🦠🧬 biology 🧫🌱
This organelle is commonly referred to as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
This element has 10 protons.
What is neon?
This equation reflects Newton's second law.
F = MA
This scientist was the only scientist in history to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.
Who was Marie Curie?
This gas is the main component of smog.
What is ozone?
Drosophila melanogaster is perhaps the world's most famous "model organisms" used in scientific research. What's the better known name of this organism?
🪰 the fruit fly 🪰
This chemical element is always required for combustion to take place.
What is oxygen?
This is the name for the lowest frequency designated on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are Extremely Low Frequencies (ELFs)? ("Radio frequencies" is also an acceptable answer).
This scientist is credited with discovering cells in 1665.
Who was Robert Hooke?
This is the name of the most common form of skin cancer.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
This is the name for the substance obtained from red algae that is often used as a solid growth medium in Petri dishes to culture microorganisms.
What is agar?
This common pH indicator turns bright pink at a pH of around 8.3.
What is phenolphthalein?
This law states that the force required to extend or compress a spring is proportional to the distance across which the spring is manipulated.
What is Hooke's law?
This psychologist developed the first theory of childhood development.
Who was Jean Piaget?
A fungus of this genus is famous for turnings ants into "zombies" by manipulating the insects' behavior to most effectively propagate spores.
What is the Ophiocordyceps genus? (Cordyceps is also an acceptable answer.)
The bacterium Acetobacter aceti is used in the production of this acidic condiment.
What is vinegar?
This scattering of light by colloidal particles can be explained by this effect.
What is the Tyndall effect?
What law states that the current through a conductor is directly proportional to the voltage across it?
Ohm's law
This scientist is credited for popularizing the practice of crop rotation in the 1930s amongst American farmers.
Who was George Washinton Carver?
Charles Darwin, a pioneer of evolutionary biology, had how many children with his first cousin?
10
This type of white blood cell specifically targets allergens and parasites.
What is an eosinophil?
Ascorbic acid is more commonly known by this term.
What is Vitamin C?
This is the formula for translational kinetic energy (motion of an object along a path).
KE = 0.5mv2
This mathematician was the first Black manager working for NASA.
Who was Dorothy Vaughan?
Crater Lake, Yellowstone, and California's Long Valley are all examples of this geological feature that forms after a collapse of land following a volcanic eruption.
What is a caldera?