Question
Whole genome sequencing in members of this taxonomic group has revealed the presence of DNA segments called NUMTs (“new-mights”). Thomas Cavalier-Smith classified this taxonomic group as unikonts or bikonts based on their number of flagella. The inheritance of ESCRT (“escort”) protein complexes by this taxonomic group is cited as evidence for James A. Lake’s “eocyte hypothesis.” Exemplified by the TSAR (“T-sar”) clade, members of this taxonomic group have independently evolved a process called kleptoplasty. In a 1967 paper that also explained the 9-plus-2 arrangement of flagella, Lynn Margulis proposed a theory that this taxonomic group may have evolved after engulfing proteobacteria via endosymbiosis. For 10 points, name this domain of organisms whose cells have membrane-bound organelles and a nucleus. ■END■
ANSWER: Eukaryota [or eukaryotes; prompt on Plantae or plants or Animalia or animals or Fungi or Protista or protists by asking “can you be less specific?”]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 104.67 |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 106.83 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 110.17 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 108.17 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 106.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 107.40 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 105.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.67 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 80% | 0% | 30% | 105.63 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 105.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 104.33 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Purdue | 63 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | Duke | 70 | -5 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | BU | 70 | -5 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | LSE | 70 | -5 |
| Emilie Moore | RIT B | Cornell D | 73 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Indiana B | 76 | -5 |
| Joel Crossley | Manchester | Cambridge E | 82 | -5 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 84 | -5 |
| Calvin Bostleman | Ohio State A | Kenyon | 91 | -5 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Cornell B | 94 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Liberty B | 95 | 10 |
| Jayden Ku | Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western A | 96 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago B | 96 | 10 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 96 | 10 |
| Ian Lu | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 96 | 10 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Imperial B | 96 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF C | 97 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan C | Michigan State | 97 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago A | 97 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Iowa | 97 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Notre Dame A | 97 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | Texas B | 97 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | John Jay College | 97 | 10 |
| Eli Bettinger | ESF A | Cornell C | 97 | 10 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | ASU | 98 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont B | 99 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCSD | 99 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | UCF B | 99 | 10 |
| Stevie Miller | Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan D | 99 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Missoui S&T | 99 | -5 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Chicago D | 99 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Harvard B | 99 | 10 |
| Andrew Messersmith | Brandeis B | Dartmouth A | 99 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame B | 99 | 10 |
| Brina Ratangee | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 99 | 10 |
| Rahim Dina | Imperial A | Southampton B | 99 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Oxford B | 99 | -5 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Sheffield | 99 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Case Western B | 101 | 10 |
| Frederick Rivas-Giorgi | Yale A | NYU A | 102 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Durham | 103 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | NYU C | 104 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT A | Binghamton A | 104 | 10 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Georgetown A | 105 | -5 |
| Juan Landaeta | Florida State A | Valencia A | 107 | 10 |
| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin B | Iowa State | 107 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Harvard A | 107 | 10 |
| Michael Zhou | Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 107 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Missouri | 109 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina | UNC D | 111 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Carnegie Mellon B | 112 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | Liberty C | 112 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC C | Wake Forest | 112 | 10 |
| Lewis Strachan | Cambridge E | Manchester | 112 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | RIT B | 112 | 10 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke | UNC B | 115 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Illinois C | 115 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UC Berkeley B | 116 | 10 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Ohio State A | 116 | 10 |
| Mitchell Indek | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 116 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | Liberty A | 116 | 10 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | WashU B | 116 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago D | Chicago C | 116 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin A | Minnesota B | 116 | 0 |
| Foster Hughes | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 116 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | UMass Boston | 116 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | BU | MIT A | 116 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Georgetown B | 116 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue | Stanford B | 116 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Cambridge D | 116 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Oxford C | 116 | 10 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | Warwick A | 116 | 0 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Bristol | 116 | 0 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | George Washington B | 116 | 0 |
| Derek Chen | Columbia C | Maryland B | 116 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Penn A | 116 | 10 |
| Peter Lutz | George Washington B | George Washington A | 116 | 0 |