Chemistry
Q1. Clue: Stoichiometry in chemistry relies heavily on these mathematical comparisons, often written with a colon, to figure out how much product a reaction will form.
Q1. Response: What are ratios?
Q1. Clue: Chemists frequently use this mathematical concept, meaning 'out of 100', to measure and express the concentration of a solute dissolved in a solution.
Q1. Response: What is a percentage?
Q1. Clue: Physics dictates that the sharing or transferring of these negatively charged subatomic particles is what creates chemical bonds between atoms.
Q1. Response: What are electrons?
Q1. Clue: The human stomach secretes this highly reactive chemical, specifically the hydrochloric type, to break down food.
Q1. Response: What is acid?
Q1. Clue: This required introductory course sequence for many RIT science majors is commonly known by its code starting with “CHMG-14”.
Q1. Response: What is General Chemistry I & II?
Q2. Clue: A physical change of state occurs when you apply this form of energy to a liquid chemical, causing it to evaporate into a gas.
Q2. Response: What is heat?
Q2. Clue: To calculate a physical object's speed, you must divide this mathematical measurement of length by the time it took to travel.
Q2. Response: What is distance?
Q2. Clue: The classic physics formula F=ma calculates force by using this basic mathematical operation to combine an object's mass and its acceleration.
Q2. Response: What is multiplication?
Q2. Clue: A Punnett Square uses this mathematical concept of chance to determine the likelihood of an offspring inheriting a specific genetic trait.
Q2. Response: What is probability?
Q2. Clue: According to RIT’s official history, in what year was the College of Science established? A) 1955 B)1963 C)1978 D) 1987
Q2. Response: What is 1963?
Q3. Clue: This is the chemical reaction that biological plants use to transform water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight into glucose and oxygen.
Q3. Response: What is photosynthesis?
Q3. Clue: Biologists graph the rapid, continuous doubling of a bacteria population using this specific type of mathematical growth curve.
Q3. Response: What is an exponential curve?
Q3. Clue: This specific branch of physics explains how the biological lenses inside our eyes refract, or bend, light so we can see clearly.
Q3. Response: What is optics?
Q3. Clue: The human ear uses the eardrum to detect these physical waves traveling through the air, converting them into nerve signals.
Q3. Response: What are sound waves?
Q3. Clue: The College of Science offers this number of accelerated BS/MS pathways, allowing students to complete both degrees in as little as five years.
Q3. Response: What is 20?
Q4. Clue: Computer programmers write code to digitally simulate the 3D folding of these complex chemical molecules, which are made of amino acids.
Q4. Response: What are proteins?
Q4. Clue: This base-2 mathematical number system, consisting entirely of zeroes and ones, serves as the foundation for all modern computer coding.
Q4. Response: What is binary?
Q4. Clue: Video game programmers write code to simulate this physical force, ensuring that digital characters fall back down to the ground after jumping.
Q4. Response: What is gravity?
Q4. Clue: Bioinformatics uses computer code to analyze massive datasets of this sequence, the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or organism.
Q4. Response: What is a genome?
Q4. Clue: There is one Bachelor of Science at RIT which is in the College of Liberal Arts (COLA) and the College of Science (COS). Name that degree.
Q4. Response: What is Neuroscience BS?
Q5. Clue: Professionals in this branch of chemistry work in the medical industry to discover, develop, and test new synthetic drugs and medications.
Q5. Response: What is a pharmaceutical chemist?
Q5. Clue: These professionals use advanced math, statistics, and probability to calculate financial risks and premiums for insurance companies.
Q5. Response: What is an actuary?
Q5. Clue: Professionals in this specific engineering field apply the physics of load, stress, and materials to safely design structures like bridges and dams.
Q5. Response: What is a civil engineer?
Q5. Clue: These healthcare professionals analyze family medical histories and use biology to advise patients on the risks of inherited genetic conditions.
Q5. Response: What is a genetic counselor?
Q5. Clue: Each year, RIT’s College of Science recognizes this number of undergraduate research scholars for significant contributions like publications or conference presentations.
Q5. Response: What is 50?