HEART DISEASE
A disease that involves narrowing or blocking of coronary arteries
What is coronary artery disease?
The name of the website(s) that was used to search for the gene of interest
What is UNIPROT?
Cells use these to communicate with one another.
What are chemical signals / ligands?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the Mitochondria?
The best science teacher at BVHS.
Who is Ms. Wegner?
The fatty deposit that builds up in the arteries, causing atherosclerosis.
What is plaque (lipids)?
The name of the gene that we searched for
What is SMAD3?
Cells use these to detect a cellular signal.
What is a receptor?
The atomic symbol for gold.
What is Au?
The NBA team that won the NBA finals most recently.
Who are the Toronto Raptors?
The term that is used to describe a disease that has many factors that affect it
What is multifactorial?
The subcellular location of our gene of interest.
What is the nucleus?
A game that you can compare cell signaling to.
What is Telephone?
The two people that proposed the double helix structure of DNA.
Who are Watson and Crick?
The NFL athlete that won MVP in 2019.
Who is Lamar Jackson?
The number of seconds between heart attacks in the United States
What is 37 seconds?
The sub-section in which known diseases related to the gene of interest can be found.
What is Pathology and Biotech?
The increasing strength of signal at each step of signaling.
What is signal amplification?
The number of base pairs per one turn of the DNA double helix.
What is 10?
The movie that won the 2020 Oscar for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
Proteins that turn specific genes “on” or “off”
What are transcription factors?
The domain responsible for DNA binding in our gene of interest.
What is MH1?
The first messenger that starts signal transduction in a smooth muscle cell.
What is Nitric Oxide (NO)?
A genome editing tool composed of guide RNAs and a DNA cutting enzyme.
What is the CRISPR/Cas9 system?
The song that won Song of the Year at the Grammys most recently.
What is “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish?