Errors, like straws, are nothing but scientific Calvinism
La Mente
Tabula Rasa?
100
A machine whose job is to translate DNA recipes into proteins.
What is a ribosome?
100
These two mismatched scientists discovered the double helix structure of DNA.
Who are Who are Watson and Crick?
100
The first completely dominant genetic disease.
What is Huntington's Disease
100
These types of genes are expressed later in life because people begin to choose their own environments and comfort zones, giving more liberty to the genes to express themselves.
What are intelligence genes?
100
Chomsky concludes that the human brain has the special ability to learn language because it is equipped by these.
What are genes?
200
A sophisticated creature that stored its genetic recipe on DNA.
What is LUCA?
200
This naturalist’s work on the gradual change of species seemed to contradict Mendel’s theory of particulate inheritance.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This "word" is responsible for the production of glutamine. The more repetitions of this "word" that exists in DNA, the earlier Huntington's disease begins in humans.
What is CAG
200
There is zero correlation between ____ scores of adopted children living in the same family.
What is IQ scores?
200
A marker for this condition is located on the long arm of chromosome 7.
What is SLI?
300
This scientist owned Sir Richard Owen by responding that the hippocampus minor existed in ape brains.
What is Thomas Henry Huxley?
300
Garrod hypothesized this groundbreaking idea about genes and their function.
What is that a gene is a recipe for a single chemical?
300
Is it true or false that the more hygienic you are, the less likely you are to have asthma?
What is false
300
This type of stimulation is necessary for intelligence genes to function.
What is environmental stimulation?
300
Ancestral humans developed language instinct in the region of the brain devoted to what?
What is sound production and processing?
400
Mayday Mayday! This is what geneticists say when ribo-organisms venture anywhere too hot or try to grow too large.
What is error catatrophe?
400
This theory on inheritance was accepted before Mendel’s works on genetics. It’s also what you would eventually receive if your family owned a kitchen appliance factory.
What is blended inheritance?
400
The number of chromosomal regions that could be linked to the susceptibility of asthma.
What is 11
400
In the search for the intelligence gene, there was a difference found on the gene ______.
IGF2R
400
This part of a monkey's brain is used for controlling the muscles of the face, larynx, tongue, and mouth.
What is the Broca-homologue?
500
Two scienTists are responsible for the disCovery of the propertieS of RNA. NAme one.
What is Thomas Cech?
What is Sidney Altman?
500
What had Muller done to cell in order to cause artificial mutation?
What is expose cells to damaging X-ray radiation.
500
This word "means that the longer the repetition (of "words"), the longer it is likely to grow when copied for the next generation."
What is anticipation.
500
This word ends the quote, "The genes may create an appetite, but not an _________"
What is aptitude?
500
The hypothesis was concluded by this scientist ....
" ...pidgins becomes creoles only after they are learnt by a generation of children, who bring instinct to bear on their transformation."