Anatomy
This organ is primarily responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This city is the capital of Tennessee.
What is Nashville?
This organelle is responsible for modifying, sorting, and packaging proteins for transport within or outside of the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This is Vanderbilt's mascot.
What is the Commodore?
This vital sign measures the number of times your heart beats per minute.
What is heart rate/pulse?
This blood type is known as the universal red blood cell donor.
What is O negative?
This university is located in Knoxville and is Tennessee's flagship public university.
What is the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)?
A solution with a pH of 3 has this many times the hydrogen ion concentration of a solution with a pH of 5.
What is 100 times?
Vanderbilt has a satellite campus in this city.
What is New York City?
A patient has difficulty breathing, wheezing, and chest tightness caused by narrowing of the airways. This chronic condition is most likely responsible.
What is asthma?
This cranial nerve is responsible for vision.
What is the optic nerve (CN II)?
This famous Tennessee attraction is one of the most visited national parks in the United States.
What are the Great Smoky Mountains?
If a heterozygous individual for a recessive genetic disorder has a child with another heterozygous individual, this is the probability that their child will be affected.
What is 25%?
Vanderbilt was founded in this year.
What is 1873?
A patient suddenly develops facial drooping, difficulty speaking, and weakness on one side of the body. Recognizing these symptoms quickly is critical because the patient may be experiencing this:
What is a stroke?
This hormone, produced by pancreatic β-cells, lowers blood glucose.
What is insulin?
This Tennessee city is famously associated with Elvis Presley.
What is Memphis?
This quantity describes the amount of disorder or randomness in a system.
What is entropy?
Vanderbilt has had this number of chancellors since its founding.
What is 9?
A patient's blood pressure is dangerously low after significant blood loss. The body's immediate response includes increasing heart rate and constricting blood vessels. This is primarily mediated by this branch of the nervous system.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This part of the nephron is primarily responsible for the reabsorption of filtered glucose, amino acids, and most sodium and water.
What is the proximal convoluted tubule?
This national laboratory in Tennessee is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest science and energy research facilities and was originally established as part of the Manhattan Project.
What is Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
Enzymes speed up biochemical reactions by lowering this energy barrier, without changing the overall free-energy change of the reaction.
What is activation energy?
This building served as the "main building" when Vanderbilt was first founded.
What is Kirkland Hall?
A physician documents that a patient's condition is "idiopathic." This means the condition has this type of cause.
What is an unknown cause?