"Bi"ology
A Legal Category
Back to the Basics
"X", "Y", and "Z"
Scientific Personalities
100
This is a distinctive anatomical feature of a duck or pelican.
What is a Bill?
100
This man’s first law of planetary motion states that planets orbit in ellipses.
What is Johannes Kepler?
100
“State the problem” is the first step in this, a common subject of classroom posters.
What is the Scientific Method?
100
This now-indispensable medical technology won Wilhelm Roentgen the first Nobel Prize for Physics.
What is the X-ray?
100
This Canadian scientist first developed insulin along with Dr. Charles Best.
Who is Frederick Banting?
200
This is the yellow substance produced by the liver and secreted by the gall bladder.
What is Bile?
200
Avogadro’s Law states that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and the same this quantity, have equal number of molecules.
What is Pressure?
200
The fundamental theorem of calculus states that these are the opposite of integrals.
What are Derivatives?
200
The first appearance of this mathematical concept was in ancient India.
What is Zero?
200
After discovering the principle of displacement, this Greek supposed shouted “Eureka!”
Who is Archimedes?
300
This ion, also known as hydrogen carbonate, is used as a buffer in human blood.
What is Bicarbonate?
300
According to the second law of thermodynamics, this value for a pure substance is 0 at 0 degrees Kelvin.
What is Entropy?
300
The Greek word “atom” has this original meaning relating to it being the smallest unit of matter.
What is Indivisible?
300
This animal belongs to the genus equus, and had a now-extinct relative called the quagga.
What is the Zebra?
300
This microbiologist developed a procedure now used in the production of milk and beer.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
This is the two term naming system in which the first term is the genus and the second the epithet.
What is Binomial nomenclature?
400
Snell’s Law relates to this optical phenomenon, observed when the speed of light changes when moving between substances.
What is Refraction?
400
This is the simplest synthetic element, with atomic number 43.
What is Technetium?
400
This is a type of concentrated uranium powder, noted for its colour.
What is Yellowcake?
400
This German, the namesake of a character on Breaking Bad, developed an eponymous Uncertainty Principle.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
500
This optical device wa invented by Dr. Garth Webb to prevent cataracts.
What is the Bionic lens?
500
Graham’s Law inversely proportions the rate of this phenomenon, similar to osmosis, to the square root of molecular mass.
What is Diffusion (or effusion)
500
An influential theory of physics replaces 1-D point-like particles with these two 2-D objects.
What are Strings?
500
This is the shorter of the two elements (that fit this category) named after the Swedish town of Ytterby.
What is Yttrium?
500
This Scot, in 1831, discovered the genetic material bearer in cells.
Who is Robert Brown?
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