Famous Animals in Science
The physicist Schrödinger designed a quantum theory thought experiment involving this animal.
What is a cat?
According to Newton’s First Law of Motion, an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by this.
What is an external force (or unbalanced force)?
This metric unit is commonly used to measure the volume of a liquid and is equivalent to one cubic centimeter.
What is a milliliter?
This Mnemonic is used to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow.
What is ROY G BIV?
"Pass me the NaCl" will get you this.
What is (table) salt?
The first cloned animal was a sheep with this name.
Who is Dolly?
This type of force, directed towards the center of a circular path, keeps an object moving in a circular motion.
What is a centripetal force?
This type of quantity has both magnitude and direction, such as velocity
What is a vector?
Plants need light to create energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Using carbon dioxide and water, plants produce this form of sugar.
What is glucose?
What species was Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth?
What is a dog?
This phenomenon, caused by the Earth’s rotation, deflects the paths of winds and ocean currents.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This is a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a solution, often used to assess water quality.
What is pH?
This organelle gives plants their green color.
What are chloroplasts?
The reason we have so many different types of herbs and spices.
What is biodiversity?
Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands. This animal played a key role in the development of his theory of natural selection.
What are Finches?
The ocean floor sinks through a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle through this process.
What is subduction?
Named after a famous physicist, this is the unit for a force.
What are Newtons?
299,792,458 meters per second
What is the speed of light?
This macromolecule, made of amino acids, plays a key role in nearly every cellular process, from enzyme function to structure and signaling.
What is a protein?
Koko, a gorilla who befriended Mr. Rogers, was able to communicate this way.
What is sign-language?
The acceleration due to gravity close to the Earth is approximately this number in SI units.
What is 9.8 m/s2 ?
Not to be confused with a furry animal, this unit is used to express the amounts of reactants and the amounts of products in a chemical reaction.
What is a mole?
In atomic spectroscopy, this phenomenon occurs when an electron in an excited state returns to a lower energy level and emits a photon.
What is emission (or an emission spectrum)?
In enzymatic reactions, these molecules, often vitamins or minerals, assist enzymes by stabilizing the transition state and lowering activation energy.
What are cofactors or coenzymes?