Famous Scientists
Describes evolution in his magnum opus "The Origin of Species".
Who is Charles Darwin?
This part of phages contains the genetic material.
What is the head (or capsid)?
This virus caused a pandemic that began in late 2019 and causes the disease COVID-19.
What is SARS-CoV-2?
Haunted doll featured in The Conjuring franchise.
In real life, Cordyceps infects this type of animal, famously forcing it to climb plants before it dies.
What are insects (such as ants)?
This scientist's experiments with pea plants laid the foundation of genetics.
Who is Mendel?
Double stranded genetic material with uracil bases encoding phage genome.
What is RNA?
This virus infects the immune system’s CD4 T cells and can lead to AIDS.
What is HIV?
Movie known for the famous phrase "Please I'm a STARRRRR".
Who is Pearl?
Word for disease-causing microbes including viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
What are pathogens?
Discovered an uncertainty principle that describes the movement of electrons around a nucleous.
Who is Heisenberg?
The T4 phage is famous for infecting this common gut bacterium.
What is E. coli?
Spread through bites, this virus is almost always fatal once symptoms appear.
What is rabies?
In The Shining, the Torrance family stays at this isolated Colorado hotel.
What is the Overlook Hotel?
The first person infected in an outbreak, the one every zombie movie starts with, is called this.
What is patient zero?
This Scottish scientist discovered penicillin in 1928 after noticing mold killing bacteria on a plate.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Genetic material travels from the capsid into the host through this hollow structure.
What is the tail (tail tube)?
This virus, spread by Aedes mosquitoes, was linked to birth defects like microcephaly in the 2015-2016 outbreak.
What is Zika?
George A. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead helped popularize this type of monster.
What are zombies?
Mad cow disease and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are caused by these misfolded infectious proteins.
What are prions?
This chemist invented PCR in the 1980s and won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Who is Kary Mullis?
Many phage heads, including T4’s, have this 20-sided geometric shape.
What is icosahedral?
This virus is so contagious that one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in an unvaccinated population.
What is measles?
Jordan Peele won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for this 2017 horror film.
What is Get Out?
The so-called “brain-eating” Naegleria fowleri is this type of single-celled organism found in warm freshwater.
What is an amoeba?