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Our office room number?
What is MRN 021?
This non-coding region of RNA is spliced out during pre-mRNA processing before translation into a protein.
What is an Intron?
The thermodynamic principle stating that a system at equilibrium will shift to counteract any applied stress.
What is Le Chatelier's Principle?
The highest-grossing film of the 2000s, directed by James Cameron and set on the lush alien moon of Pandora.
What is Avatar?
The only country in the world that uses a non-rectangular national flag.
What is Nepal?
The SSA Mascot!
Who is Molly-cule the mole?
The enzyme responsible for unwinding the DNA double helix during replication by breaking hydrogen bonds.
What is DNA helicase?
The shape assigned to a molecule with five bonding pairs and zero lone pairs around the central atom according to VSEPR theory.
What is trigonal bipyramidal?
The record-breaking 2021 Korean survival drama that became Netflix's most-watched series of all time.
What is Squid Games
The term for a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, such as "racecar."
What is a Palindrome?
This SSA role has not existed for 2 years now.
What is Academic Assistant
The metabolic pathway in the mitochondrial matrix that oxidizes acetyl-CoA to produce NADH, FADH2, and ATP/GTP.
What is the Krebs Cycle / Citric Acid Cycle?
A reaction mechanism step where a nucleophile attacks a carbon atom while a leaving group leaves simultaneously in a concerted, single step
What is an SN2 reaction?
The character who broke the internet by saying "I'm coming to the cottage."
Ilya Rozanov
The only land mammal that is completely incapable of jumping off the ground.
What is the Elephant?
Bill Nye visited uOttawa and the SSA in this year.
What is 2018.
The epigenetic mechanism where methyl groups are added to cytosine bases in DNA, typically silencing gene expression without changing the underlying sequence.
What is DNA Methylation?
This thermodynamic state function represents the total heat content of a system at constant pressure.
What is Enthalpy?
This 2020 indie deduction game exploded in global popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, making terms like "sus" and "impostor" mainstream slang.
What is Among Us?
The deepest known location on Earth, located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench.
What is Challenger Deep?
Before the modern STEM Complex was completed, this former science building was demolished to make way for the new facility.
What is the Macdonald Hall
This key enzyme in glycolysis catalyzes the irreversible phosphorylation of fructose-6-phosphate and serves as the main rate-limiting step.
What is Phosphofructokinase-1?
This equation relates the rate constant of a reaction to temperature, activation energy, and the pre-exponential factor.
What is the Arrhenius Equation?
This 2008 Christopher Nolan film featured Heath Ledger's Oscar-winning performance as the Joker.
What is The Dark Knight?
This animal's unique fingerprints are so visually identical to human fingerprints that they have occasionally confused forensic investigators at crime scenes.
What is a Koala?