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1. What is the largest organ in the human body? Reveal Answer Skin 2. What molecule carries genetic information in our cells? Reveal Answer DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) 3. What is the powerhouse of the cell? Reveal Answer Mitochondria 4. What blood cells are responsible for clotting? Reveal Answer Platelets 5. What is the study of fungi called? Reveal Answer Mycology 6. What are animals without backbones called? Reveal Answer Invertebrates 7. What’s the name of the pigment that makes leaves green? Reveal Answer Chlorophyll 8. What type of cells does HIV attack? Reveal Answer CD4 T cells 9. What are the basic building blocks of proteins? Reveal Answer Amino Acids 10. Which element makes up the majority of the air we breathe? Reveal Answer Nitrogen 11. How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have? Reveal Answer 23 pairs 12. Which type of RNA brings the information in the genetic code from the nucleus to other parts of the cell? Reveal Answer mRNA (Messenger RNA) 13. Which animal has the longest lifespan? Reveal Answer The Bowhead whale 14. What name is given to a group of lions? Reveal Answer Pride 15. What is the fastest land animal? Reveal Answer Cheetah 16. Which blood group is known as the universal donor? Reveal Answer O negative 17. What is the primary function of the red blood cell? Reveal Answer To transport oxygen 18. What is the smallest bone in the human body? Reveal Answer The stapes in the ear 19. What is the largest cell in the human body? Reveal Answer The female egg cell 20. What do you call a plant that blooms only once in its lifetime? Reveal Answer Monocarpic 21. What is the most common element in the human body? Reveal Answer Oxygen 22. What type of muscle is the heart? Reveal Answer Cardiac muscle 23. Which animal has the largest brain? Reveal Answer Sperm Whale 24. Which bird has the largest wingspan? Reveal Answer The Wandering Albatross 25. What is the name of the first cloned sheep? Reveal Answer Dolly 26. What is the process of cell division called? Reveal Answer Mitosis 27. What is the primary function of white blood cells? Reveal Answer To fight infection 28. What do you call a group of fish? Reveal Answer School 29. What is the scientific name of the wolf? Reveal Answer Canis lupus 30. What do you call a baby kangaroo? Reveal Answer Joey 31. What is the main role of the pancreas? Reveal Answer To produce insulin and digestive enzymes 32. What animal can regrow its limbs? Reveal Answer Starfish 33. What is the tallest tree in the world? Reveal Answer The coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 34. What is the process of plants making food using sunlight called? Reveal Answer Photosynthesis 35. What are the hair-like structures on cells that help with movement called? Reveal Answer Cilia 36. What bird is known for its elaborate courtship dance? Reveal Answer The Peacock 37. What do you call the shedding of an exoskeleton in arthropods? Reveal Answer Molting 38. What is the name of the phobia for spiders? Reveal Answer Arachnophobia 39. Which plant has the largest seed? Reveal Answer Coco de mer, or double coconut 40. Which mammal lays eggs? Reveal Answer Platypus 41. What does a herpetologist study? Reveal Answer Reptiles and Amphibians 42. What is the gestation period of an elephant? Reveal Answer Around 22 months 43. Which is the smallest bird in the world? Reveal Answer The bee hummingbird 44. Which animals are known for their long migration in Africa? Reveal Answer Wildebeests 45. What is the process by which a caterpillar turns into a butterfly called? Reveal Answer Metamorphosis 46. What is the main gas found in the air we exhale? Reveal Answer Carbon Dioxide 47. What do we call the study of birds? Reveal Answer Ornithology 48. What is the largest shark? Reveal Answer The whale shark 49. Which animal is known as the ship of the desert? Reveal Answer Camel 50. What is the main diet of the koala bear? Reveal Answer Eucalyptus leaves 51. Which bird is the universal symbol of peace? Reveal Answer Dove 52. What’s the most venomous snake in the world? Reveal Answer Inland Taipan 53. What are baby goats called? Reveal Answer Kids 54. Which gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere? Reveal Answer Carbon Dioxide 55. What do we call a group of crows? Reveal Answer A murder 56. What’s the smallest unit of life? Reveal Answer Cell 57. What part of the cell contains the genetic material? Reveal Answer Nucleus 58. What is the name of the bond that holds amino acids together? Reveal Answer Peptide bond 59. What is the longest type of cell in the human body? Reveal Answer Neurons 60. What is the most abundant protein in the human body? Reveal Answer Collagen 61. What is the most common blood type? Reveal Answer O positive 62. Which organ in the human body regenerates itself? Reveal Answer Liver 63. What do we call a group of jellyfish? Reveal Answer A smack 64. What is the name of the protein that helps fight infection in the body? Reveal Answer Antibodies 65. Which is the only mammal that can fly? Reveal Answer Bat 66. What is the term for an animal that only eats plants? Reveal Answer Herbivore 67. What does DNA stand for? Reveal Answer Deoxyribonucleic Acid 68. Which animal has the largest eyes? Reveal Answer Giant Squid 69. What is the average body temperature of a healthy human in Celsius? Reveal Answer 37 degrees Celsius 70. Which gland in the human body regulates metabolism? Reveal Answer Thyroid gland 71. What is the term for the ‘good bacteria’ in our gut? Reveal Answer Probiotics 72. What do we call the study of insects? Reveal Answer Entomology 73. What is the lifespan of a housefly? Reveal Answer About a month 74. What is the term for the process by which a snake sheds its skin? Reveal Answer Ecdysis 75. What is the world’s largest reptile? Reveal Answer The saltwater crocodile 76. Which planet is known as the ‘red planet’? Reveal Answer Mars 77. What part of the human body produces insulin? Reveal Answer Pancreas 78. What is the only mammal that can’t jump? Reveal Answer Elephant 79. Which is the largest butterfly in the world? Reveal Answer Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing 80. What is the tallest bird in the world? Reveal Answer Ostrich 81. What is the lifespan of a dragonfly? Reveal Answer Around six months 82. What is the name for a male bee that comes from an unfertilized egg? Reveal Answer Drone 83. Which bird can fly backwards? Reveal Answer Hummingbird 84. Which part of the human body has the most bones? Reveal Answer Hand 85. What is the name for an animal that eats both plants and animals? Reveal Answer Omnivore 86. What part of the plant conducts photosynthesis? Reveal Answer Leaf 87. What is the study of heredity called? Reveal Answer Genetics 88. What type of disease is caused by an inability to clot blood? Reveal Answer Hemophilia 89. What is the name for a baby swan? Reveal Answer Cygnet 90. What is the largest organ in the human body? Reveal Answer Skin 91. What is the term for a female deer? Reveal Answer Doe 92. Which bone is the longest in the human body? Reveal Answer Femur 93. What part of the body does a snake use to smell? Reveal Answer Tongue 94. What is the process by which a butterfly comes out of its cocoon? Reveal Answer Eclosion 95. What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere? Reveal Answer Nitrogen 96. What is the world’s most poisonous plant? Reveal Answer Castor oil plant 97. What is the hardest substance in the human body? Reveal Answer Tooth enamel 98. Which species of fish is known as the ‘King of the Sea’? Reveal Answer Great White Shark 99. Which part of the human brain is the largest? Reveal Answer Cerebrum Sharing is Caring: