Chemistry
This is a compound or mixture of chemicals that is used to maintain a stable pH.
What is a buffer?
This nucleobase replaces thymine, in RNA.
What is Uracil?
This scientist discovered radioactivity and was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
Who is Maria Skłodowska-Curie?
He is the shy, long-suffering assistant of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from “The Muppet Show” who shares his name with a flat-bottomed cylindrical container used in chemistry.
Who is Beaker?
What is the common name of the colorless, highly pungent gas whose chemical formula is NH3?
What is Ammonia?
This is the location of the citric acid cycle in eukaryotes.
What are the mitochondria?
This Franciscan friar is famous for his genetic experiments with pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
What tradition involves the Kauke Arch during the winter?
What is fill the arch?
This is the name of the number of units per one mole.
What is Avogadro's Number?
What substance causes an immune response in the body that leads to the production of antibodies?
What is an antigen?
Born in 1822, this French chemist has a type of food preservation process named after him and is recognized by many as the “Father of bacteriology” and the “Father of microbiology".
Who is Louis Pasteur?
What was found in the attic of Douglass 2 years ago?
A headstone
First proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904, a model of the atom in which electrons were embedded in a large positively-charged mass, with no nucleus, was popularly known by what alliterative food nickname?
What is the Plum Pudding Model?
Drosophila melanogaster is perhaps the world's most famous "model organisms" used in scientific research. What's the better-known alliterative name of this "common" insect?
What is the fruit fly?
This scientist is famous for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA through X-ray diffraction.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
What do you call the center of the atom?
Nucleus
On the periodic table, Francium is named for the country of France. Less obviously, what metallic element gets its name from the old Latin name for what is now France?
What is Gallium?
Separating bacteria into "positive" or "negative" groups based on their cell wall composition is what 2-word testing method beginning with G?
What is Gram stain?
This Polish astronomer proposed the heliocentric solar system and has an element named after him.
Who is Copernicus?
Bert Babcock funded the first purchase of Wooster kilts in the 1920s. Where did he gain his fortune?