Year 10 Biology ‘Big quiz’

When we arrived in the University of Birmingham, a student ambassador gave us a quick tour of the major areas of the university, such as the Great Hall and the 100m tall clock tower. The myth is that if you walk underneath the tower when it chimes you will fail your degree, so best to be careful! The football and tennis courts and the Olympic sized swimming pool were all amazing too.

For the Biology Quiz there were 6 topics in total, some of which were ‘Evolution and adaptation’; ‘Microorganisms’; ‘DNA’ and the special round of ‘Cancer causes and effects.’

After round 3 was lunch, followed by an interesting lecture on the effects of increased carbon dioxide concentrations on trees and wildlife, and the current experiments testing this.

All 15 of us that attended had a really enjoyable day, all of the students involved were:

Shrey Kapoor, Omar Ahmed, Tarandeep Saggu, Haasin Ali, Asher Jordan, Kai Dawkins, Hassan Sardar, Rafae Ajaz, Haisem Zeino, Moosa Khan, Basel Ziyara, Jay Sodhi, Malachy Hayes, Hariikishan Nemal and Anotidaishe Mudunge.

Well done to everyone, but especially to Basel, Moosa and Rafae for being second place out of more than 60 teams, and only 2 points away from winning the quiz!

Haisem Zeino (10A)