Famous Experiments
1928 experiment by Alexander Fleming led to a groundbreaking discovery when mold contaminated his bacterial cultures leading to the invention of this
What is penicillin?
This piece of PPE is essential for protecting your eyes from chemical splashes and broken glass in the lab.
What are Safety Glasses?
This instrument, vital in microbiology, sterilizes equipment by using high-pressure saturated steam
What is an autoclave?
This term refers to the variety of different types of life found on Earth and the natural patterns it forms.
What is biodiversity?
A bridge in this city is famously known for being the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under a plane.
What is Cambridge?
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick used data from Rosalind Franklin's X-Ray crystallography to propose the structure of this vital biological molecule
What is DNA?
This document has been developed for each BlueRock location and specifies planning, safety, and intervention measures should an emergency arise
What is the EAP (Emergency Action Plan)?
This company produces sensors used in BlueRock laboratories for active environmental monitoring
What is Vaisala?
This biological classification ranks above species and below family and is often used to group closely related organisms.
What is a genus?
The CN tower held the record for the world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years in this city.
What is Toronto?
In the early 20th century, Ernest Rutherford conducted an experiment that led to the discovery of this central part of an atom?
What is the nucleus?
This Japanese term for "actual place" commonly used for shop floors or any pace where value-creating work occurs provides an inside look into the frontline of productivity.
What is Gemba?
Used for weighing substances accurately, this instrument can measure the mass of objects up to two decimal places in grams
What is an analytical balance?
This term describes a virus that specifically infects and replicates within bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
This city held the worlds first museum dedicated solely to contemporary art.
Where is New York City?
In 1984, Kary Mullis developed this revolutionary technique, which allows for the amplification of specific DNA sequences, transforming fields from molecular biology to forensic science
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)?
This acronym stands for a standard approach in handling potentially infectious materials to prevent contamination and spread of infections.
What is BSL (Biosafety Level) practices?
Essential in analytical labs, this machine separates mixtures into their components based on their movement through a stationary phase.
What is a chromatograph or chromatography?
This person proposed the scientific principle explaining how characteristics are passed from one generation to the next.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The David Dunlap observatory is the one of the oldest university-based observatories located in this city.
What is Toronto?
The Millikan oil drop experiment, conducted in 1909, measured the charge of this fundamental particle.
What is the electron?
This protocol, often abbreviated as LOTO, is a safety measure used to ensure that dangerous machines are properly shut off and used prior to completion of maintenance or repair work
What is Lockout-Tagout?
Named after a German physicist, this apparatus is used to measure the amount of heat absorbed or released during a chemical reaction.
What is a calorimeter?
This term refers to the transfer of genetic material from one bacterial cell to another through direct contact.
What is conjugation?
Completed in 1883, this city had the worlds first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed.
What is New York City?