Quiz

Q1. Which particle might hold the answer to the imbalance of the Universe?

Q2. Which part of the human brain commands movement?

Q3. What was Ian Burkhart able to do thanks to the electronic interface that relayed his thoughts to his hand?

Q4. How many genes has Craig Venter found to be necessary to build the smallest functional genome?

Q5. How many different microbial species have been estimated to live on Earth?

Q6. What percentage of Earth’s microbes are still undiscovered, according to a recent PNAS study?

Q7. Researchers started with the genes of which bacterial species to create a synthetic genome?

Q8. Which rare atom is a signature of stardust?

Q9. What is the Veil Nebula a remnant of? Q10. What are some uses proposed for organisms with synthetic genomes?

Q11. Which family of flowering plants was Charles Darwin most interested in?

Q12. What did German paleontologist Otto Schindewolf suggest caused the end-permian mass extinction 250 million years ago?