Chemistry
The chemical compound of water
What is H2O
The SI unit of force
What is the Newton?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondrion?
The closest planet to the Sun
What is Mercury?
The Latin name for the chemical element with the symbol Au
What is Aurum?
The most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere
Nitrogen gas
The force responsible for holding protons and neutrons together in an atomic nucleus.
What is the strong nuclear force?
The organelle in a plant where photosynthesis takes place
What is the chloroplast?
The name of our neighboring galaxy that is closest to the Milky Way?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The force that keeps a planet in orbit around its host star
What is gravity?
The type of bond is formed when two atoms share electrons
What is a covalent bond?
The phenomenon where a moving source of sound approaches a listener, causing the frequency of the sound waves to increase.
What is the Doppler effect?
The building block molecule of proteins where its sequence determines the structure and function of a protein.
What is an amino acid?
The phenomenon where the Moon blocks the Sun's light from reaching Earth
What is a solar eclipse?
The process that causes the build-up of electrical charge during a thunderstorm to cause lightning
What is electrostatic induction?
The process where a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid
What is sublimation?
The type of wave with oscillations that are perpendicular to the direction of propagation
What is a transverse wave?
The protein complex that binds to specific DNA sequences to regulate gene expression
What is a transcription factor?
The planet in our solar system known for having an extremely powerful and long-lived storm
What is Jupiter?
The theoretical framework aiming to reconcile general relativity and quantum mechanics, suggesting that all particles and fundamental forces are manifestations of tiny, vibrating one-dimensional objects
What is string theory?
The type of compound that has multiple chiral centers but is achiral due to an internal plane of symmetry.
What is a meso compound?
The interpretation of quantum mechanics suggesting that all possible outcomes of a quantum event actually occur, each in its own "branch" of the universe, and that the process of decoherence explains why we observe a single outcome.
What is the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics?
The genetic phenomenon where a segment of a chromosome is flipped or reversed
What is a chromosomal inversion?
The phenomenon where light from a distant star or galaxy is bent around a massive object to create multiple images or distortions.
What is gravitational lensing?
The ensemble used to describe a system in thermal and particle exchange with a reservoir, where the temperature, volume, and chemical potential are fixed.
What is the grand canonical ensemble?