Ecology and Psychology
Anatomy and Physiology
Formula(s) 1
Mendel etc.
Chemistry
100

The successor to Sigmund Freud, He expanded on Freud's theories and came up with his own theory of Psychosocial development, closer to the one we use today.

Who was Erik Erikson?

100

This artery is the largest in your body and is the beginning of the systemic oxygenated blood circuit.

What is the Aorta?

100

Everyone's favorite equation, PV = NRT

What is Ideal Gas Law?
100

The central dogma goes from DNA into what kind of RNA?

What is mRNA

100

This functional group



What is an Aldehyde?

200

Selection that favors neither extremes of a phenotype.

What is stabilizing selection?

200

These arteries, named after the way they crown the heart, feed oxygen to the heart itself. 

What are the Coronary Arteries?

200

This formula looks similar to the acronym MCAT, and talks about heat transfer.

What is the Specific Heat Capacity Equation?

200

This Ribozyme, found throughout the cytoplasm and studded on the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum, is made up of two sub-units and is best known for its role in protein translation.

What is a Ribosome?

200

A reaction that leads to an unsaturation with the loss of a leaving group.

What is an Elimination Reaction?

300

The evolution of two similar features independent of each other. Wings in birds and bats, for example.

What is Convergent Evolution?

300

This vein moves blood from the digestive system to the liver

What is the hepatic portal vein (or portal vein)?


300

This equation determines the allele frequency of a population.

What is the Hardy-Weinberg Equation? 

300

This method of DNA repair method removes damaged nucleotides and replaces them if they disrupt the helix.

What is Nucleotide Excision Repair?

300

An atom or molecule's loss of electrons is called this.

What is an Oxidation?

400

This is the dramatic loss of genetic variation and the subsequent repopulation with that stunted gene pool.

What is the Bottleneck Effect?

400

This neurotransmitter is released from efferent, post-ganglionic parasympathetic nerves.

What is Acetylcholine (ACh)?

400

The force generated by a spring is given by F = -kx. But, the potential energy of that spring is given by this equation.

What is E = 1/2kx2 ?


400

This form of DNA is compacted, and not easily transcribed because it's tightly wrapped around histones.

What is Heterochromatin?

400

This type of substitution reaction goes through a carbocation intermediate. 

What is SN1?

500

"Avoiding punishment" and "Self-interest" are two levels within which stage of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development?

What is the Pre-conventional Stage?

500

This is the anti-parallel flow of fluid which helps to establish incremental gradients for thermal exchange and nutrient absorption, important for heat retention.

What is Counter-Current Exchange?


500

This equation is often overlooked in introductory physics I & II, but still shows up on the MCAT regardless.

What is the Doppler Effect?

500

This phase of meiosis splits the ploidy of the germ cell from Diploid to Haploid.

What is Anaphase I

500

This substitution reaction undergoes an inversion of symmetry

What is an SN2 reaction?

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