Cellular Secrets
Darwin Would Be Proud
Lab Legends
Biology Baddies
Pop Culture Pop Quiz
100
Protects the mRNA from degradation in eukaryotic cells.
What is the 5' cap?
100
The Loss of responsiveness to unimportant stimuli.
What is Habituation?
100
The stop that you use when pipetting to expel all of the liquid.
What is the second stop?
100
The resident avian biologist.
Who is Dr. Covino?
100
The name of this Diva.
Who is Nina?
200
This gene detects damaged DNA and recruits DNA repairing enzymes.
What is the p53 gene?
200
The learned movement relative to landmarks.
What is Piloting?
200
The technique that is used to isolate bacterial colonies.
What is streak plating?
200
The current chair of the biology department.
Who is Dr. Lum?
200
The iconic scientist that is coming to LMU this week.
Who is Bill Nye?
300
Multiple histones with DNA wrapped around it
What is a Solenoid?
300
The concept that describes how mitochondria and chloroplasts became organelles in eukaryotes.
What is the endosymbiotic theory?
300
The ethanol that we use to sterilize our lab benches.
What is 70% ethanol?
300
Name that freshman biology TA (first and last name)!
Ryan Seifi
300
In Grey’s Anatomy, this person screams the iconic line “somebody sedate me” after being unable to stop crying.
Who is Christina Yang?
400
The place blood travels through after coming back from the lungs and body.
What is the pulmonary vein?
400
The forces of evolution include gene flow, natural selection, mutation and what other force.
What is genetic drift?
400
The color of the anode that DNA moves toward during gel electrophoresis.
What is red?
400
The biology professor that is from South Africa.
Who is Dr. Drennan?
400
The name of Trisha Paytas’ husband.
Who is Moses?
500
This critical checkpoint ensures homologous chromosomes are properly paired and recombined before progressing to metaphase I.
What is the Prophase 1 Checkpoint?
500
The postzygotic Reproductive Isolating Mechanism interspecies hybrid are viable, but sterile.
What is Reduced Hybrid Fertility?
500
The three steps of PCR (in order).
What is denature, anneal and extend?
500
The professor that does research on coyotes eating cats.
Who is Dr. Strauss?
500
The name of Ash Trevino’s song featuring Santos.
What is NUNU?