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Name that Grafitto
You're heading into class and your classmate Denni sits down next to you and finds the following written on the desk:
K P C O F G s
Wondering why the "s" is lowercase, Denni asks you.
What does the "s" stand for?
K P C O F G s
Wondering why the "s" is lowercase, Denni asks you.
What does the "s" stand for?
Hint
It was a biology classroom.Answer
species.The list is of "taxa", the terms used in the latin names of living organisms.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, species.
When referring to an organism by its species in scientific notation, the genus is capitalized and the species is in lower case (eg. Homo sapiens, Felis domesticus). These names are normally italicized or underlined.
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Got this one pretty easy...we used that sequence of letters in bio last year!
In Bio huh? Interesting. It came up briefly in Bio for me.. but it was a bigger deal in 7th grade science for me, which is where I remembered it from.
Yay atty ^_^
Yay atty ^_^
I think I was taught this in 4th or 5th form biology.. so that would be when I was 14-15. ^_^ We were told to remember the sequence by coming up with a dumb saying of our own invention. Most of them were pretty bawdy.. and thus memorable.
How was I supposed to know that?
uummmm....I am smart...but not that smart...i was supposed to kno that how...
This is a teaser meant for people who have studied biology in highschool... if you haven't done that then don't worry if you didn't get it ^_^
In 7th grade, we learned that 'King Phillip Came Over From Great Spain'.
I learned "King Phil Comes Over For Grandma's Soup". Cool teaser, made me think!
OOPs, bio and science to long ago, did not remember that until I read the answer. My forhead is now very red.
I learned "Kids Playing Chess On Freeways Get Smashed".
didnt remmeber the sequence, but the hint gave it to me. nice trick with the lowercase s, that never wouldve occurred to me to add that in
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