Physics
A vector quantity with both magnitude and direction.
What is velocity?
The negatively charged component of an atom.
What is an Electron?
The cellular organelle that modifies and sorts proteins and lipids prior to them being sent to their final destinations.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A German physicist who developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The rate of an electron flow.
What is a current?
A chemical substance that releases hydrogen ions (has a pH below 7).
What is an Acid?
The type of mutation where one nucleotide base is directly replaced with another.
What is a point mutation?
One of the most well known gene editing tools used to target specific DNA sequences and make precise edits to the genome.
What is CRISPR?
A Polish scientist who discovered radium and died of radiation poisoning.
Who is Marie Curie?
The property of physics that is the spreading out bending of waves as they pass either around an obstacle or through a narrow opening.
What is diffraction?
A type of chemical reaction that can occur without needing any more energy except for the initial input.
What is a spontaneous chemical reaction?
Chemical messengers sent throughout the body.
What are hormones?
Light travels in a straight line at a constant speed of 300,000 m/s. What is it's acceleration?
What is 0 m/s/s?
A scientist whose X-ray diffraction imaging of DNA led to a breakthrough for the understanding of DNA’s structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The point at which an object will collapse into a black hole.
What is the Schwarzschild radius?
The weakest of the intermolecular forces.
What are London Dispersion forces?
A segment of bacterial DNA that is made up of genes, a promoter and an operator.
What is an operon?
The process of a gas turning into a solid without becoming a liquid first.
What is Deposition?
The inventor of the periodic table.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
The smallest meaningful unit of length in the universe
What is Planck length?
An acid with two equivalence points on its titration curve.
What is diprotic acid titration?
The name of the vascular tissue in plants that is responsible for the transportation of water from the roots to the rest of the plant.
What is a xylem?
Property of sound waves that causes them to become higher pitched when approaching you and lower pitched when moving away from you.
What is the doppler effect?
A Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and has a series of awards named after him.
Who is Alfred Nobel?