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Round 8: Tossup 14

Regions with high values of this property will appear as spikes in the “score value” on a Kyte-Doolittle chart. Removal of molecules with this property during protein folding reduces clathrate-like formations, increasing entropy. Bulky residues with this property such as tryptophan and phenylalanine (15[1])are hidden inside proteins due to an “effect” named for this property. The (*) interior portion of the cell membrane possesses this property, as it largely consists of hydrocarbon chains. Molecules with this property will separate from an aqueous solution. For 10 points, (10[1])name this “water-fearing” property of some molecules, (10[1])unlike hydrophilicity. ■END■

ANSWER: hydrophobicity [accept word forms like hydrophobic; accept hydrophobic regions or the hydrophobic effect; prompt on non-polarity; reject “polar”; reject “hydrophilicity” or “hydrophile”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Simon BrewerManchester AChimera4215
Stephen DonoghueSheffield BEdinburgh8410
Frank LovellSheffield AManchester B9110

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✕6100%50%33%62.67
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓3100%33%33%68.00
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓3100%0%33%81.00
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓475%0%75%88.33
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓5100%20%60%68.20
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓3100%33%0%72.33
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓4100%0%75%83.25
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓3100%67%67%61.67
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓5100%0%40%85.80
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓8100%50%25%50.63