Functional Groups
This functional group contains a carbon double-bonded to oxygen and single-bonded to hydrogen.
What is an aldehyde?
The pH of a neutral solution at 25°C
What is pH 7?
These proteins act as biological catalysts.
What are enzymes?
This 1993 film about resurrected dinosaurs is based on a Michael Crichton novel.
What is Jurassic Park?
This functional group contains an –OH attached to a saturated carbon.
What is an alcohol?
This type of bond involves the sharing of electrons between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This process converts mRNA into a protein.
What is translation?
This Netflix show features scientists racing to solve alternate-reality problems in the Upside Down.
What is Stranger Things?
The process by which cells divide to produce two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
This functional group consists of a carbon double-bonded to oxygen and single-bonded to an –OR group.
What is an ester?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This technique amplifies specific DNA sequences using cycles of heating and cooling.
What is PCR?
This HBO show follows a chemistry genius turned drug kingpin in Albuquerque.
What is Breaking Bad?
This molecule carries genetic information in most living organisms.
What is DNA?
This functional group contains a nitrogen bonded to one or more alkyl groups.
What is an amine?
The three-nucleotide sequence on mRNA that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
This physicist developed the theory of general relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is tRNA?
This functional group contains a carbonyl directly bonded to a nitrogen.
What is an amide?
This principle states that when a system at equilibrium is disturbed, it shifts to counteract the change.
What is Le Châtelier’s Principle?
This gene-editing technology uses a guide RNA and the Cas9 enzyme.
What is CRISPR?
In this 1997 film, society discriminates based on genetic profiling and DNA testing.
What is Gattaca?
This immune cell type is primarily responsible for producing antibodies
What are B cells? What are proteins?