Science 1
These were studied by Barbara McClintock to show chromosome exchange.
What are corn plants?
The average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere today (in parts per million).
What is greater than 400ppm? (295)
This is the biggest piece of a scientific equipment.
What is the CERN Large Hadron Collider? (268)
Weather, traffic, growth of galaxies, and the stock market were modeled using this.
What is chaos theory? (297)
Electrodes were included in the Urey-Miller experiment apparatus to mimic this.
What is lightning? (275)
He discovered the electron.
Who is JJ Thompson? (304)
This is the oxygen carrying substance in blood.
What is hemoglobin? (280)
This means living together and within.
What is endosymbiosis? (300)
This Chicago-born scientist entered the University of Chicago at age 15 and helped discover DNA.
Who is James Watson? (278)
This was Ernest Rutherford's model of an atom.
What is a small nucleus of protons and neutrons with orbiting electrons? (304)
He coined the term 'artificial intelligence'.
Who is John McCarthy? (288)
Quarks and leptons are 2 families of bosons or fermions.
What are 2 families of fermions? (307)
This is significant critique of the many-worlds hypothesis.
What is it is untestable? (285)
These are the two states of a bit.
What are 0 and 1? (317)
This is the time of day when the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is typically the lowest.
What is midafternoon? (295)
Fractional dimensions can be thought of as this.
What is roughness measure? (316)
MENACE was capable of this.
What is learning from experience? (289-90)
This is the fundamental unit of information in quantum computing.
What is a qubit? (317)
Swiss astronomers Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered this Jupiter size planet orbiting a sun-like star ~ 51 light years from earth.
What is 51 Pegasi B? (327)
The rapid spread of antibiotic resistance through a bacteria population is an example of this.
What is horizontal gene transfer? (319)