Biology is studying everything about life and its participants. What do you know about life and its participants? From cells, photosynthesis, ecology, botany, evolution, genetics, DNA to viruses and bacteria, biology is undoubtedly one of the most interesting subjects.
Thanks to biology, we understand how food moves from the mouth all the way to the small intestines, how many bones an adult human has, how important carbon dioxide is for that beautiful green plant on your balcony, and many other things.
Biology Trivia Questions and Answers
How much do you know as far as this field of science is concerned? Well, knowing that the heart beats 72 times per minute, and it has four ventricles is not enough. There’s so much to learn and our trivia questions will definitely help you, whether you want to remind yourself what you learned in school or you have an upcoming biology test, and you really want to ace it.
These trivia questions will come in handy as you spend quality time with your family and friends during the weekends. High school students will benefit so much from them and the next time they have a quiz in class, they’ll definitely show off with nothing but the correct answers only.
Where’s your lab coat? Let’s get into action already and see what your score would be!
1. What is the most common element in the human body?
2. What is another name for the voice box?
3. Hansen’s disease is more commonly known by which name?
4. What is the scientific term for the production of light by living organisms?
5. About how long is the human small intestine?
6. Botany is the study of what life form?
7. Unlike most other fish, sharks have no?
8. What is the process of breaking down food called?
9. What is the human body’s largest organ?
10. What human organ cleans fifty gallons of blood every day?
11. Where would you find the Nazca Lines?
12. True or false: snails have teeth
13. How many gallons of water can a baobab tree store in its trunk?
14. What is a “jonquil”?
15. What part of the human body is the Mandible?
16. What illness accounted for 40 percent of U. S. military casualties during World War I?
17. What is the expected time an organism will live called?
18. How many bones does an adult human have?
19. Which organ do insects NOT have?
20. What are the tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins?
21. True or false: jellyfish have hearts
22. What living animal has the heaviest brain?
23. What are chitterlings?
24. Which French microbiologist discovered the process of pasteurization?
25. What is the scientific term for an apparent “throwback” characteristic of an organism that reveals a trait of an earlier ancestor?
26. What part of the plant gets water and nutrients to the rest of the plant?
27. What year was the first animal cloned?
28. What is the waxy covering on plant leaves?
29. Who discovered penicillin?
30. Which of the following has more bones? Adult, Baby, Teenager
31. Which is the sheet-like muscle at the bottom of a human chest?
32. When was the Human Genome project completed?
33. What was the first genetically engineered organism?
34. What do poachers seek when they kill elephants for their tusks?
35. How many species are estimated to live on Earth?
36. How many functions does the human liver have?
37. What takes up 50-70 percent of a whale’s weight?
38. A DNA molecule is described as being in what shape?
39. Which of the following has the longest recorded life span?
40. The first vaccine targeted which disease?
41. Heterochromia results in which change in physical appearance?
42. What is the only human body part that can’t repair itself?
43. What science word means “to group”?
44. Crohn’s disease is part of which disease group?
45. Which fruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and mandarin?
46. What body system is the human heart part of?
47. How many neck vertebrae do giraffes have, compared to a human’s seven?
48. What type of organism makes up the oldest known fossil?
49. What vitamin does the sun’s ultraviolet rays help the skin produce?
50. Which food substance helps move waste through the body?
51. What does the Scoville Heat Unit Scale measure?
52. What makes up about 70 percent of most living things?
53. The term ‘renal’ refers to which organs?
54. Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?
