CHEMISTRY
In chemistry, B.P. stands for this; water's is 212 degrees Fahrenheit
What is the boiling point?
The main harbor on Tobago has a huge port for these, so come on, Mabel, let's get off & see the town
What are cruise ships?
The presence of this letter chromosome determines that a zygote will develop into a male
What is Y?
When you divide 17 by 5, 2 is this
What is the remainder?
The outer covering of a hair shaft is called this, like the area at the base of a fingernail
What is a cuticle?
In chemistry, it's a substance with 2 or more different elements; in real estate, it's a property with multiple homes
What is a compound?
Harry Belafonte popularized this type of rhythmical song from Trinidad
What is calypso?
Term for the organism that provides nutrition to a parasite, not always willingly or knowingly
What is a host?
If the legs of a right triangle are 3 inches & 4 inches, this is the length of the hypotenuse
What is 5 inches?
It can be a single hair, or a string of pearls
What is a strand?
It's the general term for a chemical process that converts a substance into a different one; give us your gut...
What is a reaction?
T&T are close enough to this country that the water from the Orinoco murks up scuba diving
What is Venezuela?
It's the branch of biology that studies various animals
What is zoology?
To write one of these as a decimal, move the decimal point 2 places to the left
What is a percentage?
This kind of doctor treats diseases of the hair & nails as well as skin
What is a dermatologist?
A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration
What is dilution?
Fashioned from empty oil containers during WWII, it's Trinidad & Tobago's national instrument
What is the steel drum?
This disk-shaped organ that develops during pregnancy provides oxygen & nutrients to the fetus & also carries away waste
What is a placenta?
As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array
What is The Matrix?
This wavy hairstyle is named for the way the ridges of hair go around in a circle one time
What is a 360 wave?
This unit with an animal name is used to measure extremely large numbers of atoms & other tiny particles
What is a mole?
At the Caroni Sanctuary you can see Trinidad's national bird, the scarlet this
What is the an ibis?
The 2 strands of this stuff that codes genetic information are said to resemble a twisted ladder
What is DNA?
In a set of data, the median is the middle point, the mean is the average & this other "M" is the number that occurs most often
What is mode?
"Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow again after he was shaven"--these biblical people didn't think of that
Who are the Philistines?