Regulation of these structures is the primary function of RNA complexes formed from piwi-interacting RNA. A group of these structures that uses a mechanism similar to rolling circle replication are called helitrons. An unusually high amount of these structures are found in Trichomonas vaginalis, which also has the Mariner type of these structures. LINEs and SINEs are two classes of these structures, the latter of which includes the widespread (*) Alu element. Knockout rats are often produced with the Sleeping Beauty system of these structures. The Ac/Ds system in corn uses class 2 examples of these structures, which use a “cut-and-paste” mechanism. For 10 points, name these genetic sequences discovered by Barbara McClintock, which can move around a genome. ■END■
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.75 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 89% | 33% | 44% | 82.75 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 81.33 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | Y | 8 | 63% | 13% | 25% | 81.60 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 0% | 84.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 6 | 83% | 17% | 33% | 106.20 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 25% | 25% | 102.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 114.40 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 67.50 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 63.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 40% | 111.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 113.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theenash Sengupta | MSJ | mongeese | 23 | 15 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 31 | 15 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | evil women enjoyers | 31 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 31 | -5 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Simon Fraser | 33 | 15 |
| Stan | Gruh | Mahjonng Masters | 34 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 43 | -5 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 52 | -5 |
| Arthur Gayden | Chicago A | Illinois A | 56 | 15 |
| Jacob Egol | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 58 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Chicago B | 58 | 15 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Carleton | 61 | 15 |
| Daniel Sheinberg | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | Free Agents 1 | 61 | 15 |
| Graham Cope | Too much from you lately | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 63 | 15 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Billy's Bastion | 64 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 68 | -5 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | George Washington | 68 | 15 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 69 | 10 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | Auburn 2026 | 70 | -5 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 71 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 72 | 10 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 72 | 10 |
| Liam Kusalik | Waterloo A | McGill A | 75 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Iowa State | 83 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 83 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | evil women enjoyers | Egypt Airlines Haters | 97 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 99 | 10 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | CWRU | 100 | -5 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Sheffield A | 100 | -5 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | RIT | 103 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Oberlin | 106 | -5 |
| Hunter Davis | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 107 | -5 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill B | Mac A | 107 | -5 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | UW A | 108 | -5 |
| Ivan Karp | UCLA A | Claremont A | 109 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 110 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSB | 110 | 10 |
| Akshath Sivachidhambaram | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 110 | 10 |
| Scarlett Rutter | Claremont B | UCSD | 111 | 10 |
| Edward Li | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University of America | 111 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 111 | 10 |
| Nathan Liang | Mahjonng Masters | Gruh | 111 | 10 |
| Enoch Boateng | Manchester | Birmingham | 111 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Cambridge | 111 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Guelph | 111 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Charmander | SIUE | 111 | 10 |
| Robert Crawley | Warwick A | LSE | 112 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | South Dakota School of Mines | 113 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Illinois C | 113 | 10 |
| Ben Spirtas | Maryland B | NYU A | 116 | 10 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 117 | 10 |
| Benjamin Yang | Caltech | UCLA B | 117 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | UCLA A | 117 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | Art of Premature Signaling | 117 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto E | 117 | 10 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 117 | 10 |
| Peter Ballas | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 118 | 0 |
| Pranet Sirikonda | Ohio State C | Michigan D | 118 | 0 |
| Elise Wettach | Oberlin | Ohio State D | 118 | 10 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Belmont | 118 | 10 |
| Chloe Chow | Harvard | BU | 118 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU | George Mason A | 118 | 10 |
| Daniel Carlton | George Mason B | Georgetown | 118 | 0 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 118 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 118 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | UW B | 118 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn 2026 | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 118 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Goober Gang | Quatumvirate | 118 | 0 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Warwick B | 118 | 10 |
| Yusuf Baig | Mac A | McGill B | 118 | 0 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa A | UBC | 118 | 0 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 118 | 0 |