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A 1959 insurgency in Mizoram was sparked, in part, by the flowering of the 50 year-cycle of Melocanna bamboo flowering which heralds devastating famine brought upon by these events known as mautam. For 10 points each:
[10h] Many southern and eastern Australian grain farmers have turned to zinc phosphide to cull what periodic events that coincide with excessive rainfall?
ANSWER: mouse plagues [or rat plagues or rat flood] (Zinc phosphide works by producing phosphine gas upon reacting with mouse stomach acid.)
[10m] In 2007, flooding from this province’s Lake Dongting forced 2 billion mice from their underground burrows and into its streets. This province, located south of Hubei, is the largest by area in South Central China.
ANSWER: Hunan [reject “Henan”]
[10e] A proposed mechanism of mouse biocontrol is “shredding” this chromosome in sperm cells using CRISPR to increase male populations while decreasing female ones.
ANSWER: X chromosome
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Chicago BPurdue A001010
Illinois BlueChicago A010010
Notre DameIllinois Orange001010
SIUEPurdue B010010