Human Anatomy
How many bones are in the adult (intact) human body?
206
Isaac Newton
University of Calgary Mascot (I need the name!!)
Rex the Dinosaur
What tool is used to measure small volumes of liquid?
Pipette
Octopus have 3 hearts and blue blood. What makes the blood blue?
Copper in the blood (chelates with a protein called hemocyanin)
What part of the brain controls memory?
the Hippocampus
Who developed the theory of general relativity?
Albert Einstein
Before becoming independent, what was the University of Calgary known as?
University of Alberta, Calgary
What do you call a group that has not been given any treatment (100) and why is this group necessary (100)
Control Group; It establishes a baseline that we can compare experimental groups with to measure change in results
Which planet in our solar system has a day that is longer than its year?
Venus
What is the name of the process where your body maintains a stable internal temperature an environment?
Homeostasis
Who is the "Father of Genetics"
Gregor Mendel
Name of the training facility built during the 1988 Winter Olympics?
(Hint: Its still used today!)
Olympic Oval
Why should you add acid to water and NEVER water to acid when making dilutions?
Adding water to acid causes a violent exothermic reaction - acid splatters outwards.
Adding acid to water lets the heat dissipate safely
A single bolt of lightning is roughly how many times hotter than the surface of the sun?
5X!
What is the smallest bone in the human body? Name and location for full points!
Stapes, found in the middle ear
Who discovered the atomic nucleus
HINT: Gold Foil Experiment
Ernest Rutherford
University of Calgary required all of you to sign a consent form called YPAL Consent Form. What does YPAL Stand for?
Young Persons Accessing Laboratories
Lab equipment used to separate substances based on density by spinning them at high speed
Centrifuge
What is the only food that never spoils?
Honey! We've found edible honey in 3000 year old Egyptian tombs
What is the hardest substance in the human body?
Tooth Enamel
Whose X-Ray Diffraction Images were used to solve the DNA's double helix structure?
Rosalind Franklin
What year was the University of Calgary Founded as an independent institution?
1966
Technique that uses a gel matrix and electric current to separate DNA fragments by size
Gel electrophoresis
A bacteria called Helicobacter pylori causes stomach ulcers. How was this fact discovered?
Australian microbiologist Barry Marshall was VERY SURE that H. pylori caused stomach ulcers. He couldn't get the ethics approval to test this though. So he swallowed H. pylori cocktail, waited a few days, took pictures of stomach ulcers with endoscope, and ate antibiotics to treat himself... and got a Nobel Prize...