Question
A species of these organisms that act as pests in one ecosystem are injected with bile salts using autonomous drones like RangerBot. A relaxin-like peptide hormone found in these organisms called “gonad-stimulating substance” makes them a useful model to study oocyte maturation. They aren’t deer, but two recent studies have disproved the theory that the densovirus SSaDV caused a mysterious “wasting disease” in these organisms. The Triton Snail is one of the few natural predators capable of containing outbreaks of a corallivorous type of these animals in the genus Acanthaster. Studying the purple Pisaster genus of these animals in rocky intertidal ecosystems led Robert Paine to coin the term “keystone species.” For 10 points, what echinoderms are named for having five arms? ■END■
Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 102.33 |
Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 110.17 |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 105.20 |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 112.50 |
South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 116.00 |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 112.67 |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 20% | 92.33 |
Buzzes
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Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Cambridge C | 47 | 10 |
Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 55 | -5 |
Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 63 | 10 |
Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 64 | -5 |
Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Georgetown B | 64 | -5 |
Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Imperial B | 65 | -5 |
June Yin | WashU B | Chicago C | 72 | -5 |
Braden Booth | Missouri | Indiana B | 78 | -5 |
Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 79 | 10 |
Joel Crossley | Manchester | Imperial A | 80 | 10 |
Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF B | 88 | 10 |
Freddy Potts | Sheffield | Oxford C | 88 | 10 |
Liam Starnes | Chicago B | WashU A | 89 | -5 |
Arya Karthik | Oxford A | LSE | 91 | 10 |
Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago A | 92 | 10 |
Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida State A | 93 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Notre Dame B | 93 | 10 |
Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame C | 93 | 10 |
Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW A | 94 | -5 |
Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 94 | 10 |
Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame A | 97 | 10 |
Annika Larson | Claremont B | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
Adam Iqbal | Durham | Cambridge E | 101 | 10 |
Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Southampton A | 101 | 10 |
Lucas Mansfield | UW B | UBC | 103 | 10 |
Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCLA | 104 | -5 |
Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Indiana A | 110 | 10 |
Bryce Cruise | Texas A | ASU | 110 | 10 |
Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Bristol | 117 | -5 |
Amanda Zhao | Georgetown B | Iowa | 121 | 10 |
Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 122 | 10 |
Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 122 | 10 |
Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 122 | 10 |
Collin Nadarajah | WashU A | Chicago B | 122 | 10 |
Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Missouri | 122 | 10 |
Megan Ha | Chicago C | WashU B | 122 | 10 |
Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | Northwestern A | 122 | 10 |
Catherine Welch | UW A | Alberta | 122 | 10 |
Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas B | 122 | 10 |
Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 122 | 10 |
Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 122 | 10 |
James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge B | 122 | 10 |
Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 122 | 10 |
Elliot Cosnett | Oxford B | NYU C | 126 | 0 |
Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Oxford B | 126 | 0 |