This enzyme repairs the frayed ends of chromosomes in egg and sperm cells, ensuring that the next generation starts life with full-legnth telomeres.
What is telomerase?
100
This was the first completely dominant human genetic disease discovered.
What is Huntington's Disease?
100
This American evolutionary theorist wrote an article in 1896 investigating the effects of learning via experience versus instinct.
Who is James Mark Baldwin?
100
These viruses can cause cancer.
What are oncoviruses?
100
This side-effect is associated with high testosterone levels.
What is aggression?
200
This macromolecule serves as a template from which telomerase rebuilds telomeres, leading some scientists to believe that telomerase shares its long history.
What is RNA?
200
When this "word" is repeated more than 35 times in a gene, Huntington's chorea can result.
What is CAG?
200
This protein, activated by cyclic AMP, alters synapses to enable learning via experience.
What is CREB?
200
These genes are responsible for shutting down excessive cell proliferation.
What are tumour suppressor genes?
200
This necessary organic compound serves as the basis of five hormones called steroids that are responsible for gene regulation.
What is cholesterol?
300
This telomere sequence can be found at the end of every chromosome.
What is TTAGGG?
300
This folk singer was killed by Huntington's Disease.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
300
In this mutant fruit fly, alpha-integrins tighten synapses and improve memory.
What is volado?
300
This tumour suppressor gene instructs a cell to commit suicide if the cell turns cancerous.
What is TP53?
300
This hormone is synonymous with stress.
What is cortisol?
400
This gene on Chromosome 14 produces telomerase.
What is TEP1?
400
This is located on the short arm of Chromosome 4.
What is the gene for Huntington's disease?
400
These "three-dimensional shaped" neurons found in the hippocampus help create an associative memory.
What are pyrimidal neurons?
400
David Lane developed this as a possible cure for cancer following the study of his arm's exposure to cancer-causing radiation.
What is P53?
400
An increase in the level of this hormone directly relates to a decrease in the body's white blood cell count.
What is testosterone?
500
These atoms with unpaired electrons are created by oxygen reactions in the body and cause telomeres to shorten, since the human body lacks the ability to repair the damage they cause.
What are free radicals?
500
These diseases result from expanded "word repeats."
What are polyglutamine diseases?
500
This is the part of the hippocampus in which associative memories are created.
What is the Ammon's horn?
500
This is the name of the process involving the growth of blood vessels that gave cancer its Greek name.
What is angiogenesis?
500
This is the name for the study of the physical and psychological components of disease.