The daily biology dig · #71

Substrata

A free daily science quiz. Name a term for each prompt: every right answer digs you down, and the rarer it is, the deeper you go. Biology and chemistry, middle school to AP and IB.

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Wooden pickaxe · stone pickaxe at a 2-day streak
Dig #71 · prompt 1 of 7
AP U1

Name an amino acid

35 answers count. 3 tries left.

Play Substrata with your class

The same game, live. Put the code on the board and everyone digs the same prompts from their phones.

  • Rarer answers dig deeper, and an answer nobody else in the room gave earns a bonus.
  • The board shows every miner going down, and the answers the class found.
  • Free to host. Students join with a code, no accounts.
Dirt, 1 mCobblestone, 3 mIron ore, 6 mGold ore, 10 mDiamond ore, 16 mRarity comes from how often each answer is read on Wikipedia. The daily dig also shows what today’s other diggers found, counted anonymously.