Ecology
This animal has the largest eyes of any land animal.
What is an ostrich?
Amino acids in a protein are joined by this molecule.
What are peptide bonds?
This cause of disease is the smallest microbe, and is only able to multiply while inside the cells of other living things.
What is a virus?
Through his experiments with pea plants he discovered the basic principles of heredity.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This professor was born in Hong Kong
Dr. Parrish
What was the first Canadian National Park created (in 1885)?
What is Banff National Park?
What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
What is a phosphate, nitrogenous base, and a sugar?
Name a disease that has been eradicated due to vaccination.
What is smallpox.
These viruses infect and replicate only in bacterial cells (and Dr. Pilgrim teaches you about them in GENET270)!
What is a bacteriophage?
This professor was president of the Doctor Who fan club in high school
Dr. Parrish
What is the three-letter acronym of the international organization established in 1961 whose purpose is environmentalism and conversation? Hint - this organization’s logo includes a depiction of a species of bear found in Asia.
WWF (Stands for World Wildlife Foundation
What is the name of a place on an enzyme where a molecule binds?
What is the active site?
What is an immune system molecule that can influence mate choice?
MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex)
Which website do geneticists use to find sequences of DNA?
BLAST
This professor did all of my training (BSc, PhD, Post-Doc) in Canada?
Who is Dr. Ingham.
An anoxic environment wouldn’t be great for humans, however certain organisms thrive in them.
What element is absent in an anoxic environment?
What is oxygen?
Working with X-Rays may have led to this English scientist’s death and miss the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Name one of the first lines of defence.
What are the skin and mucous membrane?
This is an ambitious international research effort aimed at deciphering the chemical makeup of the entire human genetic code (i.e., the genome).
What is the human genome project?
This professor has a Twitter handle @24beavers
Who is Dr. Boyce?
Name at least 3 out of 5 of the major types of interactions among organisms.
Hint - Dr. Boyce teaches about them in BIOL331!
What are predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
Plasma is the liquid part of the human blood that is like a soup, containing several mirco- and macromolecules suspended in a fluid. This is the most abundant protein in the human blood plasma.
Albumin
Name at least two of the four signs of inflammation?
What are redness (Latin rubor), heat (calor), swelling (tumor), and pain (dolor)?
What technology was discovered in bacteria, and used to find and edit specific parts within a DNA.
What is CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)?
This professor was a hair model when I was an undergraduate student.
Who is Dr. Parrish?