Question
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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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 8.33 | 17% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 80% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 5.00 | 25% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 0% | 67% | 0% |