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Famous Scientists
200

The organelle that directly synthesizes proteins in the cell.

What is the ribosome?

200
A bond that forms from the transfer of electrons from one atom to another, resulting in charged ions.

What is an ionic bond?

200
The mass times the acceleration of an object.
What is force?
200

Changes in global temperature and their large-scale impacts on weather.

What is climate change?

200

This scientists discovered the photoelectric effect.

Who is Albert Einstein?

400

The process in which glucose is consumed to produce energy within the cell.

What is cellular respiration?

400

The most electronegative element.

What is fluorine?

400

The energy derived from an object's relative position.

What is gravitational potential energy?

400

The element that undergoes nuclear fusion in our Sun.

What is hydrogen?

400

This scientist discovered radium, and was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for radioactivity research.

Who is Marie Curie?

600

The natural property in which higher biological levels exhibit properties unrelated to the properties of its parts.

What is emergence?

600

The amount of energy required to remove the FIRST electron from an atom.

What is the first ionization energy?

600

The center-seeking force during circular motion.

What is centripetal force?

600

Four examples of non-renewable energy.

What are coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear energy?

600

The two scientists considered the founding fathers of quantum theory.

Who are Niels Bohr and Max Planck?

800

The enzyme that unwinds DNA during replication.

What is helicase?

800

The movement of a gas through a small hole, and the name of the law that is used to model it.

What is effusion and Graham's Law of Effusion?

800

Formula for calculating kinetic energy.

What is (1/2)mv^2?

800

An event that drastically reduces the population size, and consequently the genetic diversity, of a population.

What is a genetic bottleneck?

800

This scientist is known for work in electromagnetism, and made the discovery of electromagnetic induction.

Who is Michael Faraday?

1000

The order of biological classification.

What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?

1000

The three types of titration reactions.

What are redox reactions, acid-base reactions, and precipitation reactions? (Credit for complexometric reactions)

1000

The law that states the squares of the periods of revolution are directly proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun.

What is Kepler's third law of planetary motion?

1000

The slight stretching of electromagnetic radiation due to a gravitational field.

What is redshift?

1000

This scientist discovered DNA's double helical structure through X-ray crystallography.

Who is Rosalind Franklin? (Also Maurice Wilkins)