55. What is the largest crocodilian in the world?
56. What is the name of the biggest part of the human brain?
57. What is the collective name of animals and plants that live on a lake bottom?
58. Fish take in oxygen through their gills; what do insects take in oxygen through?
59. Can cell walls be found in plant cells, animal cells or both?
60. What is the hardest substance in the human body?
61. What is the correct plural of Keeshond?
62. What is the phobia of eyes called?
63. What is the largest living structure on Earth?
64. What is the biggest artery in the human body?
65. What gives blood its red color?
66. In terms of attributed human deaths which are more dangerous; snakes, bees, sharks or house flies?
67. What fluid-filled sac surrounds the human embryo?
68. Which is the hardest bone in the human body?
69. What is the oldest living thing known on Earth?
70. Which is a tiny structure located in the cytoplasm of a cell?
71. How many gallons of blood are in the human body?
72. Where are the three smallest bones in the human body? What are they called?
73. What happens to your skin’s blood vessels as you exercise?
74. Which organ in the body can process pain but cannot feel it?
75. What is the world’s tallest grass?
76. What powdery substance contains the male sex cells of a flower?
77. How many bones are we born with, and how many does it reduce to?
78. Which Australian timber made the London docks?
79. What are the members of a single type of living organism in an ecosystem called?
80. Nucleus + Cytoplasm = ?
81. What is the longest type of cell in the body?
82. What snail-shaped organ in the ear funnels sounds to the auditory nerve?
83. What is the lipid membrane model of the cell membrane called?
84. What is a xylem?
85. What kingdom would a human be in?
86. What part of the cell’s covering do plant cells have that animal cells don’t?
87. What is pyrogen?
88. What is a full set of bones called?
89. Which protein helps in the degradation of aged and damaged cells by targeting them to be destroyed?
90. What is the scientific name of a Sydney Blue Gum?
91. From what tree did aspirin originally derive?
92. How many different cells are there in our body?
93. Which is the only Australian mammal restricted to alpine environments?
94. What was the largest living creature of the twentieth century?
95. Which branch of science helps us take a closer look at cells?
96. What is the name given for the black & white disc used in determining water turbidity?
97. What organ filters blood and helps regulate salt and water levels?
98. Which cells make new bones?
99. Why does eyesight change as you get older?
100. What process produces a duplicate of the original cell?
101. What are the important biomolecules?
102. Do you have the same number of neck vertebrae as a giraffe?
103. What is the cell where a virus reproduces called?
104. Are all proteins enzymes?
105. What is the smallest living mammal?
106. What is the Japanese word for “dog”?
107. Which is the division of chemical biology that studies sugar molecules?
108. Which two mammals lay eggs?
109. By what process do plants use chlorophyll to make glucose, a food sugar?
110. What is the enzyme that facilitates the transfer of a phosphate group to a protein substrate?
111. How many known species of fish live in the ocean?
112. What forms the outer boundary of a cell and controls material moving in and out of the cell?
113. What is the name of the protein that was taken from a jellyfish, which helps visualize proteins under a microscope?
114. What is the largest known insect?
115. What is the outer skeleton of organisms such as spiders and insects called?
116. What type of octopus is capable of imitating jellyfish, sea snakes, and flounders?
117. Which mammal can fly?
118. What is the tube that carries food into the stomach called?
119. What are the two pom-poms of boxer crabs?
120. What is the top speed of a cheetah?
121. Which cell part is responsible for controlling most of the activity inside a cell?
122. What is the name of a water-dwelling animal that looks like it’s wearing lipstick?
123. What do you call a cross between a tiger and a lion?
124. What is the leading male or female called in a pack of wolves?
125. Which fish was awarded the title of the world’s ugliest animal?
126. When was the structure of DNA discovered?
127. What does ER (of a cell) stand for?
128. Who is the Father of modern marine biology?
129. What is studied in forensic palynology?
130. What is the only canine that can climb trees?
131. Are all invertebrates cold-blooded?
132. What is studied in forensic entomology?
133. How many bones are in each finger, except the thumb, of a human hand?
134. What is the branch of science that studies plants called?
135. The name rhinoceros comes from two ancient Greek words meaning what?
136. What are the gaps between nerve cells called?
137. Which part of the plant cell is used for storage?
138. Sometimes two different living things live together and have very close relationships. What do scientists call this?
139. What is the outside covering of a plant’s root called?
140. Which component of a plant cell helps in photosynthesis?
141. True or False: The “fresh” smell after it’s been raining comes from trees breathing
142. What substance in your ears helps keep germs and dirt out?
143. What type of organism is a plant, in terms of cells?
144. Most of the Earth’s oxygen is made by one kind of living thing. Which kind of living thing is it?
145. What is the sticky part of the pistil called?
146. What is the scientific name of one of the rarest plants in the world, which is also known as the corpse plant? Where can it be found?
147. Some dinosaurs survived the extinction event 65 million years ago, and persist on Earth to this day. What do we call them?
