Ecology
This type of organism breaks down dead plant and animal matter and returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Decomposer
Sodium chloride, which you know better as "table" this:
Salt
N is the symbol for the unit of force named for him.
Newton
"Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work.
Gregor Mendel
This is the BPO pillar that is defined by a sense of alignment and agreement among individuals or elements, often resulting in cooperation or cohesion within a group, community, or system.
Unity
A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.
Biome
Nitrous oxide also goes by this name.
It sounds like a pit crew, but it's the branch of physics concerned with motion & the action of forces on matter.
Mechanics
The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry & personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these.
Chromosomes
This was the year BPO was founded.
2010
The percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer.
90%
Chimney sweeps may find this 4-letter form of amorphous carbon coating their workplace.
Soot
The distance x that a runner will cover from a standing start is given by the equation x = 1/2 at^2, where t is time & a stands for this.
Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC & with it your genetic blueprint.
genome sequencing
This is the university BPO was founded at.
University of Maryland, College Park
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
Predation
Sodium bicarbonate, used in ovens & refrigerators alike, is known by this common 2-word name.
Sodium carbonate
In classical physics, laws of conservation cover mass, energy & this, equal to mass times velocity.
Momentum
This test performed between the 15th & 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal genetic disorders.
Amniocentesis
This is the cause supported by Beta Psi Omega's philanthropy.
pediatric cancer
This group of species are very sensitive to environmental changes. Usually they are the first to be hurt due to pollution.
Indicator species
"G" is for this, hydrated calcium sulfate, used in drywall.
Gypsum
It's the branch of physics that deals with the relationship between heat, work, temperature & energy.
Thermodynamics
In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain.
Corn
This was the original name of Beta Psi Omega.
Beta Iota Omicron.