Under the Microscope
This type of cell lacks a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
The process of rust forming on iron is an example of this type of reaction
What is oxidation?
This term describes the flow of positive charges in a conductor or circuit.
What is current?
This dense remnant of a massive star’s core, with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape, is called this.
What is a black hole?
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
The network of protein fibers that gives cells shape and support.
What is the cytoskeleton?
This orbital is involved in bond-breaking reactions where electrons from the highest occupied molecular orbital is transferred to this orbital.
What is LUMO (Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital)?
What is mass-to-charge ratio?
This dwarf planet, once considered the ninth planet in the Solar System, was reclassified in 2006.
What is Pluto?
This type of sound wave is utilized in echolocation to help bats determine the position of their prey.
What is ultrasonic sound waves (or ultrasound)?
These microorganisms are known for their ability to survive in extreme environments like hot springs and salty lakes.
What are archaea?
A neutral carbon with a pair of lone-pair electrons.
What is a carbene?
The radiation emitted by an object which absorbs all frequencies of light and emits radiation depending on its temperature.
What is blackbody radiation?
This NASA rover, launched in 2020, is currently exploring the surface of Mars in search of signs of ancient life.
What is Perseverance?
In biology, the rhythmic wave-like electrical signals that travel along the axon of a neuron are known as these.
What are action potentials?
These bacteria can switch between aerobic and anaerobic respiration depending on oxygen availability.
What are facultative anaerobes?
This instrumentation method is often used to determine the 3D structure and arrangement of atoms in a lattice
What is X-ray Crystallography?
Electrons experience this type of force while passing through both an electric field and a magnetic field.
What is Lorentz force?
The largest moon of Saturn, known for its thick nitrogen atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane, is called this.
What is Titan?
This type of luminescence is responsible for glow-in-the-dark effects, where the material absorbs light and re-emits the light after a certain time period
What is phosphorescence?
The term for when a single gene influences multiple traits.
What is pleiotropy?
The model which accounts for the non-ideal behavior of gases, including the actual volume/size of the gas particles as well as the intermolecular forces between them
What is the Van der Waals model/equation?
Quasi-particles which represents the vibrational mode of the material excited under a LASER; commonly utilized in Raman scattering
What are phonons?
This galaxy is the closest to the Milky Way and is expected to collide with it in about 4 billion years.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This type of star emits regular bursts of electromagnetic radiation, often detected as radio waves, due to its rapid rotation.
What is a pulsar?