148. Where in the human body are the anvil and stirrups located?
149. Why is the Dragon’s Blood Tree, which is found on an island in Yemen, called so?
150. Which is the world’s largest living thing? An animal, fungus, plant, or bacteria?
151. What is the fin on the backs of fish, some whales and dolphins called?
152. Which plant is known as Monkey Cups and is a carnivore?
153. The scientific study of animals is called?
154. Where does the zygote of a gymnosperm develop?
155. What is the hair-like structure that occurs on plants, which are similar to the one seen on mammals?
156. True or false: We find more shark-tooth fossils than shark-bone fossils.
157. What is the nerve that helps transmit sound signals to your brain?
158. What plant is considered to be a living fossil and is said to survive for 1000 to 2000 years with just around three inches of rain a year?
159. True or false: Cabbage, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, kale, and cauliflower were all bred from the same wild plant.
160. What is the name for a virus that infects a bacteria?
161. What is the name of the purple-colored flower that loves the shade and is scientifically called Torenia?
162. From how far away can a blue whale hear sounds?
163. What “trapdoor” on your windpipe helps keep out food particles?
164. What are flowering plants called?
165. The brain is divided into how many lobes?
166. What flower name is similar to the processor we use in our electronic gadgets?
167. What is a cell that provides energy for another organism called?
168. When we cut onions, we start tearing up. Which chemical compound is the culprit behind this?
169. How many joints does an ant have in each leg?
170. Which plant bulbs were valued more than gold in the 1600s?
171. What openings in a leaf allow gas exchange?
172. Which scientist is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, which is the foundation of modern evolutionary science?
173. What is the substance that cell walls in green plants are made of?
174. To which process of programmed cell death, often recognized by blebbing and DNA fragmentation, does the average human lose around 50 billion cells a day?
175. Which of the following words refers to a baby shark?
176. A person who specializes in the study of plants is called what?
177. Which scientist was the first person to see bacteria?
178. Which of the following terms refers to a DNA change that leads to a new characteristic?
179. What type of muscle bends a joint in the body?
180. What is the tubelike elongated mouthpart of a butterfly called?
181. The Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe which microorganism?
182. What nerve tissue transmits light signals from your eye lens to the brain?
183. Ants have a hard outer shell on their bodies which acts as an exoskeleton and enables them to do what that seems remarkable to humans?
184. Photosynthesis mostly occurs in which part of plants?
185. Which doctor or team of doctors is credited with pioneering the scientific study of human sexuality?
186. What type of skeleton do humans and most vertebrates have?
187. Mycology is the branch of biology that studies what?
188. What do conifers use to hold seeds?
189. Born in Sweden, he is known as the “father of taxonomy”. Who is he?
190. Which of the following terms refers to animals that eat both animals and plants?
191. What do we call the teeth we grind our food with?
192. Which pair of compounds can be classified as inorganic?
193. What is a deciduous plant?
194. What caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s?
195. What can children with the rare genetic disease phenylketonuria not eat?
196. Which of the following big cats is the fastest animal on land?
197. What connects flower buds to the stem?
198. Which organism does not require oxygen for growth?
199. We can find wild bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas on which continent?
200. What is made by white blood cells to help fight off infection?
201. What is the substance cells use as an immediate source of energy for themselves?
202. Unlike most species of fish, which body part does not exist in sharks?
203. What does the substance melanin control?
204. What is the leaf of a fern called?
205. What is the name of the pigment-containing organelles in autotrophs that collect light energy?
206. What is the smallest unit that can carry out life functions?
207. What is the name of the largest shark?
208. How do enzymes catalyze reactions?
209. Which of the following vitamins is needed for the process of blood clotting?
210. What is the largest known spider in the world?
211. All carbohydrates contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. All proteins contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and what other element?
212. The most severe competition for space, light, and food occurs in?
213. What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
214. What is the life process used by cells to produce energy (in the form of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP) for cellular activities called?
215. What is an ecosystem comprised of?
216. How many stages are in a butterfly’s life cycle?
217. What is the scientific name for the forepaw of a cat?
218. Which four letters in the English alphabet are used to denote the genetic code?
219. What light-sensitive cells in the eye detect colors?
220. ATP stands for what?
221. What is the basic unit of classification in biology?
222. What kind of plant stem is soft and green?
223. The second type of programmed cell death literally translates as ‘self-devouring. What is this process, the discovery of the mechanism of which won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2016?
