Life, Personal, Social Science
The process where a liquid changes into a gas or vapor.
Evaporation
Which state of matter is ice?
Solid
What is the chemical formula of diatomic oxygen?
O2
This physicist developed the theory of relativity and formulated the famous equation, E=mc^2.
Albert Einstein
Which cipher uses matrices to encode/decode words?
Hill cipher
This person proved that cholera spreads through contaminated drinking water rather than bad air during a deadly cholera outbreak in London.
John Snow
This crystal habit describes how crystals grow outwards from a central point with multiple crystals grow in diverging directions.
Radiation
Which reagent is used to test for reducing sugars such as monosaccharides?
Benedict’s (solution)
This scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields for her work on radioactivity
Marie Curie
Which organelle in the endomembrane system is responsible for the synthesis of lipid and detoxification in plant cells?
Endoplasmic Reticulum
This type of star forms when a low- to intermediate-mass star runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core, so it cools and expands to become a _____.
Red giant
What is the chemical formula for iron(III) sulfate?
Fe2(SO4)3
This Scottish physician and microbiologist suddenly discovered penicillin in 1928 after returning from vacation to find that a mold spore had contaminated a Pretoria dish and killed the surrounding bacteria.
Alexander Fleming
What geometric feature must a Revolve sketch not cross?
Axis of revolution
This plant hormone triggers seed germination by inducing the synthesis of hydrolytic enzymes like alpha amylase in the aleurone layer of cereal grains.
Gibberllin
This type of galaxy is dominated by old stars, contains little gas and dust, and has relatively little ongoing star formation.
Elliptical galaxy
Name the only two standard amino acids that contain a sulfur atom attached to their side chain.
Cysteine and methionine
Which Austrian monk and friar conducted hybridization experiments using pea plants in his monastery, and is widely regarded as the father of modern genetics?
Gregor Mendel
When setting up a standard 5x5 Polybius square for a checkerboard cipher, which two letters of the alphabet are traditionally grouped into a single grid coordinate cell?
I and J
This type of DNA polymerase primarily synthesizes the lagging strand in eukaryotes, extending primers and filling in DNA.
DNA polymerase δ (Pol δ)
You observe that a young stellar object (YSO) has both an accretion disk and bipolar jets. Which phase is this object in?
T Tauri
What is the name of the law stating that the net electric flux through a closed surface is proportional to the enclosed electric charge?
Gauss’s law
This physicist provided the first theoretical explanation for nuclear fission alongside her nephew, Otto Frisch, though was famously excluded from the 1944 Nobel Prize.
Lisa Meitner