Rock Anthems
Released in 1975, this operatic masterpiece by Queen features no chorus but includes iconic sections of hard rock, balladry, and operatic vocal layering.
What is "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
Holy Cross competes in Division I athletics as a member of this academic and athletic conference alongside schools like Army, Navy, and Lehigh.
What is the Patriot League?
This famous structural model proposed by Watson and Crick based on Rosalind Franklin’s work described DNA as this twisted, two-stranded geometric shape
What is a double helix?
Serving as the body's primary line of defense against infection, it is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
Author of Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man
Who is Charles Darwin?
This legendary Led Zeppelin track from their 1971 fourth album features a famous acoustic opening that builds into an electric guitar solo by Jimmy Page.
What is "Stairway to Heaven"?
In 1947, a Holy Cross basketball team led by future NBA legend Bob Cousy won this prestigious national tournament.
What is the NCAA Tournament (or national championship)?
This organelle uses a proton gradient to generate most of the cell's supply of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) .
What is the mitochondria?
This is the largest of all Orders, with about 400,00 described species (and estimates of up to 0.9 - 2.1 million species!), making-up ~ 25% of all know animal species
What is the Coleoptera (Beetles)?
These are the non-living factors or components of an environment that affect living organisms.
What are abiotic factors/components?
This Australian rock band told the story of a hard-rocking lifestyle on the road in their 1975 anthem, stating it’s a long way to the top if you want to do this.
What is rock 'n' roll?
In 1952, Holy Cross won the College World Series in this sport, making it the only school from New England to ever win the national title.
What is baseball?
A common type of receptor for signaling pathways that contains 7 transmembrane regions?
What is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)?
While most mammals give birth to live young, this Australian creature and the echidna are the only two mammals that lay eggs.
What is the platypus?
The mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become physically isolated from each other.
What is allopatric speciation?
This 1977 Pink Floyd concept album, heavily inspired by George Orwell's political fable, features tracks like "Pigs on the Wing" and "Sheep."
What is Animals?
In 1988, Glenn Tropf of Holy Cross set an NCAA single-season record by making 63.4% of these specific "long shots".
What are three-pointers?
These hollow cytoskeletal filaments are instrumental in mitosis/meiosis and cellular trafficking
What are microtubules?
This is the predominant type of lifecycle in plants and algae, with gametophytes and sporophytes.
What is alternation of generations?
A species that maintains the organization and structure of an entire community due to the disproportionately large number of connections to other species in the food-web
What is a keystone species?
Meat Loaf teamed up with composer Jim Steinman for this operatic 1977 debut album, which became one of the best-selling records of all time.
What is Bat Out of Hell?
The annual football rivalry game between Holy Cross and this prominent Boston-area Jesuit school is known as the Jesuit Bowl.
What is Boston College?
During DNA replication, this new DNA strand is synthesized continuously.
What is the leading strand?
Amoebocytes from the hemolymph of this living fossil contain a chemical commonly used by the biomedical industry to detect bacterial endotoxins.
What is the Horseshoe Crab?
A phylogenetic grouping that contains a common ancestor and some, but not all, of its descendants
What is a paraphyletic group/paraphyly?