacuole to push against the cell wall and keep a plant's stems and leaves rigid?
Turgor pressure
In the cell membrane's phospholipid bilayer, the water-repelling hydrophobic tails cluster together and are shielded from water in which part of the structure?
The interior