Anatomy + Physiology
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Synthetic Biology Terminology
Chemistry!
McMaster Facts!
100

Right atrium, left atrium, rigth ventricle, left ventricle

What is the 4 chambers of the heart?

100

DNA (replicates) --> (via transcription) RNA --> (via translation) proteins

What is the central dogma?

100

The organism that you engineer

What is a chassis?

100

The name of MgBr2 

What is magnesium bromide?

100

The name of our club!

what is McMaster Synbio?

200

Duodenum, jejunum, ileum 

What are the three components of the small intestine?

200

What organelle does photosynthesis in plant cells

What is the chloroplast?

200

Supplementary foreign non-genomic circular DNA for host organisms. 

What is the function of a plasmid?

200

What is the type of intramolecular bonding found in NO3-?

What is covalent bonding?

200

The year that McMaster University allowed women to enroll as students. 

Trick question! Our first graduating class included 3 women!

300

An enzyme made by the salivary glands to help starch digestion in the mouth

What is salivary amylase? (Reject lingual lipase)

300

Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase

What are the stages of mitosis?

300

The metabolic step in a simple pathway that determines the overall rate of the entire metabolic pathway. 

What is a rate-determining step?

300

State the chemical formula of ferric chloride?

What is FeCl3

300

The name of the NEWEST library on campus!

What is the MacPherson Library?

400

State all of the anterior pituitary hormones!

What is FSH, LH, ACTH, TSH, Prolactin, Endorphins, GnRH? 

400

What is the name of the homologous structure to the cytosol for a mitochondria?

What is the mitochondrial matrix?

400

The process of introducing, through a laboratory protocol, foreign DNA into a host organism for it to use. 

What is transformation?

400

pH = pKa + log(A-/HA)

What is the Henderson-Hasselbach equation?

400

The name of the scientist whose brain slice we have in the PNB department to study!

Who is Albert Einstein?

500

Which artery from the cerebral arterial circle would lead to sensorimotor deficits in the in the lower limbs when blocked by an ischemic stroke?

What is the anterior cerebral artery?

500

Cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene 

What is the name of the chemical backbone of steroid hormones?

500

Standardized DNA sequences manufactured by companies that are found in iGEM distribution kits for us to assemble?

What is a BioBrick?

500

What is the value of Avogadro's constant used to calculate number of species per mole of substance?

6.0223 x 1023 mol-1

500

The former site of a secret dance hall, used when dancing was prohibited when we were Christian university in the late 1800s. 

What is the McMaster GO Bus Station?

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