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100

This molecule carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome

What is mRNA?

100

This is the name of McMaster's Stadium.

What is Ron Joyce Stadium?

100

This term refers to the money a company earns after deducting its expenses.

What is profit?

100

This is the full form of the BDC acronym.

What is Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization?

100

This scale measures the spiciness of chilli peppers.

What is the Scoville scale?

200

This type of bond connects amino acids in a protein.

What are Peptide Bonds?

200

This is the name of McMaster’s mascot.

What is Marty the Marauder?

200

This financial document shows a company’s revenues and expenses over a specific period.

What is an income statement?

200

This is the Director of BDC.

Who is Sara Andres?

200

This ocean is the largest and covers more area than all the continents combined.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

300

In a dihybrid cross with independent assortment, ___ is the typical phenotypic ratio among offspring.

What is 9:3:3:1

300

One-fifth of ___ brain is held at the McMaster brain bank

Who is Albert Einstein?

300

This type of trade barrier imposes a tax on imported goods.

What is a tariff?

300

This is the year BDC was launched.

What is 2015?

300

This flightless bird native to New Zealand is named after the sound of its call.

What is the kiwi?

400

This molecular biology tool uses enzymes that cut DNA at specific sequences.

What are restriction enzymes?

400

McMaster University was founded in this year.

What is 1887?

400

This phrase describes a situation where a company offers products at a loss to attract customers, hoping to generate future profits.

What is a loss leader strategy?

400

This is the number of units of the mandatory BDC senior research thesis.

What is 15 units

400

This country was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1893.

What is New Zealand?

500

This vesicular trafficking pathway moves materials from the Golgi apparatus back to the ER.

What is the retrograde transport pathway

500

This is the area of McMaster in acres.
(To nearest 10)

What is 300 acres?

500

This type of business merger occurs between companies that operate at different stages of the production process.

What is a vertical merger?

500

This is the month that MBDC applications are usually due.

What is January?

500

In 1518, a “dancing plague” broke out in this European country.

What is France?

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