Sticks & Bones
Outstanding Occupations
MCAT
Fight & Cure
Looking Back
100

The largest bone in the body

What is the femur?

100

A doctor that works with children and teenagers

What is a pediatrician?

100

Is there a guessing penalty on the MCAT?

What is no?

100

A chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood

What is diabetes?

100

The discovery of this led to scientists Crick and Watson's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962

What is DNA?

200

The largest organ in the human body

What is skin?

200
A doctor that diagnoses problems with the eye
What is an optometrist or ophthalmologist?
200

How long is the MCAT test without breaks

What is 7.5 hours?

200

The virus of the recent swine flu influenza

What is H1N1?

200
A famous artist who was one of the first to examine the human body by dissecting dead bodies and creating detailed drawings
What is Leonardo da Vinci?
300

The body system that contains the spinal cord

What is the nervous system?

300
A doctor that diagnoses problems with the foot
What is a podiatrist?
300

On average, how many hours do MCAT students prepare for the exam?

What is 200-300 hours?

300

An itchy infection from the varicella zoster virus that causes rashes and occurs usually once during your lifetime

What is chicken pox?

300
This group of people suffered drastically in population during the colonial period because they were not immune to European diseases, such as smallpox
What is the Native Americans?
400

The body system where lactic acid fermentation occurs

What is the muscular system?

400
Doctor that diagnoses problems with the large intestine
What is a gastroenterologist?
400

The average MCAT score

What is 500?

400

A disorder passed down through families in which nerve cells in the brain degenerate and is caused by the extra CAG gene on chromosome #4

What is Huntington's disease? FUN FACT: Thirteen from the show House has this Huntington's.

400
The medicine Alexander Fleming found in 1928 while conducting experiments with mold and bacteria
What is penicillin?
500

The four tissues in the human body

What are muscle, nervous, epithelial, connective?

500

A doctor that diagnoses problems with the bladder

What is an urologist?

500

Name at least 6 out of 8 topics on the MCAT

What is Biology, Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry, Physics, Biochemistry, Psychology, Sociology & Verbal/CARS?

500

A chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that may affect the skin, joints, kidneys, and other organs, and develops arthritis

What is systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)/lupus?

500
Known as the Nation's Medical Research Agency, this federal institution was founded in 1887
What is the National Institute of Health (NIH)?
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