This clinical study took place in Alabama in 1932 and led to the establishment of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment?
100
This is the most abundant element in the universe.
What is Hydrogen?
100
This law says that an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
100
This is a cell that has a membrane bound nucleus and membrane bound organelles?
What is a eukaryotic cell?
100
This is the positively charged central core of an atom, containing most of its mass.
What is a nucleus?
200
This is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine.
What is Bioethics?
200
Helium balloons float because...
What is Helium is lighter than air?
200
This is the only force that acts on objects in free-fall.
What is gravity?
200
This is the process when an RNA copy is made of DNA.
What is transcription?
200
This is the element that all living things have in common.
What is Carbon?
300
This was a study done by a social psychologist at Yale University who wanted to test obedience to authority. Participants were told that the study was about memory and learning.
What is the Milgram Study?
300
These two elements are liquid at room temperature.
What are Bromine and Mercury?
300
This is the difference between speed and velocity.
What is velocity is a speed in a particular direction?
300
This kingdom of organisms live in harsh environments like hot sulfur springs.
What is archaebacteria?
300
This is what "DNA" stands for.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
400
This is the real name of an African-American woman who was the unwitting source of cells which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
400
This is the chemical name for water.
What is dihydrogen monoxide?
400
This states that the laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference.
What is Einstein's First Postulate?
400
Which organelle is the site of protein synthesis?
What are Ribosomes?
400
There are approximately these many stars in our Milky Way Galaxy?
What is 100 billion?
500
Name three fields of applied ethics.
What are geoethics, bioethics, business ethics, relational ethics, machine ethics, military ethics, and public service ethics?
500
This halogen has the highest electron affinity.
What is Fluorine?
500
The force of gravity and the intensity of a light source both fall off according to this mathematical law.
What is the Inverse Square Law?
500
This is a cell that contains homologous pairs of chromosomes.