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Bushong Chapter 29- Radiobiology

Deterministic effect - answer Radiation response increases in severity; occurs within
days after exposure

Stochastic effect - answer Not noticed for months/years; incidence of radiation response
increases with increasing dose

What is radiobiology? - answer The study of the effects of ionizing radiation on biologic
tissue

What is the cell theory ? - answer Cells are the basic functional units in all plants and
animals.

What do macromolecules consist of? - answer Proteins, lipids, carbohydrate, nucleic
acids

Very large molecules that sometimes consist of hundreds of thousands of atoms –
answer Macromolecules

What is the most critical and radio sensitive target molecule? – answer DNA

What is the most simplest and abundant molecule? - answerWater

What is the term for breaking down into smaller units? - answerCatabolism

What is the term for the production of large molecules from small ones? -
answerAnabolism

What is the chief function of carbohydrates in the body? - answerTo provide fuel for cell
metabolism

What is the radiation sensitive target molecule ? - answerDNA

What are the purines? - answerAdenine and guanine

What are the pyramidines? - answerThymine and cytosine

Which base bindings are allowed in DNA? - answerAdenine-thymine and cytosine-
guanine

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