--- title: The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Part two of the big quiz looks at the living things we often forget: plants that make their own food, mushroom --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The big biology quiz, part 2: plants,… # The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes Lesson 299 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/0/) — Part two of the big quiz looks at the living things we often forget: plants that make their own food, mushrooms that are not plants at all, the tiny germs and helpful microbes all around us, and the body you live in. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/1/) — Think of baking bread at home: you mix flour, water and a spoon of yeast, and an hour later the dough has puffed up. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/2/) — That is a living fungus at work, eating sugar and breathing out gas bubbles. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/3/) — The same few ideas answer many questions: plants make food from light, every living thing carries a recipe called DNA, and germs come in different kinds, so each needs the right weapon. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/5/) — Plants need light, water, air and nutrients from the soil; they make their own food from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/6/) — Flowers make seeds after pollination by bees, wind or birds, and the fruit grows around the seeds to help spread them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/7/) — Mushrooms are fungi, a kingdom of their own; fungi cannot make food from sunlight and are closer to animals than to plants, and many wild mushrooms are deadly, so never pick them to eat. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/8/) — An adult has 206 bones, while a baby has about 300 that join as it grows; the smallest bone is in the ear and the biggest is the thigh bone. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/9/) — The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood around the body about 100000 times a day, and blood carries oxygen and food to every cell. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/10/) — Germs are living things far too small to see without a microscope, such as bacteria, or viruses, that can make us ill; washing hands with soap removes many germs, and most bacteria are harmless or helpful, like those in your gut. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/11/) — Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only work on bacteria, so rest, drinks and time help a cold, and using antibiotics wrongly helps resistant bacteria spread. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/12/) — A vaccine shows the body a harmless copy or part of a germ, so the body learns to fight it and is ready if the real germ comes; vaccines wiped out smallpox and have saved hundreds of millions of lives. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/13/) — Smell does a big part of tasting, so with a blocked nose food tastes flat; the tongue itself senses sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury all over, not in separate zones. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/14/) — In autumn trees stop making green chlorophyll, so yellow and orange colours that were hidden show through, some leaves make new red colours, and then the leaves fall to save water in winter. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes/16/) — DNA is the recipe for a living thing, found in almost every cell; it is written with four chemical letters, and you get half from each parent, so your parents, brothers and sisters share more of your DNA than anyone else. - ← previous: [The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/) - next →: [The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/300-the-big-biology-quiz-part-3-dinosaurs-evolution-conservation-and-food/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)