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   Mark Brader  wrote:   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 7 - Literature - Science-Fiction Books   
      
   > 1. "The Road".   
      
   Cormac McCarthy   
      
   > 2. "Foundation".   
      
   Isaac Asimov   
      
   > 3. "Neuromancer".   
      
   William Gibson   
      
   > 4. "Cat's Cradle".   
      
   Kurt Vonnegut   
      
   > 5. "The Time Machine".   
      
   H. G. Wells   
      
   > 6. "A Clockwork Orange".   
      
   Anthony Burgess   
      
   > 7. "The Illustrated Man".   
      
   Ray Bradbury   
      
   > 8. "The Handmaid's Tale".   
      
   Margaret Atwood   
      
   > 9. "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".   
      
   Jules Verne   
      
   > 10. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".   
      
   Philip K. Dick   
      
   > * Game 4, Round 8 - Science - Genetics   
      
   > 1. On 1953-02-28, at Cambridge University's Cavendish Labs, James   
   >    Watson and Francis Crick made what discovery about the structure   
   >    of DNA?   
      
   it's a double helix   
      
   > 2. What plant did Gregor Mendel use for his heredity studies for   
   >    the paper he published in 1866?   
      
   pea   
      
   > 3. In the acronym DNA, what does the A stand for?   
      
   acid   
      
   > 4. How many chromosomes do humans normally have in each typical   
   >    cell?   
      
   46   
      
   > 5. Chromosomes are duplicated prior to cell division.  What is it   
   >    called if there is an error in that duplication?   
      
   mutation   
      
   > 6. If two green genes give you green, and two yellow genes give   
   >    you yellow, and one gene of each type also gives you yellow,   
   >    then what type of gene is the green gene?   
      
   recessive   
      
   > 7. They are scattered throughout the cell outside the nucleus and   
   >    produces the cell's energy.  They contain a small loop of DNA   
   >    and there are 500-1,000 of them in every human cell.  What are   
   >    they called?   
      
   mitochondria   
      
   > 8. In the 1950s, what group of viruses was found to be made up of   
   >    RNA rather the than usual DNA?   
      
   retroviruses   
      
   > 9. What is the name of the initiative to identify and map all of   
   >    the genes found in people?   
      
   Human Genome Project   
      
   > 10. What social genetic movement arose with the idea of improving   
   >    the human stock by promoting the breeding of gifted individuals   
   >    and preventing the less gifted from doing so?   
      
   eugenics   
      
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