Rutgers/SEBS Lore
Lions, Tigers, and Bugs, Oh My!
Med's Cool
(In and) Out of This World
In Your Element
100
This is what the acronym "SGC" stands for.
What is the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Governing Council?
100
Between the three types of diets an animal can have, this best describes a horse's diet.
What is an herbivore diet?
100
This organ is the human body's largest in size.
What is the skin?
100
This organelle contains the pigment that gives many plants their signature green color.
What is the chloroplast?
100
The set-up seen here shows this common chemistry laboratory technique.
What is a titration?
200
Before being named the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) in 2007, the school had this name.
What is Cook College?
200
With a name that sounds similar to the Dr. Seuss character that speaks for the trees, this body part on an insect is where its legs and wings are attached.
What is the thorax?
200
This blood type is considered the universal donor.
What is O-?
200
The next time this event will be visible from the continental United States will be in August of 2044.
What is a total solar eclipse?
200
This is name of the process in which the nuclei of two atoms come together to form one nucleus.
What is fusion?
300
This Rutgers-bred fruit was introduced in 1934 and remained the dominant commercial variety for decades.
What is the Rutgers tomato?
300
She was the first living animal to be cloned by scientists in the 1990s.
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
300
New Jersey's state microbe was discovered at Rutgers, and it produces this product used in modern medicine to fight infections.
What is streptomycin (antibiotic)?
300
Earth's crust and upper layer of the mantle combine to create this layer.
What is the lithosphere?
300
This element has a one-letter chemical symbol that you would not want to receive as a text.
Potassium
400
Although they're never around when you need them, this is the number of bus routes that service Cook/Douglass.
What is 4?
400
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do in fact take part in this excretory process.
What is sweating?
400
This medical term is used to describe the yellowing of the skin and mucosal membranes.
What is icteric/jaundice?
400
Imaginary geographic lines around the Earth include the equator & these 2 “tropics."
What are Cancer and Capricorn?
400
Carbon dating utilizes the radioactivity of C-14, and as an isotope of C-12, it has two more of these subatomic particles.
What are neutrons?
500
This building on Lipman Drive is the home of the SEBS administration offices.
What is Martin Hall?
500
This organism is currently known as the smallest animal in the world, having eight limbs and the ability to live in extreme environments.
What is a tardigrade/water bear/moss piglet?
500
This hormone that is 29 amino acids long is as equally important as its counterpart, insulin.
What is glucagon?
500
Although many planets in our solar system have moons, these two planets do not.
What are Mercury and Venus?
500
When combined, these chemical symbols for the two elements that make up the Earth's core sound like a kitchen utensil.
What are Ni and Fe?