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 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 93 | 10 |
| Qingyu Zhang | Florida B | Florida State A | 93 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame C | 93 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Notre Dame B | 93 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech D | 94 | 10 |
| Bennett Grappone | Alberta | UW A | 94 | -5 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Notre Dame A | 97 | 10 |
| Tobin Payne | Warwick B | Southampton A | 101 | 10 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont B | UC Berkeley A | 101 | -5 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tony Liang | TAMU | Texas B | 122 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Louisville A | 122 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Tennessee A | 122 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 122 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 122 | 10 |
| Catherine Welch | UW A | Alberta | 122 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Cambridge B | 122 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | Cambridge D | 122 | 10 |