queens - 2025 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

A hypothesis assigns this namesake role to microbes that "shoot the moon" by becoming leaky helpers. For 10 points each:

[10m] Give the namesake role of a hypothesis that characterizes evolution as perpetual and cyclic in order to explain sexual reproduction as a response to parasitism.

ANSWER: queens [or Red Queen or Black Queen]

[10h] Non-Black Queens evolve this trait that is contrasted with prototrophy. The "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis arose from the study of strains of mold with this trait, which survive on supplemented minimal medium.

ANSWER: auxotrophy [or auxotrophic]

[10e] Evolution of auxotrophy decreases the length of this construct, the C-value. This construct is the collection of all genetic information in an organism.

ANSWER: genome

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 3	Total
Adlai E. Stevenson A	Richard Montgomery	10	10	20
Alabama Cyber Tech	Lambert B	0	10	10
Barrington	Eastchester	0	10	10
Carl Sandburg	Thomas Jefferson E	0	0	0
Carmel A	Northside College Prep	10	10	20
Centennial B	Adlai E. Stevenson B	0	0	0
Chattahoochee B	White Pigeon	0	10	10
Classen SAS	Thomas Jefferson C	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central A	Winston Churchill A	10	10	20
Detroit Catholic Central B	Wayzata	0	10	10
Detroit Catholic Central C	Fairfield County AT	0	0	0
Downingtown STEM	Irvington	10	10	20
Edina	Belmont	0	10	10
Glenbrook South	Great Valley	0	10	10
Homewood-Flossmoor	Park Tudor	0	0	0
Hunter B	Seven Lakes	10	10	20
Innovation Academy A	Strake Jesuit B	0	10	10
Innovation Academy B	Lincoln-Way East B	10	10	20
Johns Creek	Kane County AT	10	10	20
Lambert A	Hinsdale Central A	10	10	20
Lexington	Centennial A	10	10	20
Lincoln-Way East A	Chattahoochee A	0	10	10
Montgomery Blair A	Herron	10	10	20
Montgomery Blair B	North Quincy	0	0	0
Northmont	Carmel B	0	10	10
Northview	Grosse Pointe South	0	10	10
Okemos	Yukon B	0	10	10
Parkway West	Milton	10	10	20
Quince Orchard	Virginia	0	10	10
Russell	Winston Churchill B	0	10	10
Saint Joseph	Uni School of Nashville A	0	10	10
Saratoga	Audrain County AT	0	0	0
Solon	Coronado	0	10	10
Thomas Jefferson A	Lindbergh	0	10	10
Thomas Jefferson B	Fremd	0	10	10
Uni School of Nashville B	Page	10	10	20
Uni of Illinois Laboratory	Yukon A	0	10	10
Walker	Lee's Summit	0	10	10
Walter Payton A	Thomas Jefferson D	10	10	20
Walter Payton B	Georgetown Day	0	0	0
West Point	Hunter A	0	10	10
Westwood	Strake Jesuit A	0	10	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2025 PACE NSC	06/07/2025	Y	42	11.67	83%	33%	0%