Biology
This amino acid is typically represented by the letter "K"
Lysine
This is the most common first program written when learning a new programming language.
What is “Hello, World!”?
This statistical measure is used to quantify the dispersion of a dataset and is calculated as the square root of the variance.
What is the standard deviation?
In Jurassic Park, scientists recreate dinosaurs by extracting DNA from these tiny prehistoric creatures trapped in amber.
What are mosquitoes?
This scientist is credited with the discovery of the laws of motion.
Who is Issac Newton
This area of the brain located in the left hemisphere is responsible for speech production.
What is Broca's Area?
In binary and hexadecimal, this number is represented as 1010 + A.
What is 20?
This special type of square matrix has ones along the main diagonal and zeros everywhere else. When multiplied by any compatible matrix, it leaves the matrix unchanged.
What is the identity matrix?
In the X-Men franchise, this fictional gene is responsible for giving mutants their superhuman abilities.
What is the X-gene?
The author of ‘On the Origin of Species,’ this naturalist introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This tumor suppressor gene is typically referred to as “the guardian of the genome”–what protein does it code for?
p53
In bioinformatics, DNA sequences are stored in this widely used text-based file format, which begins with a greater-than (>) symbol followed by a sequence identifier.
What is the FASTA format?
In Markov models used for sequence analysis, the sum of transition probabilities from any given state must always equal this number.
What is 1?
In Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this experimental drug, originally designed to cure Alzheimer's, enhances the intelligence of apes and leads to their rebellion.
What is ALZ-112?
This inventor and electrical engineer’s innovations in alternating current power systems revolutionized the way electricity is delivered.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
A population in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium is described by p = 0.7 and q = 0.3. What percent of the population are heterozygotes?
What is 42%?
This shortest-path algorithm is commonly used in protein interaction networks and metabolic pathways to find the most efficient connections between molecules.
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm?
The expected number of occurrences of a given short DNA motif in a random sequence of length n can be estimated using this probability distribution.
What is the Poisson distribution?
In GATTACA, society is divided into two groups based on genetics: the genetically engineered elite and those born naturally. This term is used to describe individuals born without genetic modification.
What are "In-Valids"?
This scientist discovered penicillin.
Who is Alexander Flemming?
What percent of DNA do humans share with bananas?
What is 50-60%?
This string-matching algorithm, commonly used in bioinformatics, finds approximate matches between DNA sequences and is used in tools like BLAST.
What is the Smith-Waterman algorithm?
Principal Component Analysis (PCA), often used in genomic data analysis, relies on computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of this matrix.
What is the covariance matrix?
How does Mark Watney stay warm in the rover during his journey through MARS in The Martian?
What is a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)?
-also acceptable a device that generates heat from the natural radioactive decay of PLUTONIUM-238
These scientists developed AlphaFold. NAME ONE.
Who is Demis Hassabis and John Jumper?