History
Biochemistry
Methods/Procedures
Plants and Fungi
Genetics
200
Alexander Fleming discovered what antibiotic?
Penicillin
200
These are monomers of nucleic acids.
Nucleotides
200
This method allows bacteria to pick up plasmids from the environment and is often used to make E. coli produce a protein of interest.
Transformation
200
This is the female reproductive organ of a flower.
Pistil
200
This term refers to variants of a single gene.
Alleles
400
This process (that we now know is incorrect) consisted of inoculating people with pus or scabs from a wound from a mild case of smallpox in an attempt to give the patient a milder case of smallpox.
Variolation
400
This is the molecule that is released from pyruvate dehydrogenase and enters the Krebs cycle.
Acetyl-CoA
400
This test involves placing discs on an agar plate to test potential antibiotics.
Disc Diffusion Test
400
This is the scientific name of a flowering plant.
Angiosperm
400
This is a germline substitution of a single nucleotide at a specific position in the genome. Some of these single substitutions can influence the likeliness of one being predisposed to a disease.
Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)
600
This man suggested that microbes could cause disease.
Robert Koch
600
This pathway produces ribulose-5-phosphate and NADPH.
Pentose Phosphate Pathway
600
This is the 3rd phase of the PCR cycle.
Elongation/Extension
1) Denaturation, 2) Annealing, 3) Elongation/Extension
600
This cell wall protein is characteristic of fungi.
Chitin
600
DNA methylation does this to genes.
Reduces gene transcription (I will also take silences genes, increases steric hindrance. As long as you get the idea.)
800
Ferdinand Cohn founded this field of science (hint: Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch were doing similar work at the same time!)
Bacteriology
800
This compound is a potent signaling lipid made from a phosphorylated sphingosine.
Sphingosine-1-phosphate
800
When gating during flow cytometry, singlets are found here.
On the diagonal
800
In botany, this word is used instead of "phylum".
Division
800
This RNase is a critical member of the RISC complex that initiates RNA interference by cleaving dsRNA fragments.
Dicer
1000
This religion first suggested the existence of unseen organisms.
Jainism
1000
This amino acid is a critical component of antibodies, holding all of the chains together. (Bonus: 200 points if you can guess the antibody region it is most found in!)
Cysteine (hinge region)
1000
This stain is the gold standard for blood cancer diagnoses (Bonus: 100 points if you can name the cell that was named after the stain!)
Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E stain)
(The cell is the Eosinophil!)
1000
These plants are non vascular, herbaceous, lack xylem, are haploid, and are in the Bryophyta division.
Mosses
1000
This genetic disorder occurs when a neural tumor suppressor gene is mutated. It causes cafe au lait spots, tumors (growing on nerves) throughout the body, difficulty hearing and seeing, and symptoms of ADHD.
Neurofibromatosis