Packet 4: Bonus 3

Chromatium and De·sulfo·vibrio bacteria perform this interaction by utilizing each other’s sulfur waste products as energy sources. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this form of facultative mutualism in which the beneficial relationship is not obligatory for either partner.
ANSWER: protocooperation [prompt on cooperation or word forms; reject “commensalism”]
[10m] In an example of protocooperation, E. coli and Entero·coccus work together to metabolize this amino acid into putrescine (“pew-TRUH-seen”). A manganese-containing enzyme converts this amino acid to ornithine in the last step of the urea cycle.
ANSWER: L-arginine [or Arg; accept R; accept arginase]
[10e] Attini ants protocooperate with these organisms by colonizing the latter into “gardens.” Mycorrhizae (“mai-KOH-rye-zay”) form from the mutualism between members of this kingdom and plant roots.
ANSWER: funguses [or Fungi]
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3813.68100%37%0%

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Conversion

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
(give me an) ANSWER: die for baseballChicago !A001010E
1000000 DelinquentsIn the Mood for Transportation Equipment001010E
A Neg of Beauty is a Joy ForeverDour Straits0101020ME
Abbas I founded the AbbasidsUBC B001010E
BHSUThe tram is not in service; please use the moving walkway.0101020ME
Berkeley ATeam 70101020ME
Catholic University AMunir Siddiqui Fan Club001010E
Constans Constantius and Constantine Jr.Stanford A0101020ME
David Foster GromitPolish Orthographers Posting Their Łs001010E
Dielectrical MaterialismVacuous Tortoise0101020ME
Georgia Tech 𓂈𓆉𓃡 Ana Pauker? I hardly know her!0101020ME
Habitat 67The "C" Team0101020ME
I'm just here (being trivia club president) so I won't get finedLicence to Bill001010E
IndianaQuebecois Olga Tokarczuk be like 'freins de jacob interdits'0101020ME
Invective Against SwansExecute Order 6 7001010E
It's something unpredictable/that in the end is right/please refrain from e-mailing my wifeCopán Seethe001010E
Maryland F♯ A♯ ∞Contessa Dora0101020ME
Muscle Mass Extinction EventNorthwestern001010E
NYU AUntitled by Alexander McQueen by Premeditated Chaos by Alexander McQueen by Percival Everett001010E
Negged Five Times in a Yellow Cab Against the Gottis and GambinosShipping Down from Ballston001010E
No Country for Old QuizzersC R A B S001010E
Noah Sheidlower NYU B or not NYU B (that is the question)001010E
Not Old! (Old)Stanford B0101020ME
Penn StateJHU001010E
Rosslyn Academic Teamhttps://i.imgur.com/C6nN2FE.png001010E
Six Quizbowlers in Search of Owen MinmoUntitled Keyal Team001010E
Strange Case of Dr. Joker and Mr. PennywiseI fear not the man who has reviewed 10000 cards once, but I fear the man who has reviewed one card 10000 times001010E
Team 8Berkeley B001010E
The Fire Neg TimeCapital One in the Twenty-First Century0101020ME
The Saint-Straw that Broke the Camille's BackSurrealist Subcommandante Marcos be like Esto no es una pipa0101020ME
The Third Time when she was Given to Answer the Hard and the Easy, and Answered Only the EasyH Charlson's Washed Up Scrubs001010E
The Umayyad Caliphate be like REPEAL NAPHTHAGirls who Just Want to Have Fun + Liam0101020ME
UBC AThe Unbearable Heaviness of History Players001010E
UNC CharityMike and Psmith001010E
UTKSay It Ain't Zhou001010E
Where's the nearest library, I need to have a public crashout.Guelph Cloze001010E
You Don't Have the CardsLicence to C. Wright Mill0101020ME
consumption smoothing by borrowing future big law incomeMiddlesex County Fetty Wap Fan Club001010E

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026✓417.50100%75%0%
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026✓210.00100%0%0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026✓316.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025✓412.50100%25%0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025✓512.00100%20%0%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025✓316.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025✓415.00100%50%0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/2025✓613.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025✓512.00100%20%0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025✓210.00100%0%0%