Molecular Biology
The two components that make up chromatin.
What are DNA and histones?
The term for organisms found at the first trophic level in a food chain.
What are primary producers?
What are three classes you must take in order to graduate with a degree in biology
Any 3 required courses.
This primatologist is famous for her groundbreaking decades-long study of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park
Who is Jane Goodall?
What is bios, which means life?
The four different types of possible mutations.
What are frameshift, silence, mis-sense and nonsense?
Organisms in the genus Bombus are responsible for the pollination of many plants. What are they more commonly called?
What is a bumble bee?
This professor is known for her research on rare and aggressive cancers.
Who is Dr. April Weissmiller
The two biologists are responsible for proposing the double helix model of DNA in 1953.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
This organelle is responsible for the green color in plants.
What are chloroplasts?
The name of the enzyme that relaxes supercoiling in DNA.
What is topoisomerase?
This organism is considered a "missing link" between fish and tetrapods.
What is tiktaalik?
This is the only biology professor to teach Immunology.
Who is Dr. Anthony Farone
This female biologist used X-ray crystallography to capture "Photo 51," which was critical to understanding the structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This is the executive assistant of the biology department.
Who is Tammy Howell?
What is an inhibitor that binds to an enzyme in a place that is not the active site, causing a conformational change in the active site and the Vmax to decrease.
This trait allows plants to have an independent sporophyte and gametophyte generations.
What is the alternation of multicellular generations?
Who is the current chair of the biology Department?
Who is Dr. Nelson?
This discovery, which provided the "molecular scissors" for genetic engineering, is a bacterial defense system that uses enzymes to cut foreign DNA at specific sequences.
What are restriction enzymes?
This is what Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered.
What are micro-organisms (bacteria, protists, nematodes etc.)?
The process by which proteins are tagged for degradation.
Ubiquitization.
This term describes the process by which plants move nutrients away from their leaves to store in their trunks and roots over the winter, leaving the leaving beautiful fall colors.
What is senescence?
This biology program sends students to Costa Rica every year to study tropical biome analysis. Who hosts it?
Who is Vincent Cobb?
This theory, championed by Lynn Margulis, was strongly supported by the discovery that mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own circular DNA and 70S ribosomes.
What is endosymbiosis?
This is what CRISPR stands for.