Genetics
This 19th-century monk used pea plants to discover the basic laws of inheritance.
Gregor Mendel
A typical adult skeleton has this many bones
206
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in physics and in this other science.
chemistry
Sneezing spreads these tiny infectious agents that cause colds and flu.
viruses
Water is made of hydrogen and this element.
Oxygen
In DNA, this base pairs with adenine.
What is thymine?
The smallest bone in the human body is found in this part of the body.
ear (the stapes)
Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccine, against this disease
smallpox
E. coli is short for this bacterium's full name.
Escherichia coli
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
Mars
Male Drosophila lack this process, so linked genes show only parental types in a male testcross.
What is crossing over (recombination)?
It is the largest organ of the human body.
Skin
In 1953, Watson and Crick, using data from Rosalind Franklin, described the double helix of this molecule.
DNA
Mosquitoes spread this parasitic disease, caused by Plasmodium.
Malaria
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
An F2 phenotypic ratio of 9:3:3:1 in a dihybrid cross indicates the two genes are this.
unlinked (independently assorting)
Your stomach makes this strong acid with a pH of about 1.5 to 3.5.
Hydrochloric acid
Thomas Hunt Morgan used this tiny insect to show that genes sit on chromosome.
Fruit fly (Drosophila)
The trillions of microbes living in your gut are collectively called this.
Microbiome (microbiota)
The SI unit of force is named for this English scientist.
Newton (Isaac Newton)
One of these map units equals 1% recombination between two linked genes
centimorgan (cM)
The longest nerve in the body runs from the lower back down the leg and has this name.
Sciatic nerve
Doudna and Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this gene-editing tool.
CRISPR (CRISPR-Cas9)
Mad cow disease is caused by these misfolded infectious proteins.
Prions
An octopus has this many hearts.
Three