CONTEST7

ROUND 1

1. Name the part of the flower that develops into seeds.

ANSWER: Ovules

2. Name the part of the flower that develops into the fruit.

ANSWER: Ovary

3. What name is given to the shoot of the embryo?

ANSWER: Plumule

4. Name the law that relates action and reaction forces.

ANSWER: Newton’s third law

5. Name the law that gives the force between stationary point charges.

ANSWER: Coulomb’s law

6. Name the law that gives the relationship between angle of incidence and angle of refraction
for light incident at the boundary between two media.

ANSWER: Snell’s law

7. Which cation or cations in solution will give chalky precipitate with dilute NaOH
solution?

ANSWER: Ca2+ and Pb2+

8. Which cation or cations in solution will give white gelatinous precipitate with dilute
NaOH , the precipitate dissolving in excess of the NaOH solution?

ANSWER: Zn2+ and Al3+

9. Which cation or cations in solution will give white precipitate when H2S is bubbled
through the solution?

ANSWER: Zn2+

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 10. What is the union of two sets A and B?

ANSWER: This is the set of elements belonging to either A or B

11. What is the intersection of two sets A and B?

ANSWER: This is the set of elements belonging to both A and B.

12. What is the null set?

ANSWER: This is the set having no members.

13. Which phylum of fungi is considered the largest of the fungal phyla?

ANSWER: Ascomycota

14. Name the member of the imperfect fungi that is a source of a well-known antibiotic.

ANSWER: Penicillium

15. Which group of algae has chloroplast identical to those found in plants?

ANSWER: Green algae

State the physical quantity associated with the unit given:

16. The weber

ANSWER: Magnetic flux

17. The tor

ANSWER: Pressure

18. The light-year.

ANSWER: Distance

19. The electrolysis of dilute H2SO4 using inert electrodes is equivalent to hydrolysis of
water. Why is this so?

ANSWER: At the cathode H+ is discharged; at the anode OH- is easier to

discharge than SO4-. Hence H+ and OH-, ions of water are
discharged from the solution

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 20. In the electrolysis of copper II tetraoxosulphate IV using inert electrodes, what
products are formed at the electrodes?

ANSWER: At the anode O2 is discharged/formed, at the cathode Cu metal is

deposited.

21. In the electrolysis of copper II tetraoxosulphate IV using copper electrodes, what

products are formed at the electrodes?

ANSWER: At the anode Cu2+ are formed or the copper electrode dissolves.
At the cathode Cu metal is deposited.

22. Find the number of subsets of the set A ={1, 2, 3, 4}

ANSWER: 16 [2 n where n is number of elements of the set, hence 24 = 16]

23. What set has only one subset?

ANSWER: The empty set or the null set

24. Find the set of prime factors of the number 30

ANSWER: {2, 3, 5}

25. How many phosphate groups form the phosphate component of ATP?

ANSWER: 3

26. Each molecule of ATP is composed of how many parts?

ANSWER: 3

27. Which of the four nucleotides of DNA is a component of ATP?

ANSWER: Adenine

28. How much energy is needed to just melt of ice at if the specific latent heat of
fusion of ice is ?

ANSWER:

29. The heat capacity of an objectis . How much energy is needed to increase the
temperature of the objectby ?

ANSWER:

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 30. What is the heat capacity of an object whose temperature increases by when it absorbs
of heat?

ANSWER:

31. Identify a Main Group of elements in the Periodic Table that shows +3 oxidation state in its
salts or compounds.

ANSWER: Group III, B, Al, Ga, etc

32. Identify a Main Group of elements in the Periodic Table that shows -2 oxidation state in its
anions or compounds.

ANSWER: Group 16 (old Group 6) O, S, Se, etc

33. In the Periodic Table hydrogen is placed in both Group 1 and Group 17 (old Group7). Why?

ANSWER: Can be in Group 1 because it has a valence shell of s1. Can also be Group
17 because it needs only one electron to complete its valence shell.

Find the general term of the sequence

34. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, . . .

ANSWER: 3n
[a linear sequence with a = 3, d = 3 Un = a + (n- 1)d = 3 + (n – 1)3 =3n]

35. 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, . . .

ANSWER: 3(2n – 1) [ a geometric or exponential sequence with a = 3, and r = 2]

36. 5, 2, -1, -4, -7, . . .

ANSWER: 8 – 3n
[a linear sequence with a = 5, d = -3, Un = a + (n – 1)d = 5 + ( n – 1)(-3)= 8 -3n]

Preamble:
One gene has two alleles A and a, another has alleles B and b. For each
of the following genotypes, state the gametes that will be produced.
(Assume independent assortment)
37. AaBB

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 ANSWER: AB and aB

38. Aabb

ANSWER: Ab and ab

39. AABb

ANSWER: AB and Ab

40. What is the buoyant force on an object of volume and density in a fluid
of density where acceleration due to gravity is ?

ANSWER: Buoyant force equals weight of fluid displaced, which is

.

41. What is the density of an object of volume whose apparent weight is in a fluid
of density ? Acceleration due to gravity is .

ANSWER: Apparent weight is so density is

.

