Cell-ebrities
I’m the organelle famous for producing most of the ATP in eukaryotic cells.
What is the mitochondrion?
In this sport Love is NOT all you need. At least not if you're trying to win.
What is Tennis?
Reaching Speeds of up to 240mph, this is the fastest animal on Earth.
What is the peregrine falcon?
There she goes again, arguing about the rules at game night. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
What are the order of operations? (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction)
This process produces three primary germ layers: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.
What is Gastrulation?
I’m the protein complex that reads mRNA and assembles amino acids into a polypeptide.
What is the ribosome?
In hockey, if a player accomplish this feat, they have just scored their 3rd goal of the game.
What is a Hat Trick
Covering an area of just 0.17 to 0.19 square miles, it is the smallest recognized country on Earth.
What is Vatican City?
The new-hire, showed up wearing an aggressively colorful suit and insists his name is unforgettable. His name was Roy if I remember correctly...... Roy G. Biv.
What are the Colors of the Rainbow? (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet)
This class of signaling molecules help establish positional information and can act in concentration gradient-dependent ways to influence cell fate.
What are Morphogens?
I modify, sort, and package proteins for delivery to their final destinations.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
An increasingly rare accomplishment: this baseball feat occurs when a pitcher prevents the opposing team from recording a single hit, though runners may still reach base through walks or errors.
What is a no-hitter?
Weighing upwards of 400,000 pounds and recording lengths as much as 100ft, it is universally accepted as the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth.
What is the Blue Whale? (it's tongue weighs as much as an adult elephant and it's heart weighs as much as a sedan)
My travel advice is simple: Never Eat Soggy Waffles. I learned that the hard way on a road trip.
What are directions on a compass? (North, East, South, and West)
During development, these hollow, cylindrical polymers help to drive cell division, tissue remodeling, polarization, and long-range intracellular transport.
What are Microtubules?
I’m the membrane-bound organelle where misfolded proteins can be degraded through a process involving ubiquitin.
What is the proteasome?
This number represents the only amount of points a team cannot have in American Football.
What is 1?
The longest river in the USA.
What is the Missouri River?
I don’t mean to brag, but it’s movie night and My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
What are the Planets? (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, RIP Pluto)
This is the process by which a progenitor produces one cell that leaves the cell cycle while, the other preserves the progenitor lineage.
What is asymmetric cell division?
I’m the cellular process in which double-membrane vesicles deliver cytoplasmic material to lysosomes for degradation and recycling.
What is autophagy?
For years, runners struggled to break this barrier, until Roger Bannister finally did it in 1954. Soon after, others began achieving what had once seemed impossible, suggesting the barrier was as much psychological as it was physical.
What is the 4-minute mile?
A nightmare for the U.S Office of Planetary Protection, these tiny earthly organisms can survive extreme conditions, including exposure to a vacuum, intense radiation, and severe dehydration.
What are tardigrades?
My realtor promised to show me some beautiful lakefront properties, so we spent the afternoon looking at "HOMES" near the shore.
What are the 5 Great Lakes? (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior: HAMES)
A condition where a single individual has two or more genetically distinct populations of cells arising from a single fertilized egg.
What is mosaicism?