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■
| 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 | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 104.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama A | 55 | -5 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 63 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Georgetown B | 64 | -5 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Northwestern 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 |
| 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 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame C | 93 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Notre Dame B | 93 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida State A | 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 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Southampton A | 101 | 10 |
| Lucas Mansfield | UW B | UBC | 103 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCLA | 104 | -5 |
| Bryce Cruise | Texas A | ASU | 110 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Indiana A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 122 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 122 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge B | 122 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 122 | 10 |
| Collin Nadarajah | WashU A | Chicago B | 122 | 10 |