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100

What are the first 10 digits of pi?

3.141592653

100

Where is DNA stored in the cell?

The nucleus
100

What are the products of the following reaction?

NaOH + HCl

H2O and NaCl (salt water!)

100

The movie Hidden Figures is about this woman who helped calculate important trajectories in the space race.

Katherine Johnson

100

Which Identifying feature is different for identical twins?

Fingerprints

200

Free fall of an object is an example of:

a. constant velocity motion

b. uniformly accelerated motion

c. non-uniformly accelerated motion

d. zero velocity motion

b. uniformly accelerated motion

200

What is the largest organ in the human body?

Skin

200

What is the formula of Nitric Acid?

HNO3

200

Who is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

(and the only woman to win two!)

Marie Curie

200

What is the hardest material on earth?

Diamond

300

Solve for X

x3 - 4x2 - 3x = 9x

x = -2, 0, 6

300

Aside from marine mammals, what is the only kind of mammal native to New Zealand?

Bats

300

What does FTIR show? What does it tell you about a compound?

The absorbance of IR radiation. 

It can give information about the functional groups present in a compound.

300

What did Rosalind Franklin help discover?

The structure of DNA

300

What is the study of pollen and spores called?

Palynology

400
Your boat has an acceleration of 15m/s2, how far must you travel to reach a speed of 25m/s if you are starting at rest?

20.8m

vf2 = vi2 + 2a(xf - xi)                                       (25)2 = (0)2 + 2(15)(xf - 0)

625 = 30xf                                                                           xf= 20.8m

20.8 - 0 = 20.8


400

What are the requirements for a molecule to pass through the cell wall by diffusion?

It must be a small nonpolar molecule

400

2HI --> I2 + H2

If the concentration of HI is increased from 2M to 4M, the rate of reaction goes from 3.0 x 10-4 to 1.2 x 10-3.

What is the order of this reaction?

Second order

400

Who was the first woman in space?

Valentina Tereshkova

400

What is an SSRI and what does it stand for?

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors are a class of Antidepressant drugs

500

What is the derivative of 5ex + 7xcos(x)

5ex + 7cos(x) - 7xsin(x)

500

Given an mRNA sequence of AUUGCCGAU, what is the sequence of the anticodon on the tRNA?

UAACGGCUA

500

What is the name of this organic compound

CH3CH2(CH2CH3)CH2CH2(CH3)CH2CH3

2-ethyl-4-methylhexane

500

Who is considered the founder of scientific computing and was the first computer programmer?

Ada Lovelace

500

What type of rocks are fossils found in?

Sedimentary