Chem/Phys/Bio
Humans have 22 pairs of of nonsex ___ and one pair of non-nonsex ___.
In 1865, this monk presented the results of his breeding experiments with pea plants to the Natural Science Society in Brünn.
Around week 7 of pregnancy, its called this; after, it's a fetus.
What is an embryo?
The Red Cross sends a tactical brand of this, a device with a French-derived name that is used to stop bleeding.
What is a tourniquet?
Sodium chloride, more commonly known as "table" this.
What is salt?
Experiments performed in test tubes or "cell-free?"
What is in vitro?
In 1800, Alessandro Volta announced his invention, the voltaic pile, he predecessor to the modern this.
What is a battery?
It's the lightest stable subatomic particle (that we know about).
What is an electron?
After racing a rival to a cure, Dr. Albert Sabin got an oral vaccine for this approved in the U.S. in 1961.
What is polio?
Don't chuckle - Nitrous Oxide also goes by this name.
What is laughing gas?
Process for tagging proteins for destruction?
What is ubiquitization?
CHCl3, also known as this, was administered as an anesthetic to Queen Victoria when she gave birth to Prince Leopold?
What is chloroform?
Langerhans cells are found in this layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
In 2014, this actor, then age 83, saved a choking man by doing the Heimlich Maneuver.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
Chimney sweeps may find this 4-letter form of amorphous carbon coating their workplace.
What is soot?
It's the study if fishes, all 30,000 or so species of them.
What is Ichthyology?
A brilliant mathematician, she wrote the program for Charles Babbage's early computer prototype.
Who was Ada Lovelace?
These hormones relieve pain but probably don't give the runner's high as once thought.
What are endorphins?
In 1943, Dr. William Kolff's artificial kidney pioneered this treatment of removing, purifying, and returning blood.
What is dialysis?
Sodium bicarbonate, used in ovens and refrigerators alike, is known by this common 2-word name.
What is baking soda?
In 2-D gels, this technique first separates the mixture based on pH effect on charge.
What is isoelectric focusing?
This Brit lent his name to a cage that shields what's inside from electromagnetic radiation.
Who was Faraday?
It's hibernation, but in summer.
What is estivation?
There's a statue in Central Park of this heroic sled dog for helping run a diphtheria antitoxin to remote Alaskans in 1925.
Who is Balto?
"G" is for this, hydrated calcium sulfate, often used in drywall.
What is gypsum?