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A science quiz that is just for the love of science.
The Science Quiz appears twice a week in the daily science page. The page is available to read on all days except Saturday in the epaper.
Questions (answers at the bottom):
1. The largest cell and the smallest cell in the human body are naturally ‘made for each other’. Yet almost always a normal body will contain only one of these cells and not both. Which are these cells?
2. What five-letter word refers to a large ecosystem where plants, animals, insects, and people live in a certain type of climate? For example, in Brazil, one would be in a hot and humid _____ called the tropical rainforest.
3. What is common to ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb?
4. The study of the determinants, occurrence, and distribution of health and disease in a defined population is called what?
5. There are three ‘French’ chemical elements because of their nomenclature. One is Francium. Name the other two.