Genetics
Plants/
Ecology
Ecology
Gross Facts
Know Your Colgate Biology
Science Careers
100
Diagram that shows predicted genomic results of random fertilization
What is a Punnett Square?
100
Maximum population size of a species an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?
100
Stool Samples
What is a medical diagnostic technique (collection) used so that infections caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites can be identified through analysis?
100
This building finished its renovations and add-on in 2024
What is Olin hall?
100
Total Score: 528
What is the maximum score you can get for the MCAT?
200
When heterozygous individual has an intermediate phenotype
What is incomplete dominance?
200
The pigment that makes plants appear green?
What is chlorophyll?
200
This bacteria can cause diarrhea, urinary tract infections (UTIs), pneumonia, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), Pneumonia, Meningitis, Cholecystitis in humans
What is E. coli?
200
This is the chair for the biology department
Who is Professor Geoff Holms?
200
Purpose of research
What is the advancement of knowledge by systematically gathering and analyzing information to generate new knowledge, expand understanding of a topic, and contribute to a body of knowledge by testing hypotheses, exploring phenomena, and drawing conclusions based on collected data?
300
Genetic recombination occurs through this process
What is crossing over?
300
The name of a species which other species in an ecosystem largely depend on (its removal would change the environment drastically)?
What is a keystone species?
300
1918 Flu Death Toll Worldwide
What is (about) 50 million?
300
This is the number of majors listed under the Biology department
What are Molecular Biology, Biology, Environmental Biology, Natural sciences with a concentration in marine science - freshwater science?
300
A person who studies fish
What is Ichthyologist?
400
Blood type is an example of these two genetic phenomena
What are codominance and multiple alleles?
400
Species use resources differently to avoid competition and coexist, increases biodiversity by allowing more than one species access to a limited resource?
What is Niche Partitioning?
400
The amount of skin cells a human typically sheds per year in weight
What is 1.5 pounds?
400
These are the biology courses listed for this semester
What are Bio 101, Bio 181/Lab, Bio 182/Lab, Evolution/Lab, Cell Biology/Lab, Human Anatomy & Physiology/Lab, Invertebrate Zoology/Lab, Epidemiology, Microbiology/Lab, Vertebrate Physiology/Lab, Biostatistics/Lab, Conservation Biology, Marine Biology, Immunology, Bio of Stem Cells/Lab, Global Health Epidemiology, Animal Systematics, Adaptation to Environment, and Advanced Aquatic Ecology (19)?
400
Scientists conducting research with human participants must first receive approval from this institutional body to ensure ethical standards are met
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
500
Inheritance pattern of color blindness
What is x-linked recessive?
500
Structural Differences between a plant cell and an Animal cell?
What is Animals cell have centrioles, centrosomes, and lysosomes, and Plant cells have cell wall, chloroplasts, plasmodesmata, plastids, large central vacuole?
500
What is Contact Dermatitis?
500
This biology professor is listed as the University Marshal
Who is Professor Jason Meyers?
500
Name the occupation: designing and building new biological parts, devices, and systems, or redesigning existing biological systems for specific purpose
What is a Synthetic Biologist?