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BMS 300 Exam 1 (Colorado State
University)

Affinity (with reference to hormone receptors) - ANS-a difference in fees is created between the
hormone receptor and the hormone

Aquaporins - ANS-Water-Selective Channels

Are Phospholipids Amphipathic? - ANS-Yes. They have hydrophobic areas and hydrophilic
areas

Autocrine - ANS-A cell releases a hormone which it then responds to itself (cellular has a
hormone receptor to respond to its personal hormone)

Binding Pockets - ANS-Formed when proteins shape tertiary protein systems; R-agencies form
a limited area of 3D form

Bones include ________ which secrete _________ - ANS-Osteocytes; Hydroxyapatite

Cadheren - ANS-transmembrane proteins that link desmosomes in adjacent cells (facet to side)

Chondrocytes - ANS-Cells which secrete collagen and make up cartilage

Chromosomes - ANS-The shape that DNA is prepared into in eukaryotes

Cis-Golgi - ANS-the pinnacle piece of the golgi apparatus which gets incoming materials

Connective Tissue - ANS-Scattered cells embedded in a protein matrix which they secrete

Connexon - ANS-Protein which spans the gap between cells inside a GAP junction

Connexons are ________ channels - ANS-hydrophilic

Desmosome - ANS-anchoring junctions between cells in epithelial tissues

Dipole Moment - ANS-The distinction in rate between atoms in a water molecule

Dissociation Constant (Kd) - ANS-Concentration of hormones at which 1/2 of the receptors are
certain to hormones

, DNA Helicase - ANS-Unwinds DNA via breaking the hydrogen bonds among nitrogenous bases

DNA Polymerase - ANS-Reads DNA and assembles nitrogenous bases to create a
complimentary strand

DNA strands are orientated in ________ directions; they are _________ - ANS-Opposite;
antiparallel

Each Connexion is composed of ___ connexins - ANS-six

Each deoxyribose in a strand of DNA is ________ related to a nitrogenous base -
ANS-Covalently

Endocrine - ANS-Secreted hormones input the blood to be carried to a hormone receptor
someplace a long way away

Endocytosis - ANS-the procedure of substances being taken into the cellular (occurs in
macrophages)

Endoplasmic Reticulum - ANS-an intracellular bag with ribosomes attached, inspite of the
nuclear membrane

Endosymbiosis of Mitochondria - ANS-Theory that a eukaryote absorbed a mitochondria and it
escaped from the vesicle, and remained in the cellular. Evolved to be part of eukaryotic cells.

Epithelia - ANS-A continuous layer of cells that sit on a basil lamina of extracellular proteins

Ester Bond - ANS-Happens when a fatty acid and a glycerol molecule bond

Exocrine Glands - ANS-ducts in the pores and skin that attain the floor and secrete oil and other
materials

Exocytosis - ANS-fusion of the vesicular membrane to the plasma membrane

Exons - ANS-Regions of mRNA which might be expressed inside the resulting protein

Fibrocytes - ANS-Cells that form the connective tissue of the epidermis

Filamentous Actin - ANS-polymer of globular actin (G-actin)

GAP Junctions - ANS-Junctions among cells used for conversation

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