Michigan State University
MSU is in this athletic conference.
What is Big Ten?
Our differentiated cells are not randomly distributed. Rather, they are organized into intricate tissues and organs. This creation of ordered form is known as this.
What is morphogenesis?
Waxy coating that prevents water loss.
What is the cuticle?
Some of the earliest evidence of cancer is found in human mummies in ancient Egypt and is indicative of this kind of cancer.
What is bone cancer or osteosarcoma?
The number of categories of Nobel prizes given out annually.
What is 6? (physics, chemistry, physiology/ medicine, literature, peace, and economic sciences)
MSU was the first institution of higher learning in the United States to teach this subject.
What is Scientific Agriculture?
The bottom hemisphere of an embryo is known as this.
What is the vegetal pole?
The vascular tissue that transports sugar.
What is the phloem?
An estimated 297,790 women and 2,800 men will be diagnosed with this form of cancer, which makes it the most common cancer diagnosis.
What is breast cancer?
Jennifer Doudna And Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.
What is CRSPR/ Cas9 genetic scissors?
MSU was founded on this date (Month/Year).
What is February 12, 1855?
This allows spermatozoa to penetrate the zona pellucida and fuse with the oocyte membrane.
What is the acrosome reaction?
The hormone that causes plants to bend towards light.
What is auxin?
The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who is considered the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates used these terms to describe non-ulcer forming and ulcer-forming tumors.
What are carcinos and carcinoma?
The location in which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually.
Where is Stockholm, Sweden?
MSU’s campus is one of the biggest and greenest in the nation, sitting at this many acres (approximations will be accepted).
What is 5,200 acres?
They are large spheric diploid cells that are formed in the early stages of embryonic development and are precursors of the oogonia and spermatogonia.
What are primordial germ cells?
The first plant to have its full genome sequenced in 2000.
What is Arabidopsis (thaliana)?
Since late 2016, only this HPV vaccine is distributed in the United States. This vaccine protects against nine HPV types (6, 11, 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58) and has the potential to prevent more than 90% of HPV-attributable cancers.
What is Gardasil-9 (9vHPV)?
The organization which has won the most Nobel prizes.
What’s the International Committee of Red Cross? (Nobel Peace prize 1917, 1944, 1963)
MSU became the nation’s premier land-grant university and the prototype for the entire land-grant system created when President Abraham Lincoln signed the this Act in 1862.
What is the Morrill Act?
Three layers of cells that will make up different organ systems are the endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm. The endoderm forms these tissue types. (Give at least 2).
What is the epithelial lining of the digestive tract, stomach, colon, liver, bladder, and pancreas?
Colourless plastids that help in the storage of food compounds like starch, proteins or fats.
What are Leucoplasts?
A systemic disorder caused by cancer cells that is independent of their location. For example, a cancer cell might release a compound that is toxic to the body.
What is Paraneoplastic Syndrome?
Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Who are Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman?