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NUR555 week one Questions & 100%
Correct Answers
What are the primary modes of chemical signaling? (5)
✓ :~~ paracrine, horemonal, neurohormonal, neurotransmitter, contact-
dependent
What are the eight chief cellular functions?
✓ :~~ movement, conduction, absorption, secretion, excretion, respiration,
reproduction and communication
How does the starling law effect patient presentation?
✓ :~~ dehydration increases heartrate
Does poor ventilation create metabolic acidosis or alkalosis?
✓ :~~ metabolic acidosis (caused by)
What are chromosome aneuploidies?
✓ :~~ when there is only one of a pair of chromosomes
How is fragile X syndrome inherited?
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✓ :~~ from the birth mother
What is DNA methylation?
✓ :~~ when genes are inactivated; happens more over time and with
stressors
what are the only type of cells that are not somatic?
✓ :~~ sex cells
What is the centrosome?
✓ :~~ contains centrioles and pericentroles that are essential for cell division
What does the Endoplasmic reticulum do?
✓ :~~ synthesizes proteins and other materials
What makes "rough" endoplasmic reticulum "rough"
✓ :~~ Ribosomes
what is the Golgi complex?
✓ :~~ where the ER sends proteins/materials to be released
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3 main steps of cellular respiration
✓ :~~ glycolysis (produces ATP), and the citric acid cycle, oxidative
phosphorylation (electron transport chain),
where does cellular respiration take place
✓ :~~ in mitochondria
How many ATP molecules are produced from one glucose molecule?
✓ :~~ 38 ATP molecules
RNA polymerase does what?
✓ :~~ unzips DNA to allow mRNA trascription
does translation or transcription come first?
✓ :~~ Transcription creates mRNA, translation creates protein from amino
acids
how many types of amino acids?
✓ :~~ 20
what is a Condon?
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NUR555 week one Questions & 100%
Correct Answers
What are the primary modes of chemical signaling? (5)
✓ :~~ paracrine, horemonal, neurohormonal, neurotransmitter, contact-
dependent
What are the eight chief cellular functions?
✓ :~~ movement, conduction, absorption, secretion, excretion, respiration,
reproduction and communication
How does the starling law effect patient presentation?
✓ :~~ dehydration increases heartrate
Does poor ventilation create metabolic acidosis or alkalosis?
✓ :~~ metabolic acidosis (caused by)
What are chromosome aneuploidies?
✓ :~~ when there is only one of a pair of chromosomes
How is fragile X syndrome inherited?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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✓ :~~ from the birth mother
What is DNA methylation?
✓ :~~ when genes are inactivated; happens more over time and with
stressors
what are the only type of cells that are not somatic?
✓ :~~ sex cells
What is the centrosome?
✓ :~~ contains centrioles and pericentroles that are essential for cell division
What does the Endoplasmic reticulum do?
✓ :~~ synthesizes proteins and other materials
What makes "rough" endoplasmic reticulum "rough"
✓ :~~ Ribosomes
what is the Golgi complex?
✓ :~~ where the ER sends proteins/materials to be released
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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3 main steps of cellular respiration
✓ :~~ glycolysis (produces ATP), and the citric acid cycle, oxidative
phosphorylation (electron transport chain),
where does cellular respiration take place
✓ :~~ in mitochondria
How many ATP molecules are produced from one glucose molecule?
✓ :~~ 38 ATP molecules
RNA polymerase does what?
✓ :~~ unzips DNA to allow mRNA trascription
does translation or transcription come first?
✓ :~~ Transcription creates mRNA, translation creates protein from amino
acids
how many types of amino acids?
✓ :~~ 20
what is a Condon?
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
