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 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | evil women enjoyers | 31 | -5 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 31 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | 31 | 15 |
| 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 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Chicago B | 58 | 15 |
| Jacob Egol | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 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 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | George Washington | 68 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 68 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Kunaal Chandrashekar | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 72 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 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 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh | Sheffield A | 100 | -5 |
| Matthew Bucek | George Mason A | CWRU | 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 |
| Akshath Sivachidhambaram | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 110 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSB | 110 | 10 |
| Enoch Boateng | Manchester | Birmingham | 111 | 10 |
| Andrew Fisher | Sheffield B | Cambridge | 111 | 10 |
| Theodor Martin | WashU Charmander | SIUE | 111 | 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 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Guelph | 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 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto E | 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 |
| Jonathan Shauf | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 117 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 118 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | UW B | 118 | 10 |
| Jack van Nostrand | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 118 | 0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |