Neuroscience
Extreme personality changes in Phineas Gage were induced due to the physical trauma to this brain structure.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This compound in jalapeños gives them a spicy sensation.
What is capsaicin?
This flightless bird, native to New Zealand, lays eggs the size of a cantaloupe.
What is a kiwi?
Octopuses have this number of hearts.
What is three?
A system for identifying the hazards of materials during emergencies, including four colored sections with a number rating from 0-4.
What is the NFPA 704?
The pathology of this disease is characterised by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, especially the hippocampus and amygdala.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
In 2006, an outbreak of this microorganism was linked to contaminated lettuce served in the chain’s restaurants across multiple states.
What is E. coli?
All modern birds belong to this clade, characterized by a wishbone and feathers.
This small marine creature can survive being frozen and thawed multiple times.
What is a tardigrade?
In gel electrophoresis, DNA, RNA, or proteins are sorted by size and charge by applying an electric field across a matrix of this composition.
What is agarose or polyacrylamide?
In the one sense pathway that bypasses the thalamus, neurons directly project onto this structure, which has connections to the piriform cortex, amygdala, and entorhinal cortex.
What is the olfactory bulb?
This chemical process preserves Taco Bell’s hot sauce and prevents spoilage.
What is pasteurisation?
This large, flightless Australian bird can run up to 50 km/h.
What is an emu?
This particle, theorized in 1930 and discovered in 1956, interacts very weakly with matter.
What is a neutrino?
False discovery rate is a statistical correction that controls the expected proportion of this test result among rejected hypotheses in high-throughput data.
What is a false positive?
Wilder Penfield’s work using electrical stimulation of the brains of awake patients allowed for the development of this map of the postcentral gyrus, where larger areas indicate body parts with more sensory receptors.
What is a sensory homunculus?
A fast-talking mascot of this animal appeared in commercials from 1997 and 2000, also appearing in Legally Blonde 2.
What is a chihuahua?
This organ in birds is specialized for grinding food, often with the help of small stones.
What is a gizzard?
This eccentric U.S. President kept an alligator in the White House.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
This type of laboratory equipment generates a continuous stream of a flammable gas and is often used to sterilise pieces of equipment or produce an updraft that forces airborne contaminants away from the working area.
What is a Bunsen Burner?
Named for its resemblance to the Japanese video game character, this protein or signalling pathway is critical in limb patterning and digit formation.
What is Sonic hedgehog?
This common preservative in fast food sauces slows down oxidation and microbial activity.
What is sodium benzoate?
The unique fused bone in a bird’s pelvis that supports strong flight muscles is called this.
What is the synsacrum?
This organism can survive being decapitated for several days.
What is a cockroach?
RNA is converted to complementary DNA using reverse transcriptase, followed by quantitative PCR to measure the amount of specific cDNA targets using fluorescent dye in this molecular biology technique.
What is qRT-PCR?