Microscopy
Famous Scientists
Cytology
Anatomy
Botany
100
This purple dye is the main staining component used in gram staining techniques.
What is crystal violet
100
This geneticist discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance during the mid 1800s.
Who is Gregor Mendel
100
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell
100
This is the largest human organ by size.
What is the skin
100
This is the name of the process by which green plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce glucose.
What is photosynthesis
200
This type of bacteria will stain pink when dyed with safranin.
What is gram-negative
200
This scientist's work in the Galápagos Islands placed the groundwork for his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin
200
This is where glycolysis takes place in eukaryotes.
What is the cytoplasm
200
This bone is a part of the shoulder girdle
What is the scapula
200
This is the botanical name for the male reproductive organ in flowering plants.
What is the stamen
300
This type of muscle cell has intercalated discs.
What is cardiac muscle
300
This ethologist and conservationist shaped the standard for behavioral experiments during her time with wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.
Who is Dr. Jane Goodall
300
The cell membrane is composed of a amphipathic bilayer of these molecules.
What are phospholipids
300
This bone is the smallest of the adult human skeleton.
What is the stapes
300
This is a ripened ovary of a flowering plant that contains seeds.
What is a fruit
400
This microscopy technique is used to view thin specimens through which electrons can pass generating a projection image like the one pictured.
What is Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
400
This French scientist was the first win two Nobel prizes, in addition to being the first woman to win a Nobel prize.
Who is Dr. Marie Skłodowska-Curie
400
This organelle is composed of a cis and trans face.
What is the golgi apparatus
400
This organ is composed of a greater and lesser curvature.
What is the stomach
400
This type of plant sheds its leaves before winter, or during a dry spell.
What is a Deciduous plant
500
This microscopy technique, using a beam of electrons to create magnified images of a material's surface, is able to produce images like the one pictured here.
What is Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
500
This English physician is credited to have created the first vaccine using cowpox matter against smallpox in 1796.
Who is Dr. Edward Jenner
500
This protein makes up microtubules of the cytoskeleton.
What is tubulin
500
These cells are responsible for making myelin sheaths in the peripheral nervous system.
What are Schwann cells
500
This vascular tissue in plants that carries water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves and stems.
What is xylem