Chemistry
This is the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, which determines what element it is.
What is the atomic number?
This double helix molecule carries genetic information in all living organisms.
What is DNA?
This is the unit used to measure force in the International System of Units.
What is a newton (or N)?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet" due to iron oxide on its surface.
What is Mars?
In "Minecraft," this explosive block's name comes from a real chemical compound with the formula C₃H₅N₃O₉.
What is TNT (or trinitrotoluene)?
When an acid and a base react together, they produce water and this type of compound.
What is a salt?
These are the four nitrogenous bases found in DNA: adenine, thymine, guanine, and this fourth one.
What is cytosine?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another, according to this fundamental law.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature, commonly used in thermometers before digital ones became popular.
What is mercury?
In "Subnautica," players must manage their oxygen supply while diving, which in real life dissolves in blood following this gas law discovered by an English chemist.
What is Henry's Law?
This type of bond forms when atoms share electrons, commonly found in molecules like water and methane.
What is a covalent bond?
This scientist proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection after observing finches on the Galápagos Islands.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This type of current is used in Australian homes and alternates direction 50 times per second.
What is alternating current (or AC)?
This Australian animal is one of only two mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
What is a platypus (or echidna)?
In "Pokémon," Electric-type moves are super effective against Water-types because water is a good conductor of this flow of charged particles.
What is electricity (or electric current/electrons)?
On the pH scale, pure water has this neutral value at 25 degrees Celsius.
What is 7?
A change in the DNA sequence is called this, and it can be caused by errors during DNA replication or environmental factors like UV radiation.
What is a mutation?
The transfer of thermal energy through electromagnetic waves without needing a medium is called this, which is how the Sun's energy reaches Earth.
What is radiation (or thermal radiation)?
This phenomenon, where the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, can only occur during a new moon phase.
What is a solar eclipse?
In "Assassin's Creed," the Animus supposedly reads genetic memory stored in this molecule that carries hereditary information in all living organisms.
What is DNA (or deoxyribonucleic acid)?
This law states that in a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed, meaning the total mass of reactants equals the total mass of products.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
This is the complete set of genetic material in an organism, and the Human one Project finished mapping all 3 billion base pairs in 2003.
What is a genome?
When white light passes through a prism and separates into its component colours, this process is occurring due to different wavelengths bending by different amounts
What is dispersion (or refraction)?
This Australian scientist won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that most stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria, not stress or spicy food
Who is Barry Marshall?
In "Kerbal Space Program," achieving orbit requires reaching this velocity where centripetal force equals gravitational force, approximately 7.8 km/s for Earth.
What is orbital velocity?