Flowers that we eat as vegetables
Clouds
Actors
Vitamins
5 Roles of calcium in our physiology/biology (difficult)
100

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

100

An English expression suggesting that the future is unpredictable and potentially dangerous or ominous or bad

The future looks cloudy

100

The late actor who performed as "Black Panther"


T-Challa (Chadwick Boseman)

100

Who is the singer-songwriter of the graduation song "Friends Forever"

Vitamin C

100

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.

200

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

200

An English expression meaning that someone is daydreaming

Head in the clouds

200

The late actress who played as a general and a princess in the Star Wars franchise.

Princess Leia (Carrie Fischer)

200

A vitamin required for forming blood clots

Vitamin K

200


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

300

A small green flower of Mediterranean origin that is often pickled and used as a topping on pizzas 


Capers

300

A type of rain cloud
 

Nimbo cumulus cloud or Nimbo strato-cumulus cloud

300

An actor who played as Batman, and a doctor from the television series "ER" (Emergency Room)

George Clooney

300

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?

300

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?

400

A massive green and yellow flower that can be cooked or pickled. But when this flower is in full bloom it is blue.

Artichoke

400

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

400

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"?
 

400

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.

400

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.

500

A red flower used as a special drink in the Carribbean country Jamaica.

Sorrel

500

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

500

The lead actor in the film "One who flew over the Cuckoo's nest"


Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)

500

How does vitamin C prevent scurvy

Vitamin C aids in formation of mature collagen

500

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