Pharmaceuticals
Antibiotic discovered accidentally in the 1920s
What is penicillin?
Strongest hydrogen halide acid
What is hydroiodic acid?
Type of mutation that causes sickle cell anemia
Main function of the occipital lobe of the brain
Scientist who took Photograph 51 of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
US state in which Pfizer was founded
What is New York?
Weakest intermolecular force
What is Dispersion Force?
Epigenetic modification that suppresses gene transcription
What is DNA methylation?
Area of the brain responsible for language comprehension
What is Wernicke's area?
Father of The Periodic Table
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
Acronym for a common drug that prevents HIV transmission
What is PrEP?
The radioactive isotope of carbon
What is carbon-14?
The only amino acid capable of making disulfide bonds
What is cysteine?
The ability of the brain to reorganize neuronal connections in response to learning/experience
What is neuroplasticity?
Scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with James Watson & Francis Crick
Who is Maurice Wilkins?
Most-prescribed antibiotic in the US (2020)
What is penicillin?
Typical orbital hybridization of a triple bonded atom
What is sp?
Company that invented portable, USB-port powered DNA sequencing technology
What is Oxford Nanopore?
Neurons that carry information from the brain to the peripheral nervous system
What are efferent neurons?
Chemical engineer responsible for scaling up the main industrial process used to produce ammonia
Who is Carl Bosch?
Drug blocked by the FDA in the 1960s over concerns of birth defects
What is thalidomide?
What is methylamine?
Name and species of first animal to be cloned
Who is Dolly the Sheep?
Brain network active during daydreaming
Developer of acyclovir, the first successful antiviral drug
Who is Gertrude Elion?