Food Chemistry
Brain
Neuroscience
Health
MIT
100
Properties that depend only on the number of solute particles and not on their identity
What are colligative properties?
100
Membrane capacitance and this other feature of an axon determine its conduction velocity
What is axon diameter?
100
The neurotransmitter in the neuromuscular junction
What is acethylcholine?
100
#1 most preventable cancer
What is Lung cancer?
100
Number of undergraduate students at MIT
What is about 4,500? (will accept 4,000 as well)
200
molality
What is the unit that gives the moles of solute divided by the kg of solvent?
200
This is a type of pain seen in amputees
What is phantom pain?
200
A conditional statement to iterate over an array of elements in MATLAB
What is for loop?
200
These are the three parts of the sternum
What is the manubrium, body, and xiphoid process?
200
This is when students at MIT decorate the buildings or climb buildings at night (even when they shouldn't be)
What is hacking?
300
groups of atoms which impart characteristic properties
What are functional groups?
300
the brain can be modeled in this "physical" way
What is an electrical circuit?
300
The random chaotic movement of molecules
What is diffusion?
300
This is the #1 cause of death in Brazil
What is Coronary Heart Disease?
300
At MIT majors are referred to in this quirky way
What is by numbers?
400
the effect that leads to rancidity
What is lipid oxidation?
400
This circuit component builds up charge while this other one holds it back
What is a capacitor and a resistor?
400
The endogenous chemicals that transmit information from one neuron to another
What are neurotransmitters?
400
This is actually what the "funny bone" really is
What is the Ulnar Nerve?
400
Number of undergraduate dorms at MIT
What is 11?
500
fat that contains no carbon-carbon double bonds
What are saturated fats?
500
a microbial-prokaryotic piece of DNA is used in this technique
What is optogenetics?
500
A linear algebra tool to save data and access it by rows and columns
What is matrix?
500
When performing CPR, you compress the chest of an adult __-__cm, __ cm for children, and __ cm for infants
What is 5-6 cm for an adult, 5 cm for children, and 4 cm for infants
500
Amherst, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale
What are the universities offering need-blind & full-need admissions to international students?