the Dunce/Genius game

[thawoods]

The poster presents a term (can be a word or a phrase). The next poster then, (according to his knowledge) must explain the term posted and then present a new term. If he could not explain, he must answer "dunce" and repeat the item posted. Let's get it started:


homeostasis

[Insertnamehere]

The maintenance of the stable internal conditions of an organism (pH, temperature, osmolarity, etc) and the regulation processes aiming towards that goal

Aldol condensation

[thawoods]

dunce

aldol condensation

[Insertnamehere]

skill and a war god?...sounds a whole lot like our motto "by reason or force"

I suppose it's something along the lines, "with skill and/or force"

Rzhev meat grinder

[thawoods]

Rzhev meat grinder - a meat grinder invented by Mr. Rzhev..... XD

glomerulus

[Insertnamehere]

The group of kidney cells and blood vessels where the initial blood flitration occurs, the first step towards urine production and the control of fluids and electrolites

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

[thawoods]

separation of mixtures/solutions/colloids via a piece of paper (they let it stand for a time until the stuff climb up the piece of paper), using more advanced technological tools

Hatshepsut

[Insertnamehere]

separation of mixtures/solutions/colloids via a piece of paper (they let it stand for a time until the stuff climb up the piece of paper), using more advanced technological tools

Not on a piece of paper and cannot be colloids, they have to be soluble samples.

Female paraoh on some bloody Ancient Egypt dinasty...they had too many of those to remember


Georgy Zhukov

[thawoods]

Georgy Zhukov

dunce

[Insertnamehere]

benzine, gas, naphta, petroleum derivates, whatever you choose to call it, a mix of hydrocarbons, mostly heptane and octane obtained from petroleum distillation...and you know...makes cars go and shit

RuBisCO (selective capitalization is intentional)