USTe-rivia
This bronze statue located in front of the Main Building is used to commemorate the founder of the university.
Benavides Statue/Benavides Monument
The plant that Gregor Mendel–the father of modern genetics—chose to work with
Peas
One of the prospects of the cell theory, he was the first to illustrate the smallest units of an organism.
Robert Hooke
Served as a professor of Natural History in UST, he started to systematically gather and catalogue the collections in the UST Museum, some of which date back to 1682.
Rev. Fr. Castro de Elera, O.P.
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom and one from dad.
Alleles
The islands in which Charles Darwin drew inspiration from in developing his Theory of Evolution.
Galapagos Islands
This college was divided into Arts and Pure Sciences, evolved into the University of Santo Tomas College of Science
College of Liberal Arts
A global research project whose goal is to map out the sequences of the entire human genome
Human Genome Project
The ship that took naturalist Charles Darwin on his first expedition around the world.
The HMS Beagle or Beagle
In Alone/Together, this actor portrayed a biology student from the University of Santo Tomas.
Enrique Gil
Movement of alleles into or out of a population
Gene flow
Her cervical cancer cells are the source of the first immortalized cell line.
Henrietta Lacks
He granted the university its royal title in 1785.
King Charles III of Spain
This rule states that in DNA, the amount of adenine equals the amount of thymine, and the amount of cytosine equals the amount of guanine.
Chargaff’s Rule
An invisible line divides the animals of Asia from those of Australia.
Wallace Line