BSJ History
The location of this semester's full group social (with pizza/snacks)
4.0 hill
The name of the pigment used by plants in photosynthesis
What is chlorophyll?
Misinformation
Fill in the blank: correlation does not equal _______
What is causation?
The famous physicist at Cal who was involved in the Manhattan Project and has a movie about him (+50 points for full name)
Who was Robert J. Oppenheimer?
The year that BSJ was founded
What is 1996?
The three main products of cellular respiration
What are ATP, H2O and CO2?
Eating carrots improves night vision
Misinformation (over-exaggeration)
The woman whose cancerous cells were taken and commercialized for research without her consent
Who was Henrietta Lacks?
A series of reactions within photosynthesis named after the UC Berkeley Nobel Laureate who helped discover it
What is the Calvin Cycle?
Our faculty advisor until this year
Who is Caroline Kane?
The names of all the noble gases
What are helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon?
Overconsumption of oxygen can be toxic, leading to oxygen poisoning
Fact
What are Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
The name of the biotech company founded by Jennifer Doudna
What is Mammoth Biosciences?
The name of our Fall 2023 issue
What is Magnitude?
The name of the uterus-like organ which allows male seahorses to give birth
What is a brood pouch?
Your tongue has specific zones for different tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour
Misinformation (misinterpretation of old German paper)
Name one of the common pitfalls of journalism
This element, discovered at Berkeley, is named after the creator of the periodic table itself
What is Mendelevium (Md, named after Dmitri Mendeleev)?
The student org that used to design our covers
What is Innovative Design?
The only letter which doesn't appear on the periodic table
What is J?
The human liver can regenerate even after up to 90% of it has been surgically removed
Fact
The branch of ethics that is duty-based, which requires following rules/duties regardless of outcome
What is deontological ethics?
The vitamins that were discovered at Berkeley in 1922 and 1935, respectively
What are vitamin E and vitamin K?