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History of Science
100

The Harvard University motto translates to this.

What is Truth?

100

It revolutionized molecular biology by allowing for the rapid amplification of DNA fragments.

What is PCR?

100

This is Kevin’s favorite drink.

What is Mountain Dew?

100

This former postdoc is the first author of the first paper ever published by the Haigis lab.

Who is Ken Lau?

100

Gregor Mendel established the laws of heredity using this model organism.

What is the pea?

200

Harvard is the oldest university in the United States, founded in this year.

What is 1636?

200

Mice have this many chromosomes.

What is 40?

200

Kevin was born in this country.

What is Italy?

200

This is the journal that the Haigis lab has published in the most.

What is Science Signaling?

200

She discovered transposons studying maize (corn) genetics.

Who is Barbara McClintock?

300

This, not Harvard, was the first medical school in the United States.

What is the Perelman School of Medicine?

300

Used as a counterstain with hematoxylin, eosin chemically reacts with these amino acids to stain cells red.

What are arginine and lysine?

300

In this movie, where the main character is named Kevin, a young boy is left behind when his family travels to Paris for the Christmas holiday.

What is Home Alone?

300

The famous Haigis et al. Nature Genetics paper was published in this year.

What is 2008?

300

This organism was the first eukaryote to have its genome sequenced to completion.

What is Saccharomyces cerevisiae?

400

It is the university with the most affiliated Nobel prize winners.

What is Harvard University?

400

Besides serine, threonine, and tyrosine, this is one of the six amino acids that can also be phosphorylated.

What are histidine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine, lysine, and cysteine?

400

This baseball player's signed jersey hangs in Kevin's office.

Who is Don Mattingly?

400

He is the most frequent co-author of Haigis lab papers.

Who is Doug Lauffenburger?

400

Temin and Baltimore won the Nobel prize for challenging the central dogma of molecular biology through their discovery of this enzyme.

What is reverse transcriptase?

500

Mario Capecchi is a Harvard alumnus who won the Nobel Prize in 2007 for inventing this widely used laboratory reagent.

What is a knockout mouse?

500

In a cross of Fabp1-Cre ; Nras+/- x KrasLSL-G12D/+ ; Nras+/-, it is the frequency at which Fabp1-Cre ; KrasLSL-G12D/+ ; Nras-/- mice are obtained.

What is 0?

500

One of the rarest Nike sneakers in existence, it is designed by this famous musician.

Who is Kanye West?

500

This is the all time most highly cited paper from the Haigis lab.

What is Yang et al. Molecular Cancer Research 2013?

500

This Greek physician published the first theory of the cause of cancer, postulating that it was due to an excess of black bile.

Who was Hippocrates?