Anatomy & Physiology 101
Phase of cardiac cycle when the ventricles contract and eject blood.
What is ventricular systole?
Scale measuring the absolute temperature of a substance
What is Kelvin scale?
This UBC campus tradition involves climbing a 12-foot wall
What is Storm the Wall?
The year UBC welcomed the new CAPS Major
What is 2024?
The Christopher Nolan film that explores the creation of the first atomic bomb during World War II.
What is Oppenheimer?
The major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS
What is GABA?
Gas that makes up largest part of Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
UBC's official student-run newspaper
What is The Ubyssey?
Before becoming its own student association, CAPSSA was previously part of a joint club with this other UBC student association
What is Pharmacology Student Association?
This person is considered the "King of Pop"
What is Michael Jackson?
The anatomical plane that divides the body into equal left and right portions.
What is midsagittal plane?
Epigenetic modification that generally reduces transcription when added to promoter DNA
What is DNA methylation?
UBC's current president
What is Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon?
UBC CAPS professor that has multiple educational neuroanatomy videos on YouTube with millions of views
What is Claudia Krebs?
The 2010 FIFA World Cup Winners
What is Spain?
Anatomical name of the only freely movable bone of the skull.
What is the mandible?
Law describing how light bends when passing between two media of different refractive indices
What is Snell's Law?
This latin phrase phrase is UBC's official motto and translates to "It is yours"
What is Tuum est?
Before the program became known as CAPS, courses in the program were identified using this four-letter course-code prefix
What is PHYL?
Story where three witches deliver prophecies that help set a Scottish nobleman on a path toward becoming king
What is Macbeth?
Condition when blood volume falls enough to reduce venous return and cardiac output.
What is hypovolemic shock?
Type of gene that affects multiple distinct traits in an organism
What is pleiotropic gene?
UBC alumna that became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
What is Michael Smith?
UBC CAPS professor that is one of the authors of the widely popular anatomy textbook, Gray’s Anatomy for Students
What is A. Wayne Vogl?
Russian composer who wrote the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty
What is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?