Motion
A quantity that represents one term of movement (Example: speed)
What is a scalar quantity?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
Derived from the Czech word "Robota", which means servitude, forced labor
The total momentum of all objects before a collision is the same as the total momentum of all objects after a collision due to this scientific law.
What is the Law of Conservation of Momentum?
23 pairs for a total of 46
What is the number of chromosomes in each cell?
A vector quantity that measures speed and direction.
What is velocity?
Who are Dr. James Watson and Francis Crick?
Heron of Alexandria
Who is the designer of the first automated programmable machine in 60 AD?
The underlying principle of all roller coasters, which states that energy can only change form but cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Principle of Conservation of Energy?
Specific sections of DNA containing the code or recipe to make a specific protein
What are genes?
Objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by another force
What is Newton's 1st Law of Motion or the Law of Inertia?
The four nucleotides that combine to create 20 amino acids in the cells.
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine?
The measure of how much matter an object or body contains and not affected by where you are in the universe
What is mass?
The point on a roller coaster when gravitational potential energy is greatest.
What is the highest point on a roller coaster?
"Molecular scissors" that will cut DNA when they recognize an exact sequence
What are restriction enzymes?
According to Newton's 2nd law of motion, this measurement is equal to mass times acceleration.
What is force?
Where DNA is housed
What is the cell nucleus?
Sensors, Actuators and Processors
What are the 3 major components of a robot?
The cause of momentum to move from one object to another.
What is a collision?
The process developed in the 1970s that uses electricity to separate DNA fragments by size as they migrate through a gel matrix.
What is gel electrophoresis?
What is action?
The father of modern genetics, an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments w/ pea plants in his garden.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The ability to add parts to a robot so that it can be updated
What is modular?
Energy in motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
DNA inherited from the mother only, unlike nuclear DNA which is inherited from both mother and father
What is Mitochondrial DNA?