224. What is the organic compound that provides energy in living cells?
225. What part of the brain is responsible for vision?
226. What is the name of the much-beloved fruit fly?
227. Which of the following animals belongs to the cetacean family, which also includes dolphins?
228. What do you count on a tree to tell how old it is?
229. All vertebrates have hearts that are located in the front part of their body, and are always surrounded by a protective sac with what name?
230. The human brain can generate enough electricity to?
231. What part of the brain controls hunger?
232. Amoebas engulf their food by sticking out finger-like projections called pseudopodia. What is this process called?
233. Benthos is the collective name of plants and animals that live on the bottom of?
234. With what process do living creatures make more of themselves?
235. In a human, what area of the body is sphenoid bone closest to?
236. What is considered to be the largest living structure existing on Earth?
237. What is on your tongue that allows you to taste the differences in different foods?
238. Neurones carry nerve impulses around the human body. What are the gaps between these neurones called?
239. Which ancient philosopher was the first one to propose the biological classification of animals and plants?
240. Trisomy-21 is popularly known as what?
241. What’s the cure for Down syndrome?
242. Most of the enzymes in the body are made of what?
243. What is an urolith?
244. Which are the four most abundant elements in living cells?
245. Why can bats fly in dark?
246. What is the basic unit of function and structure in living organisms?
247. In what country was the horse first domesticated?
248. What is the definition of pollination?
249. What is an algal bloom that occurs in saltwater called?
250. What is the name of the inner membrane of an organism that contains a developing fetus and its protective fluid?
251. From where do plants get most of their nutrients?
252. What does an ornithologist study?
253. There are many chemical reactions that occur in the body. What broad term is used to include them all?
254. Which animal is considered the most highly intelligent mammal?
255. Which nutrient group is used to help grow and repair cells?
256. What disorder is caused by having three copies of chromosome 21?
257. In addition to malaria, Anopheles mosquitoes also spread which of the following diseases?
258. What grows from an acorn?
259. Charles Darwin, famous for his description of natural selection as a guiding mechanism of evolution, was also an expert on what organisms?
260. During the process of photosynthesis, oxygen is released from what?
261. What does the zygote form once it starts mitosis?
262. The conversion of unsaturated fats into saturated fats by the addition of hydrogen is a by-product of which process?
263. Robert Gallo was one of the pioneers n the identification of which virus?
264. What natural biological defense system protects the body from disease and fights off germs?
265. Why does water provide a relatively stable external environment for aquatic organisms?
266. What is the world’s largest invertebrate?
267. How many bones are in a giraffe’s neck?
268. A concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood stimulates the breathing center in which part of the body?
269. What three-letter word is the name given to the mating season of deers?
270. What layer of the skin is just below the surface?
271. What is an oily or waxy organic compound called?
272. What P-word describes an animal’s tail with the ability to grip?
273. What is the name of the sugary substance that many insects get from flowers?
274. How many bones does a hand contain?
275. What G-word is the name of the organ in a bird’s body that grinds the food?
276. What are the small bones that make up a backbone called?
277. Who was the first person to realize that plants absorb oxygen at night and carbon dioxide during the day?
278. Which name is given to the heart chamber which receives blood?
279. What is a young bear called?
280. Name the five processes involved in holozoic nutrition in the correct order of execution.
281. Which glands produce white blood cells?
282. What are plants that grow, reproduce and die all in one season called?
283. Plants may respond to changes in the environment. These responses are referred to as tropism. If a plant bends towards the light, which type of tropism is the plant demonstrating?
284. What’s the medical term for low blood sugar?
285. Where in the body is blood produced?
286. What is a group of cells that work together and form an organ called?
287. Which structure in mollusks contains internal organs below the mantle?
288. What is the most common cancer in the world, that kills almost 1.5 million deaths a year?
289. What part of the flower surrounds the inside parts of the flower?
290. What keeps a duck dry even though it spends almost all its time in the water?
291. What is the world’s largest herb?
292. What is the outermost covering of trees and some plants called?
293. What is the ring of bones at the hip called?
294. What arctic sea whale has one long horn on its head?
295. Which groups of words mean the same thing?
296. The limbs of a corpse become stiff (Latin rigor) and difficult to move or manipulate is a sign of what?
297. What do many types of birds, such as geese, do just before it begins to get colder?
298. ‘Iodized’ salts contain the iodine salts of which metal?
299. Envoid was the first what in the USA?
300. What is a hominid?