Question
In the 1920s, this person proposed that the self-reproduction of mutated genes was key to natural selection. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this biologist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery that mutations can be induced by X-rays.” This person also names an effect where the absence of recombination leads to an accumulation of deleterious mutations.
ANSWER: Hermann Joseph Muller [accept Muller’s ratchet]
[10e] Muller’s work on organisms in this genus led to its chromosomal arms being named “Muller elements.” This genus’s melanogaster species is a common model organism.
ANSWER: Drosophila [accept Drosophila melanogaster]
[10h] Muller made Drosophila into a key model organism by developing this special X chromosome to track the hereditary transmission of mutations. This chromosome contains a dominant phenotypic marker for easy identification, a recessive lethal to kill any males receiving it, and an inversion to suppress meiotic crossing over.
ANSWER: ClB (“C-L-B”) chromosome [prompt on balancer chromosome by asking “what was the first balancer chromosome, used in Drosophila?”]
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Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |