Numbers
The only even prime number
What is two?
The chemical formula for table salt
What is NaCl?
The eldest daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, Irene, received a Nobel Prize in this
What is chemistry?
DNA has this structure
What is a double helix?
GMO stands for this
Our current numerical system is based on this
What is the Hindu-Arabic numeral system?
Substances that control the rates of chemical reactions
What is a catalyst?
This woman developed a treatment for leprosy at 23 and became the first female chemistry professor at the University of Hawaii
Who is Alice Ball?
This regulatory system of the body controls hormone levels
What is the endocrine system?
REM in the context of sleep stands for this
What is rapid eye movement?
The smallest perfect number
What is six?
This is the most reactive element
What is fluorine?
Her research was the first to show the basic structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This structure accelerates the transmission of messages along neurons
What is the myelin sheath?
The father of computers
Who is Charles Babbage?
What is a billion?
The smallest unit of substance that retains the properties of that substance
What is a molecule?
She was the first black female neurosurgeon in the US, though she completed her bachelor's degree in Zoology
Who is Alexa Canady?
These allow us to process light and see color
What are cones?
A group of salamanders is called this
What is a maelstrom?
The number of seconds in a day
What is 86,400 seconds?
Magnesium is this type of element
What is an alkaline earth metal?
In the 1940s and 50s, Barbara McClintock's research on this plant revealed that genes can move on a chromosome
What is maize?
This is the largest solid internal organ in the human body
What is the liver?
The name of the first computer invented