Biology
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum is named rough because it possesses what cellular structures?
What are ribosomes?
What are the names for positive and negative ions, respectively?
What are cations and anions?
What is the scientific term for a change in velocity per unit time?
What is acceleration
What is the common name for the joint that is formed by the articulation of the tibia, the fibula, and the femur?
What is the knee
This famous scientist developed the Theory of Relativity
Who is Albert Einstein?
How many autosomes are in a normal nucleated human nerve cell in G-zero of the cell cycle?
What are 44?
Element number 19 has an isotope named potassium-40. How many neutrons does the isotope contain?
What is 21?
What is the most common term in physics for the product of mass times velocity?
What is momentum
What area of the human brain has the most influence on heart rate, sleep, body temperature, and metabolism?
What is the hypothalamus?
This famous scientist is a Pittsburgh native who wrote the book Silent Spring advancing the global environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
What is the most appropriate term for the genetic character of an organism having a pair of identical alleles for a certain trait?
What is homozygous?
What is the term used to describe the resistance to flow of a liquid?
What is viscosity?
What condition is the average velocity equal to the average of an object's initial and final velocity?
What is only when the acceleration is constant?
What specific ion is the most central to muscle contraction in striated human muscle?
What is calcium? (Ca2+)
This famous scientist is known as the father of modern chemistry as developed gas laws
Who is Robert Boyle?
Most of the molecular oxygen in Earth's atmosphere came from what biological process?
What is photosynthesis?
If two solutions that are separated by a semipermeable membrane have the same osmotic pressure, they are said to be:
What is isotonic?
What is the mass, in kilograms, of a 5-kilogram rock on a plant with a gravitational acceleration on-half that of the Earth's?
What is 5?
In humans, the action potential of a neuron is most dependent on the transmembrane movement of what two ions?
What are sodium and potassium?
This famous scientist is best know for his contribution to the understanding of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
In mammals, the action potential of a neuron is most dependent on the transmembrane movement of what two ions?
What are sodium and potassium?
What is the name for the phenomenon that occurs when a light beam becomes visible after passing through a colloid, an example of which is a beam of light passing through fog at night?
What is the Tyndall Effect
Ignoring air resistance, wind velocity, and the rotation of the Earth, if a projectile is fired directly upward, the horizontal component of the projectile's velocity:
What is zero
In humans, backflow of blood from the ventricles into the atria during contraction is prevented primarily by what structure?
What is a valve?
This famous scientist established classical mechanics and is known for formulating the laws of motion and universal gravitation
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?