Anatomy
This triangular muscle of the shoulder is named for its resemblance to a specific Greek letter.
What is the deltoid?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is the mitochondria?
What term describes a symbiotic relationship where both species benefit?
What is mutualism?
This central dogma process occurs in the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, utilizing RNA polymerase to synthesize a complementary strand of RNA from a DNA template.
What is transcription?
The structure built in 1994 that cost UCI the opportunity to have a football team.
What is the Science Library?
During the cell cycle, these protein complexes form at the centromere to serve as the attachment point for spindle microtubules.
What are kinetochores?
This phase of mitosis is when chromosomes line up along the cell's equator.
What is metaphase?
Charles Darwin developed the theory of natural selection after visiting this island chain.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
These non-coding sequences are removed from a pre-mRNA transcript during RNA processing, allowing the remaining protein-coding regions to be joined together.
What are introns?
Who is the head of the Human Biology major at UCI?
Who is Dr. Andrea Nicholas
These are periodic gaps in the myelin sheath of a neuron where the axon is exposed, allowing for saltatory conduction.
What are the Nodes of Ranvier?
This enzyme unwinds the DNA double helix during replication.
What is helicase?
This population growth model assumes unlimited resources.
What is the exponential growth model?
What structure is known as the UPS of the cell, where molecules are packed and shipped for exocytosis in the cell?
What is golgi apparattus?
This biological process is what the Science Library is modeled after.
These "islands" of endocrine tissue within the pancreas are responsible for producing insulin and glucagon.
What are the Islets of Langerhans?
The two types of cell division and what each produces.
What is mitosis and meosis?
This evolutionary concept describes when two species mutually drive each other's evolution, like flowers and their pollinators.
What is coevolution?
This large complex, responsible for degradation of cytosolic and nuclear proteins, recognizes proteins marked by a chain of specific proteins known as ubiquitin.
What are proteasomes?
This UCI Physiology Professor won the Nobel Prize in 2004.
Who is Irwin A. Rose?
It is the only bone in the human body that is not connected to any other bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
This type of transport moves molecules against their concentration gradient using ATP.
What is active transport?
This is the term for a species that has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem relative to its abundance?
What is a keystone species?
This regulatory mechanism in the trp operon of E. coli utilizes a leader sequence and the rapid movement of ribosomes to form mutually exclusive 2-3 or 3-4 stem-loop structures in the mRNA, prematurely halting transcription when tryptophan levels are high.
What is attenuation?
A scene in this famous heist movie was filmed at the Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility.
What is Ocean's 11?