Molecular Biology
The two components that make up chromatin.
What are DNA and histones?
The term for organisms found at the first trophic level in a food chain.
What are primary producers?
You have to take one of these 200 level courses to complete your biology major.
What is Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology?
This primatologist is famous for her groundbreaking decades-long study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park
Who is Jane Goodall?
What is bios, which means life?
The four different types of possible mutations.
What are frameshift, silence, mis-sense and nonsense?
Organisms in the genus Bombus are responsible for the pollination of many plants. What are they more commonly called?
What is a bumble bee?
This professor is known for her research on C. elegans and was abroad last semester in Australia with the Colgate study group.
Who is Professor Van Wynsberghe
The two biologists are responsible for proposing the double helix model of DNA in 1953.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
This organelle is responsible for the green color in plants.
What are chloroplasts?
The name of the enzyme that relaxes supercoiling in DNA.
What is topoisomerase?
This organism is considered a "missing link" between fish and tetrapods.
What is tiktaalik?
This is the only biology professor who is also a professor for mathematics.
Who is Professor Ay?
This female biologist used X-ray crystallography to capture "Photo 51," which was critical to understanding the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
These professors are teaching the lecture portion of Biology 182 this semester.
Who are Professor Meyers, Professor Holm, and Professor McMillan?
What is an inhibitor that binds to an enzyme in a place that is not the active site, causing a conformational change in the active site and the Vmax to decrease.
This trait allows plants to have an independent sporophyte and gametophyte generations.
What is the alternation of multicellular generations?
This is the amount hectares of forested lands that Colgate has accessible for student-faculty research (field areas)
What is 1500 hectares?
This discovery, which provided the "molecular scissors" for genetic engineering, is a bacterial defense system that uses enzymes to cut foreign DNA at specific sequences.
What are restriction enzymes?
This is what Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered.
What are micro-organisms (bacteria, protists, nematodes etc.)?
The process by which proteins are tagged for degradation.
Ubiquitization.
This term describes the process by which plants move nutrients away from their leaves to store in their trunks and roots over the winter, leaving the leaving beautiful fall colors.
What is senescence?
This biology program sends students to Flathead Lake Biological Station every other year (during a specific season). Students take field-oriented biology courses and course field trips to national parks and wilderness areas.
What is the Montana Summer Program?
This theory, championed by Lynn Margulis, was strongly supported by the discovery that mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own circular DNA and 70S ribosomes.
What is endosymbiosis?
This is what CRISPR stands for.