Week 3 Trivia - Science

Hello all, sorry for the delay in the trivia this week... sick baby and trying to catch up on sleep puts the trivia on the back burner. We chose a science theme this week. These questions, as all our trivia questions, are designed to be a little challenging... we want to work your brain! :)  But these are also designed to be more general knowledge. Mike even came up with a few and I made sure he could answer or at least have a good guess at the ones I came up with (he also made me take out a couple that he "didn't like"). So here goes. Good luck, and try to answer on your own, but hey we don't grade you so whatever! :)


1) What lies within (almost) every cell in your body and determines (mostly) who you are? DNA

2) Proteins are important molecules in your body that perform specific functions, what are they made up of? Amino Acids

3) The heart is the first functional organ during development, how soon after conception does a human heart beat? 21 days

4) What do vaccines stimulate the production of (these help to fight off the infection of the disease)? Antibodies

5) A "cold" is what kind of infection? Bonus: What is the scientific name of most common form of cold? Colds are caused by viruses and the most common cold virus is called the rhinovirus

6) A genetic trait can be dominant, meaning shows up in the offspring if at least one parent has the trait, what is the term for the opposite of dominant (meaning you have to have two copies of the trait for the trait to be seen)? Hint: starts with "R" recessive is what I was looking for. Rare genetic disorders are usually recessive meaning the mom and dad both pass on a variant (mutaion) that causes the disease.


7) How many chromosomes do humans have? Bonus: What combination makes a female and what combo makes a male? Humans have 46 chromosomes 23 pairs. 22 pairs are autosomes and 1 pair is the sex chromosomes if you are a female you have XX chromosome pair and males have XY chromosome pair. And gender is ALWAYS determined by the father... they pass either X or Y to the child determining the gender (it is sad there are cultures out there still that will kill a woman cause she did not provide the man with a son!).

8) These structures attach muscle to bone? tendons

9) The largest artery in the body is the? aorta

10) What is the positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom called? proton