General Chemistry
What is the name of the law stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another?
What is the law of thermodynamics?
What is the process by which the information in mRNA is used to synthesize a protein?
What is translation
What is the reaction mechanism of nucleophilic substitution?
What is the SN1 or SN2 mechanism
What is the SI unit of force?
What is the Newton?
Where did Taylor Swift film a music video on campus?
What is Central Library
What type of bond is formed when electrons are shared unequally between two atoms?
What is Polar Covalent Bond
What enzyme is responsible for unwinding the DNA double helix during replication?
What is a DNA helicase?
Name a reaction that converts an alkene to an alcohol
Hydration (or addition of water) in the presence of an acid catalyst
What term is used to describe the resistance of an object to a change in its state of motion or rest?
What is inertia?
What is Vanderbilt University's ranking in the U.S. News & World Report's National Universities category?
What is 18
What is the rate-determining step in a chemical reaction, and how does it affect the overall reaction rate?
What is the slowest step in a reaction mechanism, setting the pace for the entire reaction. It determines the overall rate of the reaction.
What cellular process involves the programmed cell death essential for development and preventing the proliferation of damaged cells?
What is apoptosis?
What is the common name for the compound CH3OH?
What is Methanol
What phenomenon occurs when a wave encounters an obstacle or passes through a narrow slit and spreads out?
What is diffraction
In 1873, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt founded the university at the request of his wife. How much money did he give to found the school?
What is $1,000,000
What are intermediates in a chemical reaction, and how do they contribute to the overall reaction process?
What is formed in the course of a reaction that are neither the reactants nor the final products. They may not appear in the overall balanced equation.
What enzyme is responsible for joining the Okazaki fragments on the lagging strand during DNA replication?
What is DNA ligase?
What is the name of the process where a molecule loses a small molecule, often water, when two functional groups combine to form a larger molecule?
What is a condensation reaction
What principle in physics states that two waves overlapping in space produce a resultant wave whose intensity is the sum of the intensities of the individual waves?
What is the principle of superposition?
In what year was Vanderbilt University founded?
What is 1873
What type of chemical reaction involves the combination of oxygen with a substance, often producing heat and light?
What is combustion?
What is the name of the DNA sequence where RNA polymerase initially binds to initiate transcription?
What is the promotor region?
Why is an E2 mechanism stereoselective?
An E2 mechanism is stereoselective because it necessitates an anti-periplanar arrangement of the hydrogen and leaving group during a concerted, single-step elimination. This selectivity arises from the backside attack of the nucleophile and the preference for the more stable, more substituted alkene.
What is the process in which a radioactive nucleus emits an alpha particle composed of two protons and two neutrons?
What is alpha decay
Which Pulitzer Prize-winning author graduated from Vanderbilt University?
What is James M. Buchanan?