After cells take up one form of this molecule, it becomes accessible for antibody labeling after its target is hydrolyzed with HCl (“h-c-l”) and borax. That form of this molecule is often co-stained with Ki67 (“k-i-67”). This non-methylated molecule is the larger product of a reaction catalyzed by APOBECs, which underpins the first step of bisulfite sequencing. Ethynyl- and bromo·de·oxy derivatives of this molecule are used to detect cell proliferation. The letter (*) psi denotes a form of this molecule that may help strengthen binding to the 30S subunit in one structure’s stem-loops. This molecule is generated by de·aminating cytosine, and methylating this molecule’s 5’ (“five-prime”) carbon yields its more mutation-resistant analog that similarly forms two hydrogen bonds with adenine. For 10 points, what base replaces thymine in RNA? ■END■
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 115.33 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.50 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 110.20 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 50% | 121.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 122.50 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 124.83 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 120.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 122.40 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 124.50 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 122.67 |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.00 |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 100% | 20% | 40% | 101.40 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Hong | Madmen and Specialists | Old and Young | 40 | -5 |
| Moses Kitakule | In the Mood for Buzz | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 48 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | Chicago A | 50 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 57 | 15 |
| Jonathan Haimowitz | ALCU | Anderson et al. | 67 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois Blue | Illinois Orange | 70 | 10 |
| Travis Tu | Jason et al. | SGV Ventures | 70 | -5 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale | Amherst | 85 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Milton | Johns Creek | 89 | -5 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 91 | -5 |
| Graham Cope | UF B | UF A | 95 | -5 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont | U[C]SD | 96 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU | Squidward Community College | 98 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto B | 99 | 10 |
| Shourjo Ganguli | bingy academy | Social credit go vroom | 100 | 10 |
| Max Chen | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | The cult of SGA | 100 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Waterloo Cloze | 100 | 10 |
| Shaun Iyer | Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech B | 100 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Purdue B | 100 | -5 |
| Adhrit Yadav | Lambert | Georgia Tech D | 106 | -5 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Warwick C | 106 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | North Carolina B | South Carolina | 107 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto A | McGill A | 108 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UF C | 115 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 115 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo Basic | Toronto Metropolitan A | 117 | -5 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 118 | -5 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Truman | 118 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Stanford | 118 | -5 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge B | LSE B | 118 | 10 |
| Owen Iredale | Imperial A | Cambridge A | 120 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pitt | Penn State | 121 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Maryland | 121 | -5 |
| Soren Heydari | North Carolina A | Virginia Tech A | 122 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech C | Virginia Tech B | 122 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Carleton A | 122 | 10 |
| Joey Sun | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | 122 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame | SIUE | 122 | 10 |
| Richard Lin | Amherst | Yale | 124 | 10 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina | North Carolina B | 124 | 10 |
| Michal Gerasimiuk | Stanford | Berkeley A | 124 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | LSE A | 124 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin C | Clark House | 125 | 10 |
| Kai McFarland | BU | Tufts B | 125 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Harvard | 125 | 10 |
| Graham Lucas | Bowdoin A | Clark Wilson | 125 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | Boston College B | Tufts A | 125 | 10 |
| Coby Tran | Paddington in Peru (2024) | In the Mood for Buzz | 125 | 10 |
| Mike Cheyne | Old and Young | Madmen and Specialists | 125 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland | RIT | 125 | 0 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia | Florida Tech | 125 | 0 |
| Addison Wiggins | USF | UCF B | 125 | 10 |
| Valerie Unzueta | Florida Tech | Valencia | 125 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | UF A | UF B | 125 | 10 |
| Hansen Jin | Berkeley B | Berkeley Past | 125 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan A | Waterloo Basic | 125 | 0 |
| Pranav Jothi | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech A | 125 | 10 |
| Joanna Xiao | Georgia Tech D | Lambert | 125 | 10 |
| Edward Kim | Johns Creek | Milton | 125 | 10 |
| Pratyusha Soni | Innovation Academy B | Mississippi State | 125 | 10 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississippi State | Innovation Academy B | 125 | 0 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago A | Chicago B | 125 | 10 |
| Owyn Noble | Purdue B | Purdue A | 125 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Imperial B | 125 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick C | Warwick B | 125 | 10 |
| Ian Tullis | Anderson et al. | ALCU | 125 | 10 |
| Will Alston | SGV Ventures | Jason et al. | 125 | 10 |