Biology
Term for one form of a gene that masks a recessive form, or for the leader of a group of animals
What is dominant?
An oncogene is defined as a sequence of genetic material that can induce this disease
What is cancer?
The general theory of relativity is concerned with this universal force of attraction
What is gravity?
Psychology's "Hierarchy of" these says that more basic ones like food must be met before loftier ones
What are needs?
Used for heartburn, Tums & Rolaids are 2 of these medications that neutralize certain gastric agents
What are antacids?
Bacteria in cattle intestines produce this gas implicated in global warming
What is methane?
A substance called "heme" is the most "ironic" portion of this blood pigment
What is hemoglobin?
The universe could end with the Big Crunch, meaning it collapses into one of these
What is a black hole?
Around 1880 Dr. Charles Lasegue described this impulse control disorder involving theft as typical of housewives
What is kleptomania?
Like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is caused by the bite of an infected one of these bugs
What is a tick?
Some of these pituitary chemicals, like thyrotropin, affect other endocrine glands
What are hormones?
Its 2 phases are anabolism, which combines molecules, & catabolism, which breaks them down
What is metabolism?
When helium-4 is cooled below 2.17 K, it becomes a "super" this, able to comb walls & flow frictionlessly
What is a superfluid?
You may have run into people with this personality disorder named for a self-involved youth who loved his own reflection
What is narcissism?
Testing PSA levels is a standard screening method for this type of cancer
What is prostate?
Organisms that can be cut into 2 mirror images along only one plane have the bilateral type of this property
What is symmetry?
These compounds may have "simple" molecules, like sugars, or "complex" ones, like cellulose
What are carbohydrates?
Some versions of this 6-letter theory said that space-time had exactly 10 dimensions
What is the string theory?
From around 1898 to 1930, this Russian studied conditioned reflex, like the one that will make you raise your hand now
Who is Pavlov?
Though rare, this disease once known as the Black Death is still around, mostly in Madagascar & the Democratic Republic of Congo
What is the bubonic plague?
This term for tissue that takes nutrients through a plant also refers to human blood vessels
What is vascular?
Pauling found an "alpha" type of this spiral in proteins; Watson & Crick found a "double" one in DNA
What is a helix?
There are rates of this not just for electricity but for heat; copper is 15,000 times faster than air
What is conductivity?
Freud distinguished "real" fear from this kind of fear, such as phobias; now it's an adjective for anyone anxious or just high-strung
What is neurotic?
From Latin for to crush or bruise, it's an injury caused by a blow that doesn't break the skin
What is contusion?