Molecular and Cell and Microbiology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Earth Science
Bio/ESS Technology
100

This specific cell type is targeted by HIV.

What are CD4+/Helper T cells?

100

The phylum that insects belong to.

What is Arthropoda? 

100

The process by which mountains form.

What is orogeny?

100

A blot of this cardinal direction and last name is used in molecular biology to detect DNA.

What is Southern? 

200
The organelle in animal cells that serves as the MTOCs.

What are centrosomes?

200

The theory that states that evolution occurs slowly, with small changes over time in contrast to in bursts of rapid change. 

What is gradualism?

200

Tropical storms that occur in the southwest Pacific. 

What are cyclones?

200

A device that is used to measure the motions during an earthquake.

What is a seismograph?

300

This metabolic pathway, split into oxidative and non-oxidative phases, is responsible for building the sugars required to form nucleotides.

What is the pentose phosphate pathway?

300

The type of diversity that measures the species richness and relative abundance within the same area. 

What is alpha diversity?

300

This occurs when tectonic plates rise after being depressed by glaciers that later melt away.

What is isostatic rebound?

300

A gene-editing technology that utilizes DNA repeats found in bacteria in response to phages. 

What is CRISPR?

400

A disease that primarily affects nerve cells, and is the the result of deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme.

What is Tay-Sachs?

400

This is the term for a taxon that disappears on the fossil record and then reappears later.

What is a lazarus taxon?

400

The fossil genus that represents the transition between a fish and a tetrapod, commonly referred to as a fishapod.

What is Tiktaalik?

400

Abbreviated as ELISA

What is Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay?