Biology
This is another name for red blood cells.
What is an erythrocyte?
Which one of these elements is NOT named after a place? Californium, Berkelium, Polonium, Seaborgium.
What is Seaborgium?
Named after American chemist Glen T. Seaborg
This element has the chemical symbol Pb.
What is lead?
What is child birth, blood clotting, the menstrual cycle, digestion, nerve signaling?
A pulmonologist looks at what type of bodily system?
The respiratory system
The Augustinian friar in the Austrian Empire that is widely credited as the founder of genetics.
Gregor Mendel
The only metal that is in liquid form at room temperature.
What is mercury?
Sublimation describes
What is the transition from solid to gas without passing through the liquid phase?
The functional unit of the kidneys
What is a nephron?
The name of the white outer layer of the eyeball
What is the sclera?
The total number of chromosomes in the human body.
What is 46?
This element is deadly in its inorganic form and was often times used as a poison in the past. It is a pnictogen.
What is Arsenic?
What is Fool's Gold?
The bones that make up your spine are called.
What is Vertebrae?
This textbook, being published in 1858, performed dissections on unclaimed corpses. Its name was later used for this medical tv drama.
What is Gray's Anatomy?
Robert Hooke was the first person to see cells when he examined this kind of plant tissue under a microscope.
What is cork?
Strontium got its name from:
A. The village in Scotland where it was discovered.
B. The last name of the scientist that discovered it.
C. The scientist's assistant's dog.
D. It was decided by the IUPAC and has no meaning.
A, the village in Scotland where it was discovered. The village was called Strontian.
The longest known protein, Titin, has the longest IUPAC name. It has:
A. ~180 letters
B. ~1,800 Letters
C. ~18,600 Letters
D. ~86,000 Letters
E. ~189,000 Letters
What is E. ~189,000 Letters?
The layers of the skin
What is the epidermis and the dermis?
A drug derived from the poppy plant.
What is Opium, Morphine, Heroin, Codeine, And Papaverine?
The organelle found in most eukaryotic cells is named after an Italian physician with the first name Camillo who discovered it in 1897.
Hint: We learned about him in Physiology!
Who is Camillo Golgi?
The first element to be discovered with a known date and discoverer.
What is phosphorus?
The rarest element on earth, with less than an estimated 30 grams present at any given time.
Hint: Its in either Group 17 or 18.
What is astatine?
Psilocybin, the hallucinogenic component of certain mushroom species, is structurally similar to this common neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
On which part of the body is an angioplasty performed?
Blood vessels