Know your Bio Professors!
These courses are taught by Dr. Tobey Colston during the Fall 2026 semester.
What is BIOL 061, BIOL 113?
The full name of Tribeta
What is Beta Beta Beta National Biological Honors Society?
Name the four macromolecules.
What is Nucleic acids, Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Lipids?
This protein in red blood cells binds to oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
This term describes different versions of the same gene.
What are Alleles?
These professors are alumni of TriBeta.
Who are Dr. Thiemann, and Dr. Weiser?
Next week's lab tour is with these professors.
Who are Dr. Orwin and Dr. Rivera?
The metabolic pathway consisting of 10 reactions that converts glucose into pyruvates
What is glycolysis?
This part of the brain is primarily responsible for balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
The process by which cells engulf large particles using their membrane
What is Phagocytosis?
Dr. Torres studies the evolutionary history and specialized filter-feeding adaptations of this famously pink bird.
What is the flamingo?
Pacific’s chapter of TriBeta is named for this Greek letter, which also means the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is omicron?
This is the only amino acid that does not possess chirality.
what is Glycine?
Blood returning from the body enters this chamber of the heart first.
What is the right atrium?
Name the levels of taxonomic hierarchy.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
This university is where Dr. Thomas earned his PhD
What is UC Berkeley?
Tribeta has official national partnership with this organization to help add life-saving bone marrow and blood stem cell donors to the global registry.
What is NMDP?
The multi-enzyme group that converts pyruvate to acetyl-CoA, linking Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle
What is the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex?
This glycoprotein layer surrounding the oocyte plays a key role in sperm binding and helps prevent polyspermy after fertilization.
What is zona pellucida?
This organelle contains its own DNA and is thought to have originated from a free-living prokaryote through endosymbiosis.
What is mitochondrion?
Dr. Jongeward has been at University of the Pacific since this year.
What is 1996?
A student who joins TriBeta but does not yet meet the academic requirements for regular membership belongs to this membership classification.
What is an Associate Member?
the approximate pK value of the carboxyl group on free amino acids in a cell
what is pK 2.0
On H&E staining of the pancreas, these structures appear as pale-staining, rounded clusters of cells scattered among the more intensely stained exocrine acini and lack ducts.
What are islets of Langerhans?
What protein complex degrades ubiquitin-tagged proteins in eukaryotic cells?
What is the proteasome?