42. What is the work done in carrying of water up a flight of steps? The
acceleration due to gravity is and the density of water is .

ANSWER:

43. How many litres of water should be added to 5 litres of 50% HCl solution to dilute it
35%?

ANSWER: Let the volme to be added be x litres.

(5 x 0.5) = (5 + x)0.35

Hence x = 2.14 litres

44. How many litres of water should be added to 10 litres of 25% NaOH solution to
dilute it to 15%?

ANSWER: Let the volume to be added be x litres.

(10 x 0.25) = (10 + x)0.15

Hence x = 6.67 litres

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45. What is the new per cent concentration if 10 litres of water are added to 8 litres of
35% HCl?

ANSWER: Let the new %concentration be M.

(8 x 0.35) = (10 + 8)M

Hence M = 15.6%

Convert the binary number to a decimal

46. 11001two

ANSWER: 25ten [16 + 8 + 1 = 25]

47. 111001two

ANSWER: 57 [32 + 16 + 8 + 1 = 57]

48. 100111two

ANSWER: 39 [ 32 + 4 + 2 + 1= 39]

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 PROBLEM OF THE DAY

Describe fully the structure of the DNA molecule.

SOLUTION
a. A molecule of DNA has a double helix shape
b. Each strand of the helix consists of a chain of nucleotides.
c. Each nucleotide is made up of a deoxyribose sugar, a phosphate group,
and a nitrogenous base (AGCT).
d. The two stands are held together by hydrogen bonds between nitrogenous
base of nucleotides on opposite strands
e. The nitrogenous bases form hydrogen bonds with each other in pairs.
f. Adenine forms hydrogen bond with Thymine, while Cytosine forms
hydrogen bond with Guanine.

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ROUND 3 – True or False

1. If A is an acute angle then sinA < cosA

ANSWER: FALSE
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2. sin 30 =
2
ANSWER: FALSE
3. If A is an acute angle, then sin A < tan A

ANSWER: TRUE
4. Every relation is a mapping

ANSWER: FALSE
5. Only some mappings are relations

ANSWER: FALSE
6. The set of natural numbers is a subset of the set of whole numbers

ANSWER: TRUE

7. Ozone is an isotope of oxygen

ANSWER: False It is an allotrope.

8. SO3 is a binary compound

ANSWER: True It contains two elements.

9. Starch and cellulose are polymers which have glucose as their monomers.

ANSWER: True though starch is made up of α- and cellulose β-glucose

units

10. MgO is a good conductor of electricity whereas SiO2 is not.

ANSWER: True MgO is ionic whereas SiO2 is covalent

11. Table salt added to water depresses its freezing point.

ANSWER: True

12. Salty water has a lower boiling point than pure water

ANSWER: False Dissolved solutes raise boiling points of solvents.

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13. Sound waves are transverse waves.
ANSWER: False
14. Sound waves can be made to interfere.
ANSWER: True
15. Sound waves propagate in vacuum.
ANSWER: False
16. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is between the sun and the earth and all three are in a
straight line.
ANSWER: True
17. When a shadow is cast, the umbra is lighter than the penumbra.
ANSWER: False
18. Total internal reflection cannot occur for light incident from one medium into a denser
medium.
ANSWER: True
19. The vertebral column belongs to the appendicular skeleton
ANSWER: False (axial)
20. Bone is a type of connective tissue
ANSWER: True
21. Osteoblasts of bones secrete collagen
ANSWER: True
22. Meiosis is a division that produces two nuclei
ANSWER: False
23. An animal cell having two rather than one of each type of chromosome has a haploid
number of chromosome
ANSWER: False (diploid)
24. Meiosis reduces the parental chromosome number
ANSWER: True

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ROUND 4 – Riddles
Riddle #1
1. I am a two digit number.
2. I have three prime factors which are successive prime numbers.
3. Half of me is the product of two of the prime factors.
4. The sum of my digits is three and the difference of my digits is also three.
5. I am a multiple of ten.

WHO AM I?
ANSWER: 30

Riddle #2
1. I am a law.
2. I describe the behavior of gases.
3. I can tell you the volume of a fixed quantity of gas.
4. I am named for a French physicist whose last name is a common first name.
5. I state that the volume of a fixed quantity of gas at constant pressure is proportional to
temperature.
WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Charles’s law

Riddle #3

1. I am a type of organelle
2. I am normally located just outside the nucleus
3. I am found in most eukaryotic cells, but absent in higher plants and fungi
4. I am shaped like a cylinder, and normally occur in a pair
5. I am involved in the organization of the mitotic spindle and in the completion of
cytokinesis
6. The first four letters of name means hundred

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 WHO AM I?
ANSWER: Centriole

Riddle #4
1. I am a hydrocarbon

2. A look at my molecular formula would suggest I do not have my full complement

of hydrogens.

3. I am therefore chemically unsaturated

4. All my carbons are in a ring

5. One mole of me can and will react with two moles of bromine usually dissolved
in chloroform.

6. If I have 8 carbons then what is my molecular formula?

WHO AM I?

ANSWER: C8H12 (With the full complement of H C8H18 but Ring + 2 double
bonds = -6H)

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