Biochemistry
This molecule is often arranged in a bilayer, and serves as the foundation for the cell membrane, consisting of a hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic tails.
phospholipid
Of the letters of the English alphabet, this is a commonly used programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.
R
Where was Insulin synthesized?
University of Toronto
What is the largest organ of the human body?
Skin
This type of ecological interaction occurs when one organism benefits and the other is harmed, such as ticks on mammals.
Parasitism
This form of enzyme inhibition occurs when a molecule binds to an “allosteric site”, causing a conformational change that reduces the effectiveness of an enzyme.
Non-competitive inhibition
The course code of the introductory computational biology course being taught at UTSC by Prof. Filion.
BIOB20
Which gene-editing technology revolutionized genetic engineering with its "molecular scissors" approach?
CRISPR Cas 9
The digestion of carbohydrates starts here in your body
Mouth
This cognitive psychologist won a Nobel Prize for being the father of deep learning.
Geoffrey Hinton
This genetic disorder results from a phenylalanine hydroxylase enzyme deficiency, leading to an inability to convert excess phenylalanine into tyrosine.
Phenylketonuria
This type of analysis utilizes algorithms to identify and visualize the evolutionary relationships among a set of species or genes, often represented as a tree-like diagram.
Phylogenetic analysis
What percentage of human DNA do we share with bananas?
50%
What's the only organ in the human body that can regenerate significant portions of itself?
Liver
What is the longest and strongest bone in the human body called?
Femur
In the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis, this protein complex in the thylakoid membrane uses the sun’s energy to transfer excited electrons to NADP+, forming NADPH.
Photosystem I
This statistical test is used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups, assuming that the data follows a normal distribution. It is commonly applied in biological studies to compare measurements, such as gene expression levels, between two conditions.
T-test
What is the first genetically modified animal approved for human consumption in the United States?
Salmon
What's the strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size?
The masseter (jaw muscle)
This group of proteins, expressed only in extreme conditions, can maintain their structure at temperatures above 100°C and are found in human cells during severe fever.
Heat shock proteins (HSPs)
This process involves the removal of damaged nucleotides, the placement of corrected bases using DNA polymerase, and the sealing of the DNA backbone using ligase.
Nucleotide excision repair
This discrete probability distribution is used to model the number of events occurring within a fixed interval of time or space, assuming events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of each other. It is particularly useful for modelling rare events, such as mutations or spontaneous cell death in a given time frame.
Poisson distribution
This type of stem cell allows differentiation of a somatic cell to any other cell type, and its discovery has won the Nobel Prize in Physiology of 2012
Induced pluripotent stem cell
This is the only cranial nerve that extends beyond the head and neck to innervate organs in the thorax and abdomen.
Vagus nerve
Dinosaurs went extinct about… million years ago
65 (64 is also acceptable)