Biology
WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS
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Chemistry
100

Nidologists know male wrens build an array of these abodes to impress females who come into their territory

nests


100

"I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed--or worse, expelled"

Hermione Granger

100

Many many years ago the Church of the United Brethren in Christ opened Otterbein University in this year

1847

100

You can breath easily because plants let off this gas as a waste product

Oxygen

200

Study of isolated species, called this "biogeography", can look at a peak or a national park, not just a place surrounded by water

island

200

"You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest"

Voldemort

200

Otterbein's newest building finished construction in 2016 and opened for students, now many of us have classes or dine in this building!

The point

200

A joint experiment between Dubna and Oak Ridge scientists produced what 117-proton element named after a US state

Tennessine

300

"By Means of" this 2-word process was fit enough to survive as a subtitle for Darwin's "Origin of Species"

natural selection

300

"Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser"

Hagrid

300

Freshman here learned that “living on campus” could mean “living underwater” after a burst pipe flooded this hall.

Mayne hall

300

First proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904, a model of the atom in which electrons were embedded in a large positively-charged mass, with no nucleus, was popularly known by this alliterative food nickname

Plum Pudding

400

AlphaFold, a Google-developed AI system, has predicted the complex structures of 200 million of these substances

proteins

400

"You are here to learn the subtle science & exact art of potion-making"

Professor Snape

400

If you are wondering around the first floor of the science center you might run into some of these exotic amphibians in a tank

axolotl

400

Watch out! A nucleophilic molecule is capable of doing this type of attack

Backside attack

500

Knowing mitos is Greek for "thread" helps you name this cell structure loaded with the energy-carrying molecule ATP

the mitochondria

500

"I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for"

Sirius Black

500

These three professors are known around Otterbein for their academic bromance, these three professors—Dr. Tansey, Dr. Sinn, and ______  are often spotted together discussing philosophy, history, or where to get lunch 

Dr. Lehman

500

This principle states that if a dynamic equilibrium is disturbed, the system adjusts to counteract the change.

Le Châtelier’s Principle