A vegetable that is a very dense collection of white flowers that is often boiled/steamed and sometimes baked and fried as a meal.
Cauliflower
An English expression suggesting that the future is unpredictable and potentially dangerous or ominous or bad
The future looks cloudy
The late actor who performed as "Black Panther"
T-Challa (Chadwick Boseman)
Who is the singer-songwriter of the graduation song "Friends Forever"
Vitamin C
In neurons positively charged metals (sodium and potassium) are transported to form action potentials whereas calcium will enable this important process between neurons.
Release neurotransmitters and letting input of neurotransmitters lead to an action potential.
Poem hint:
A green vegetable that looks like a tree,
that Canadians eat regularly,
we think it has no flowers but there's actually many
The name of this plant is ______
Broccoli
An English expression meaning that someone is daydreaming
Head in the clouds
The late actress who played as a general and a princess in the Star Wars franchise.
Princess Leia (Carrie Fischer)
A vitamin required for forming blood clots
Vitamin K
When a neuron stimulates the neuromuscular junction to release calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum, this calcium alters the conformation of troponin to enable tropomyosin to pull on actin. What does this calcium mechanism summarize?
How calcium enables muscle contraction
A small green flower of Mediterranean origin that is often pickled and used as a topping on pizzas
Capers
A type of rain cloud
Nimbo cumulus cloud or Nimbo strato-cumulus cloud
An actor who played as Batman, and a doctor from the television series "ER" (Emergency Room)
George Clooney
How does vitamin D maximize blood calcium to make your bones strong?
By enabling calcium to be absorbed from food in our intestine.
DAILY DOUBLE: Why is vitamin D not actually a vitamin?
The fact that blood calcium helps convert factor prothrombin → thrombin is an example of what role of calcium?
How calcium can enable your blood to clot
DAILY DOUBLE: Blood banks that store blood for transfusions will eliminate this clotting process by using what?
A massive green and yellow flower that can be cooked or pickled. But when this flower is in full bloom it is blue.
Artichoke
A cloud of fair weather that appears in warm climates when there is not much wind. This cloud usually means it will not rain for the rest of the day.
Humus cumulus cloud
The main actress and protagonist of the film "Crazy Rich Asians"
Rachel Chu (Constance Wu)
DAILY DOUBLE: Who was the lead male actor in "Crazy Rich Asians"?
How does vitamin A help with vision?
- Vitamin A clears cornea and
- Vitamin A becomes a molecule called Rodhopsin which is sued by Rod cells of your retina to see in dark conditions.
Blood calcium can be sensed by parathyroid glands (located at our neck). Parathyroid hormone will be released based on the calcium level in the blood. What will parathyroid hormone do to blood calcium?
Parathyroid hormone will raise blood calcium by increasing bone resorption by augmenting osteoclasts activity. This is why parathyroid hormone is only released when blood calcium is low.
A red flower used as a special drink in the Carribbean country Jamaica.
Sorrel
A cloud that is formed above the tropopause where airplanes fly. Due to the cold temperature at this height of the atmosphere, this cloud is completely formed of ice crystals
Cirrus clouds
The lead actor in the film "One who flew over the Cuckoo's nest"
Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)
How does vitamin C prevent scurvy
Vitamin C aids in formation of mature collagen
Within our cells there are signals that open calcium rich fluid reservoirs (ex: ER/lysosomes) of the cell which can on cue activate enzymes such that specific DNA binding proteins can enter the nucleus. What role of calcium does this summarize?
Calcium-mediated transcription factor nuclear translocation