Intro to bioengineering Midterm exam with correct answers

What's your definition of bioengineering/biomedical engineering? Use your own words to describe it. - answer: Bioengineering is an interdisciplinary profession that incorporates several branches of the natural sciences such as: Biology, chemistry and physics and provides knowledge through the engineering lens. List 5 biomedical engineering products that were not discussed in class. - answer: 1.)3D printed organs 2.)Surgical Robots 3.)portable prototype Ka-band microwave systems 4.)Regenerative medicine 5.)Telehealth If hydrogen bonds are much weaker than covalent bonds, why do you think they are used to hold biomolecules together? - answer: Primarily, the reason why hydrogen bonds are used to hold biomolecules together is because they are extremely strong when they are linked together. One of the materials that exemplifies this quality of hydrogen bonds is found in spider silk, which is composed from proteins that are hold together by these hydrogen bonds that gives it that high tensile strength. What is the structure of a nucleic acid? - answer: phosphate pentose organic base What is the structure a carbohydrate? - answer: CH2OH, Ch2OH OH OH,HO, What is the structure