Biology
This class of RNA is responsible for carrying amino acids to the ribosome during protein synthesis.
What is transfer RNA or tRNA?
This term describes the change in position of an object over time and is a vector quantity.
What is displacement
This type of hybridization occurs in methane molecules.
What is sp³ hybridization?
The triple point of a substance refers to the temperature and pressure at which these three phases coexist in equilibrium.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving after arriving on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
This enzyme is responsible for removing RNA primers during DNA replication in prokaryotes.
What is DNA polymerase I?
The law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This law relates the partial pressure of gases to their solubility in liquids.
What is Henry's Law?
In thermodynamics, this is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
What is a calorie?
This US city hosts an annual Thanksgiving Day parade featuring giant balloons, starting in 1924.
What is New York City?
The endosymbiotic theory suggests mitochondria and chloroplasts originated from this type of organism.
What are prokaryotes?
This is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
This is the name of the thermodynamic function that combines enthalpy and entropy to predict the spontaneity of a reaction.
What is Gibbs free energy?
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature.
What is Boyle's law?
This US President proclaimed Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This molecule is responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood.
What is hemoglobin?
This thermodynamic quantity, defined as the measure of a system's disorder, must increase in an isolated system according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
What is entropy?
This theory in neuroscience describes the brain's ability to reorganize and form new neural connections after injury.
What is neuroplasticity?
These non-living particles infect host cells and replicate by using the host's cellular machinery.
What are viruses?
This popular Thanksgiving dish was first introduced by the Campbell Soup Company in 1955.
What is green bean casserole?
The region on a chromosome where sister chromatids are held together is called this.
What is the centromere?
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This is the name of the type of reaction where a molecule gains oxygen or loses hydrogen.
What is an oxidation reaction?
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating involuntary functions like breathing and heartbeat.
What is the medulla oblongata?
This year marks the first Thanksgiving feast shared between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
What is 1621?