famous scientists
Italian scientist who developed the idea that a fixed number of atoms/molecules exist in a mole.
Who was Amedeo Avogadro?
These two types of bonds are both stronger than hydrogen bonds.
covalent and ionic
Our club sponsor, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Clemson.
Who is Dr. Gary Powell?
this is a principle stating that different genes separate independently from one another in meiosis.
Bonus 100 points: This is the location of Clemson's Center for Human Genetics.
What is independent assortment?
Bonus: where is Greenwood, SC?
What is a salamander (axolotl)?
Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist famous for the discovery that the ratios of A to T and G to C are equal in DNA are equal (i.e. A=T, G=C)
Who was Erwin Chargaff?
Name three factors that can affect the activity of an enzyme
temperature, pH, concentration
our five officers (hint: president, vice president, treasurer, public relations, and secretary)
Who are Ben, Doris, Isaac, Danielle, and Katelynne
genetic components that copy and paste themselves into different genomic locations by converting RNA to DNA through the process reverse transcription
what are retrotransposons?
These three people are the current Clemson football head coach, offensive coordinator, and defensive coordinator.
200 point bonus: In 1896, Clemson changed its school colors to orange and purple. The answer to this bonus question is Clemson's colors in 1895.
Who are Dabo Swinney, Tony Elliott, and Brent Venables?
BONUS: what are red and blue? (garnet and navy blue)
Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin
Who was Alexander Fleming?
This is the net reaction for photosynthesis.
Bonus 100 points: indicate which molecules are being reduced/oxidized.
6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2
Bonus: water is oxidized to molecular oxygen. Carbon dioxide is reduced to glucose.
Leishmania and spider silk!
Who is Dr. Todd Lyda?
method of DNA sequencing based on the selective incorporation of chain-terminating ddNTPs. These chains are compared to one another to solve for the sequence of a DNA strand.
What is Sanger sequencing?
These are the three largest countries in the world in order by landmass.
100 point bonus for #4 and #5.
What are Russia, Canada, US?
Bonus: what are China and Brazil?
(1901-1994) Highly respected American chemist/biochemist known for discovering the spiral structure of proteins. Fell out of favor with the scientific community when he advocated for megavitamin therapy, leading people consume 15-20 times the recommended amount of vitamin C daily.
Who was Linus Pauling?
There are 20 commonly occurring amino acids, but there is the only one that is achiral
glycine
Tumor biosignature discovery through merging gene co-expression and gene regulatory network
(hint: bioinformatics)
Who is Dr. Alex Feltus?
There are five nitrogenous bases commonly found in DNA/RNA. These bases can be split into two categories: purines and pyrimidines.
List the purines and the pyrimidines.
What is the defining difference between the two categories?
Purines: A, G
Pyrimidines: C, U, T
Purines have one ring. Pyrimidines have two rings.
The national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. SHE collected data that contributed to the visualization of DNA structure, which Watson and Crick took credit for in elucidating the structure of DNA.
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
This is one of the three regulatory enzymes involved in glycolysis
Bonus 500 points: These are all three.
What is hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, or pyruvate kinase?
Clemson local family medicine physician who runs his own medical practice. Has spent much of the last two years fighting against the spread of COVID-19.
Who is Dr. Ted Swann (Swann Medicine)
The human genome has approximately 3.2 billion base pairs. The answer to this question is approximately how many base pairs the salamander genome has.
What is 30 to 120 billion base pairs
The World Chess Championship match is coming up in late November. The match to decide the next world champion is between these two grandmasters.
Magnus Carlsen (current world champion) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (challenger)