K-12 Biology
This system includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood, and helps maintain homeostasis.
What is the circulatory system?
By the fall of 2023, the university reached this major enrollment milestone.
What is over 7,600 students?
This 2016 film highlights the vital work of Katherine Johnson and other Black female mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race.
What is Hidden Figures?
Which plane divides the body into right and left parts ?
What is sagittal plane?
This term describes a mathematical relationship where every input has exactly one distinct output, and it is commonly verified using the "vertical line test" on a graph.
What is a function?
This is the process of cell division that results in two identical daughter cells.
What is mitosis?
Before becoming the permanent president, this leader was named the university's interim president in 2014.
Who is Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson?
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays this "Father of Computer Science" who cracks the Enigma code in the 2014 film The Imitation Game.
Who is Alan Turing?
What is the best example of a ball and socket joint?
What is the shoulder joint?
In statistics, this measure of central tendency is calculated by adding all the numbers in a data set together and then dividing by the total count of numbers.
What is the mean? (or Average)
This is the membrane that surrounds and protects a developing fetus.
What is the amniotic sac?
TAMUSA earned this "colorful" award in recognition of its exceptional support for veteran students.
What is the VEER Gold Award?
To create water on Mars in "The Martian", Mark Watney uses a catalyst to decompose this toxic rocket fuel into nitrogen and hydrogen, which he then burns with oxygen.
What is hydrazine?
What is the type of muscle contraction that occurs when there is no change in muscle length and no movement occurs?
What is isometric?
Denoted by placing a number between two vertical bars, this mathematical operation represents a number's physical distance from zero on a number line, meaning the result is never negative.
What is absolute value?
These muscles are voluntary, while smooth and cardiac muscles are involuntary.
What are skeletal muscles?
Under the leadership of President Salvador Hector Ochoa in 2024, the university launched this financial aid and accessibility initiative.
What is the Jaguar Promise Program?
In the HBO series Silicon Valley, the main characters develop "Pied Piper," a revolutionary algorithm designed for this type of data efficiency.
What is data compression?
When the biceps muscle contracts and the elbow flexes, the biceps is performing?
What is a concentric contraction?
When graphing rational functions, this is the geometric term for an invisible line that a curve gets infinitely close to, but mathematically never touches.
What is an asymptote? (Horizontal and/or Vertical)
This molecule brings amino acids to ribosomes to build proteins.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
In 2009, this specific piece of legislation was passed to officially establish TAMUSA as a stand-alone university.
What is Senate Bill 629?
This 2004 cult classic is often cited as one of the most scientifically accurate depictions of time travel, involving "The Box" and a focus on engineering.
What is Primer?
What is the most common class of levers in the human body?
What is a third-class lever?
Celebrated by math enthusiasts every March 14th, the irrational number π is equal to this value when properly rounded to three decimal places.
What is 3.142? (or not rounded 3.141)