The year BC's 10-Year Cancer Action Plan was released.
When is 2023?
What is a beaker?
The largest blood vessel in the body.
What is the aorta?
The doctor and researcher who launched the pilot project for BC's (and Canada's) first at-home HPV self-screening program.
Dr. Gina Ogilvie
The process in which a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
The six regional health authorities in BC.
What are Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health, PHSA, and Vancouver Coastal Health?
What is a fume hood?
The liquid portion of blood that is yellow-ish.
What is plasma?
Known for their Theory of Relativity, this individual won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 for their services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
Albert Einstein
The process by which a substance moves from an area of higher concentration to lower concentration until a state of equal concentration.
What is diffusion?
The Laboratory Services Act came into effect on this date.
When is October 1, 2015?
What is an emergency eye wash station?
The smallest blood vessels in the body are called this.
What are capillaries?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, for her work on radioactivity in 1903.
Who is Marie Curie?
The number of chromosomes in each cell in the human body.
What are 46 chromosomes (23 pairs)?
The current Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Health.
Who is Cynthia Johansen?
What are Erlenmeyer Flasks?
The rarest blood type (of the 8 common blood types).
What is AB-?
Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 for the discovery of penicillin.
The four fundamental states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
What are (one of the following):
Repeat Diagnostics
Novavita Laboratory
BC Neuroimmunology Laboratory
What is a graduated cylinder?
The two main types of lymphocytes - the types of white blood cells involved in an immune response.
What are B cells and T cells? (Will also accept natural killer cells)
In recognition of their role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, this individual won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993.
Who is Kary B. Mullis?
During this process, a cell duplicates all of its contents and splits to form two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?