Bio 167
A group of 3 nucleotides in RNA that code for an amino acid
What is a codon?
The number of courses needed for a Biology minor, B.A major and B.S major
What are 6 courses (minor), 12 courses (B.A.), and 16 courses (B.S.)?
The only time that teaching fellows are "necessary"
What is before exams?
The rookie and the longest-serving Professor in the Biology Dept?
Who is Professor Charifson (2021) and Professor Ryan (1987)?
The Professors who are HWS alums
What is Professor Cushman and Professor Carle?
The person who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The corresponding classes to course numbers BIOL 222 and BIOL 238
What are Microbiology and Aquatic Biology?
The required course that prevents many from continuing Biology major tract.
What is CHEM 240 Organic Chemistry?
This Professor did their PhD in Honey Bee genetics
Who is Professor Fischman?
This hormone is secreted by the pancreas and is involved in fuel metabolism and the homeostasis of blood glucose.
What is insulin?
Cell type that does not have a nucleus
The corresponding classes to course numbers BIOL 340 and BIOL 316
What are Neurobiology and Conservation Biology?
The Bio student whose home is the closest and the Bio student whose home is farthest from the HWS campus
Who are Aliscia Richarson (Geneva) and Nana Yaa Asante (Ghana)?
This Professor is passionate about genetics, and how fitting that they have twin daughters.
Who is Professor Straub?
The most prevalent mating system in humans.
What is polygamy (polygyny)?
Similar gill pouches in embryos of a chick, human, and cat are an example of this.
What is developmental homology?
The number of "courses with lab" required for B.S and B.A degrees in Biology
What is 5 courses?
The worst part about being a Biology Major
What is not getting the classes you want/class registration?
Dr. Deutschlander's favorite part of the brain
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
The name for a group of giraffes when they are standing and the name for a group of giraffes when they are walking.
What is a tower of giraffes and a journey of giraffes?
The ability of an individual to produce offspring that survive and reproduce, relative to other individuals in the population.
What is fitness?
BIOL 212 Substitutions
What are ECON 202, GEO 207, PSY 210, or both PSY 201+202?
The number of Senior Biology majors (BS and BA together) and minors.
What are 23 majors and 19 minors?
These two professors taught another professor who now all work in the Bio department together
(P.S) Professor Ryan was Professor Cushman's Honors Project Advisor!)
The six past Biology Dept. Chairs
Who are Professor Cosentino, Professor Mowery, Professor Brown, Professor Kenyon, Professor Deutschlander and Professor Carle?