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Define mutation - Answer a random change in an allele Mutations are caused by selective pressure in the environment. True or False - Answer False The same mutation could be advantageous in some environments but deleterious in others. True or False - Answer True The appearance of dark-colored volcanic rock caused the mutation from black fur to appear in the rock pocket mouse population? True or False - Answer False Both DNA and RNA contain... - Answer phosphate groups ...

Macronutrients - Answer nutrients that are required in large quantities - major elements in cell macromolecules (C, O, H, N, P, S) - ions necessary for protein function (Mg^2+, Ca^2+, Fe^2+, K^+) What are the 6 macronutrients that make up carbs, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins of the cell? - Answer carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur What are the 4 macronutrients that are cations and serve as cofactors? - Answer Mg^2+, Fe^2+, K^+, Ca^2+ Cofactor -...

NURS 3110 test 2 Questions With Complete Solutions

What are the steps of respiration? (following O2 and then following CO2) - Answer 1) O2 from Environment air to the lung 2) Transport of O2 from the lung to the blood 3) Transport of O2 from blood to the tissue 4) Transport of O2 from the tissue to the mitochondria where cellular respiration takes place -Following CO2 is just the exact opposite starting with the decarboxylation in the TCA cycle external respiration - Answer exchanging O2/CO2 between air in lungs and blood gas trans...

thymus - Answer site of t-cell development bone marrow - Answer site of b-cell development and selection secondary lymphoid organs - Answer spleen, lymph nodes, adenoids, tonsil, thoracic duct, appendix, peyer's patch cytokines - Answer molecules secreted by one cell acting on another "hormones" of the immune system effects of cytokines - Answer fever, swelling, recruitment of cells, amplification of immune response chemokines - Answer cytokines that st...

What are the definitions of anatomy and physiology? - Answer anatomy: the study of body structures, their shape/form defines their function physiology: the study of body function; keeps body at set pt - the two are intertwined 6 basic life processes - Answer 1. Metabolism 2. Responsiveness 3. Movement 4. Growth 5. Differentiation/specialization 6. Reproduction(of genes) 2M, 2R, GD metabolism - Answer the sum of all chemical processes that occur in the body - catabolism:...

Microbe - Answer living organism that requires a microscope to be seen Groups of microbes - Answer bacteria, viruses, fungi, archaea, protozoan Criteria of microbes - Answer - range in size from millimeters to 0.2 micrometers - some consist of single cell (exceptions, but majority) - each contains, in its genome, capacity to reproduce its own kind (doesn't apply to viruses) Exceptions to microbial criteria - Answer - not all microbes are microscopic - not all microbes ...

Confucius - Answer (551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history. Axial Age - Answer A period of history (around 600 BCE) when a lot of religious leaders and thinkers came about, "Turning Point" Second-Generation societies - Answer emerged in India, China, and Mediterranean Europe. These societies built on the foundations of their ancestors but made a crucial NEXT STEP into a new phase ...

NURS 3110 Auburn University -NURS 3110: iClicker Exam #3 Questions With Complete Solutions

3 broad functions of nervous system - Answer Sensory input Integration Motor output 2 different integration functions in the body - Answer 1. nervous (rapid; msecs) 2. endocrine (slower; sec, min, hours, days, months, years) - Lots of overlap between nervous and endocrine system what is the only cell type of the nervous system? - Answer neuron - initiates and transmits stimuli - Different kind of neurons STRUCTURALLY and Functionally - functionally: Sensory-afferent (PNS):...