I have quizzes in both my General Biology and Microbiology classes tomorrow. I’m told that there will certainly be a question on the Micro quiz asking students to draw a virus and indicate certain proteins or other elements, such as membranes and genomic material. Just as my General Bio students are certainly expecting a question about chemiosmosis and the enzyme responsible for synthesizing ATP.

Students from both classes are probably more interested to find what movie or artist or governmental office I’ll be asking my extra credit question about. If they’re under about 30, they probably think a classic horror from 1980 isn’t worth watching. But they’d be wrong.