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 taught as one of the first concepts in basic biology, what three-word nickname is most commonly used to describe mitochondria?
Powerhouse of the cell
Often called the 'control center' of a eukaryotic cell, the nucleus stores the organism's genetic information in what form?
DNA
Often described as the 'protein factories' of the cell, which organelles are responsible for reading mRNA to synthesize proteins?
Ribosomes
First described by Watson and Crick in 1953, what geometric name is given to the twisted ladder-like structure of DNA?
Double helix
What fundamental biological process do chloroplasts carry out by capturing light energy from the sun and converting it into glucose?
Photosynthesis