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What are the 3 different branches of life? - Answer-1) Bacteria 2) Archaea 3) Eukaryotes What are the similarities between bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes? - Answer-1) Basic Biochemistry 2) Genetic code 3) Membrane ATPase 4) Ribosome What are the similarities between Bacteria and Archaea? - Answer-1) No nucleus or organelles 2) Coupled transcription and translation What are the similarities between Archaea and Eukaryotes? - Answer-Similar machinery for handling information (e.g. ribo...

In his graduation speech, David Foster Wallace argued that only religious people worship something. True? False? - Answer-True What is the best description of Michael Himes' understanding of "God" in Doing the Truth in Love? Absolute Mystery A Higher Power The Blind Clockmaker The Supreme Being The Big Man Upstairs - Answer-Absolute Mystery According to James Martin, what is the most popular "spiritual option" in America? Religious but not Spiritual Catholic Secular or Unaffilia...

How many bones are in the axial skeleton? - Answer-80 How many bones are in the appendicular skeleton? - Answer-126 What is the axial skeleton composed of? - Answer-Skull, vertebral column, & thorax List some main functions of the axial skeleton: - Answer-* Supports & protects internal organs * Supports upper body weight, transferring to lower limbs * Attachments for skeletal muscles What is the appendicular skeleton composed of? - Answer-*Upper & lower limbs *Pectoral & pelvic girdles L...

1) What is desensitization? 2) What kind of cell receptors can this happen to? - Answer-1) When a cell decreases the amount of receptors on its surface to decrease the amount of response that the cell has to a ligand/stimulus 2) Can happen to any cell surface signalling receptor How is the endocytic pathway mediated? - Answer-Clathrin based endocytosis Describe the endocytic pathway in a stepwise fashion - Answer-1) Plasma membrane breaks off into free floating vesicles in the cytoplasm 2...

The fluidity of a biological membrane goes down when? - Answer-vander wals interaction between membrane lipids are increased Morphology - Answer-form-science phylogeny - Answer-tribe source Members of prokaryotes - Answer-Bacteria and archaea Members of Eukarotes - Answer-Eukarya Do Eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells have a membrane bound nucleus? - Answer-Eukaryotic What does a prokaryotic chromosome look like? - Answer-Single circular chromosome Where does epithilial tissue get its streng...

What is Fick's Law? What influences diffusion - Answer-The molar flux due to diffusion is proportional to the concentration gradient F=kA((c1-c2)/d)) - Answer-F is rate of diffusion K is diffusion constant A is surface area for diffusion D id distance for diffusion (ex: membrane thickness) C1-C2 is difference in concentration How does the diffusion of uncharged and charged particles differ? - Answer-Uncharged particles diffuse irrespective of the concentration of each other. Charged par...

Reasons for Learning Database Technology - Answer-1) Knowledge of whether a database will facilitate the development of a new business initiative 2) Must be able to construct information from data found in databases 3) Evaluation of a data model may be required when change is needed for a database 4) Creation of a database may be needed in the future What is the Purpose of a Database? - Answer-Keeps track of data with multiple themes What is a Database? - Answer-tables or files + relations...

sensation - how sensory receptors receive and represent stimulus energies from the environment Perception - how we organize and interpret the sensory information, drawing meaning from the world around us neuron - a cell that conducts electrochemical signals and is the basic unit of the nervous system synesthesia - stimulation of one sense triggers another (feeling colors) Interneurons (association neurons) - neurons that carry messages from motor to sensory nerves myelin sheath - prevents ...

what nutrients are needed in higher amounts during pregnancy? - Answer-Folate, calcium, and iron should be supplemented before and during pregnancy. Vitamin b12 and vitamin D may be supplemented as needed what are guidelines for alcohol consumption during pregnancy - Answer-there is no safe level of alcohol consumption at any point during a pregnancy what are guidelines for caffeine during pregnancy - Answer-less than 200 mg a day (less than 16oz) are considered safe what are the guidelin...