Biology
Chemistry
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Phamous Physicists and Their Publications
Psychology
100
The smallest unit of an organism that carries out the basic function of life.
What is a cell?
100
This ion is contributed by all aqueous acids.
What is H+ or proton or hydronium ion or H3O+?
100
He was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.
Who is Brook Taylor (or Taylor)?
100
Wrote a book entitled “A Brief History of Time” in 1988, almost 25 years after contracting a motor neurone disease and given two years to live
Who is Stephen Hawking?
100
In older people the most prevalent type of dementia is _____.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
200
In the process of transcription, mRNA is copied from this.
What is DNA?
200
The specific name for the H3O+ ion
What is the hydronium ion?
200
It is the mathematical study of continuous change which has two major branches: one is concerning rates of change, and the 2nd one is concerning accumulation of quantities.
What is Calculus?
200
Wrote a set of three books usually referred to as the Principia in 1687, in which he provides the laws that lay the foundation for classical mechanics
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
The theoretical perspective in psychology that emphasizes conscious experiences including each person’s unique potential for psychological growth.
What is the humanist perspective?
300
Single-celled organisms such as bacteria that lack a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
300
The formula of the conjugate base of HNO2
What is NO2- ? [include charge]
300
A polygon that is equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and equilateral (all sides have the same length)
What is a regular polygon?
300
Wrote the famous 1905 paper entitled “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” but his 1921 Nobel prize was “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
Who is Albert Einstein?
300
The right cerebral hemisphere is composed of this many brain lobes.
What is 4?
400
The complete genetic material of an organism.
What is a genome?
400
The color change of phenolphthalein upon crossing from acidic to basic (pH>9)
What is colorless to pink?
400
The number of centimeters in one meter.
What is 100?
400
Wrote a book entitled “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” in 1632 which involved a dialogue between Salviati, Sagredo and Simplicio
Who is Galileo?
400
The stage of sleep referred to as paradoxical sleep.
What is REM?
500
The major protein components of chromosomes.
What are histones?
500
The pH at equivalence of titration of monoprotic srtong acid and strong base.
What is 7?
500
The number of different bit (binary digit taking value either 0 or 1) strings of length 4.
What is 16?
500
Was the first author of the oft-cited 1998 paper in Physical Review Letters entitled “Family Symmetry and Neutrino Mixing”, based off of work completed as part of his Ph.D. thesis at Cal Tech
Who is John Elwood?
500
The large band of axons that links the two cerebral hemispheres of the human brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
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