Red Cross History
What is Switzerland?
What do ribosomes do?
Facilitate protein synthesis.
Is a DNA molecule positively charged or negatively charged?
Negatively Charged.
What does the prefix "hema-" refer to?
What is the blood?
What does RNA stand for?
Ribonucleic acid
The Red Cross emblem—a red cross on a white background—is the reverse of this country’s flag
What is Switzerland?
What happens in metaphase during mitosis?
Chromosomes line up at the middle of the cell allowing spindle fibers to attach.
If something has a pH of 2 is it acidic or basic?
What is acidic?
What does the prefix "hepato-" refer to?
What is the liver?
Olive oil is an example of which type of biological molecule?
What are lipids?
What is the month and day of the BASE Red Cross blood drive in 2026?
February 17th
What hormone does the pituitary gland make to activate/regulate the thyroid?
What is the Thyroid-stimulating hormone?
What did British chemist Rosalind Franklin discover?
The foundations for the discovery of DNA being a double helix.
What is the root word for "rib"?
Cost/o
What two reactants (inputs) do you need in photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide and water?
What are all the 5 lines of Service in the American Red Cross?
Disaster Relief, Training/Certifications, Blood Services, Services to Armed Forces, and International Services
What do histones do?
Help pack DNA strands/winding DNA around it.
What mineral does vitamin C help reabsorb back into the body from food?
What is iron?
What does the root word "stomat/o" mean?
What is the mouth?
What is the term for a molecule that has both a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic region
Amphipathic
This American woman founded the American Red Cross in 1881 after working as a nurse during the Civil War
Who is Clara Barton?
What is the function of the spleen?
What is the name of the new innovation that allows humans to repair and edit genes for the first time?
What is CRISPR-Cas9
What does the "-centesis" suffix mean?
What do transcription factors do?
Regulates which genes are turned on or off.