CBC Board Trivia!
Kyle's Halloween costume this year - Three-Hole-Punch Jim - was inspired by this award-winning TV show
What is The Office?
A condition in which the blood doesn't have enough healthy red blood cells; a well-known type of this disease is sickle-cell
What is anemia?
Dr. Yoshito Kishi is the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry at this prestigious university - the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States
What is Harvard University?
Dr. Matthias Selke's research focuses on this gaseous chemical - the lowest excited state of a certain diatomic molecule
What is singlet oxygen?
This law states that at constant temperature, the volume of a gaseous sample is inversely proportional to its pressure (P1V1 = P2V2)
What is Boyle's law?
Cindy's Discord PFP is a picture of this amphibian (no, it's not an alien or mushroom)
What is a frog?
Also known as senile dementia, this condition refers to a progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions
What is Alzheimer's disease (AD)?
Dr. Kishi has successfully synthesized palytoxin, the second most poisonous non-protein substance which targets this enzyme known for maintaining the resting membrane potential in the cell
What is the sodium-potassium pump (Na+/K+-ATPase)?
The labs of Dr. Yong Ba and Dr. Xin Wen both study variants of this protein, which allow certain plants and animals to survive in temperatures below the freezing point of water
What are antifreeze proteins (AFPs)?
(Daily Double!!)
Named after an English physicist, this constant has a value of ~96,485 C/mol
What is the Faraday constant?
Michael's Discord PFP (and Halloween costume!) was inspired by this "extremely" hilarious Disney character
Who is Goofy?
Type I diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces very little (if any) of this peptide hormone
What is insulin?
As a postdoctoral research fellow, Dr. Kishi worked with this chemist, who developed rules for stereochemistry in organic reactions and won the Nobel Prize of Chemistry in 1965 "for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"
Who is Robert Burns Woodward?
Dr. Yangyang Liu's research primarily focuses on the synthesis nanoporous crystalline coordination polymers (consisting of metal clusters coordinated to organic ligands) as well as its potential applications (such as the detoxification of mustard gas)
What are metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)?
A functional group with two hydroxyl groups on the same carbon
What is a hydrate (or geminal/gem diol)?
Nina is a huge fan of this video game series, in which the general plot involves the title princess counting on Link to save the kingdom
What is The Legend of Zelda?
This condition refers to a chronic sleep disorder characterized by overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep
What is narcolepsy?
In addition to his work on organic synthesis, Dr. Hishi also studies how tumor promoters activate this protein - a certain enzyme that phosphorylates specific amino acids of proteins using ATP
What are protein kinases?
As an atmospheric chemist, Dr. Krishna Foster works with her lab to study particulate matter and the formation of these compounds that consist of fused aromatic rings with no heteroatoms or other substituents (abbreviated PAHs)
What are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons?
This medical condition refers to the presence of excess fluid in the body tissues
What is edema?
One of Anna's favorite songs from Taylor Swift is perfect for the holiday season, where "my winter nights are taken up by static, stress and holiday shopping traffic, but I close my eyes and I'm somewhere else - just like magic..."
What is Christmas Tree Farm?
(Daily Double!!)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - a progressive nervous system disease that affects motor neurons - is also often called this disease after a certain baseball player was diagnosed with it
What is Lou Gehrig's disease?
Dr. Kishi's group successfully synthesized geldanamycin, an antitumor antibiotic that inhibits the function of this protein - a chaperone protein that assists other proteins to fold properly and stabilizes proteins against heat stress
What are heat-shock proteins (Hsp90)?
Dr. Michael Hayes' research focuses on enzymes that catalyze this reaction - the removal of an amino group from a molecule (one common example involves the conversion of cytosine to uracil)
What is deamination?
The three irreversible steps of glycolysis are regulated by hexokinase, pyruvate kinase, and this enzyme
What is phosphofructokinase (PFK-1)?