BOTANY
What is a chloroplast?
This field involves using organisms to create useful products or solve problems for human benefit
What is biotechnology?
This US state is home to the Grand Canyon
What is Arizona?
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume
What is a solid?
This year marks the founding of the college
What is 1845?
The light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis take place in this part of the chloroplast
What is the thylakoid membrane?
Discovered by Watson and Crick in 1953, this double-helical molecule carries genetic information
What is DNA?
This element, represented by the symbol ‘O’, is essential for human respiration
What is oxygen?
The ability of gases to spread and mix without being stirred is called this
What is diffusion?
This iconic building, completed in 1849, is one of the oldest structures on campus
What is the Quad?
This enzyme is responsible for carbon fixation in the Calvin-Benson cycle but sometimes binds to oxygen instead of CO2
What is RubisCO?
Proteins have four levels of structure - primary, secondary, tertiary, and this level, which describes how multiple polypeptides interact
What is quaternary structure?
This literary character left a glass slipper behind at the royal ball
Who is Cinderella?
The sum of all exponent in a rate law equation determines this
What is the overall order of the reaction?
The college is known for its strong research in this marine-related field
What is ocean and marine science?
These microscopic openings on plant leaves allowing for gas exchange can can open or close depending on environmental conditions
What are stomata?
This type of biotechnology focuses on medical applications, including the development of vaccines & gene therapies
What is red biotechnology?
This planet is known as the ‘Red Planet’ due to its iron-rich soil
What is Mars?
The rate law expresses the relationship between reaction rate and this
What is reactant concentration?
In 2022, the university underwent a name change to this current title
What is University of Galway?
This high-energy molecule, along with NADPH, is produced during the light-dependent reactions and power/s the Calvin cycle
What is ATP?
This enzyme unwinds the DNA double helix to initiate replication
What is helicase?
This ancient civilisation built the city of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains
What is the Inca Empire?
The theoretical temperature at which all molecular motion stops is called this
What is absolute zero?
These are the best people in 2nd year Biotechnology
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