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Ashley Brown
Human Physiology week 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The relatively constant state maintained by the body is known as | Homeostasis |
| The body naturally changes some set points to different values at different times of the day. These daily cyles are called | Circadian rhythm |
| Effectors can be described as | organs that directly influence controlled physiological variables. |
| The concept that information may flow ahead to another process to trigger a change in anticipation of an event that will follow is called | Feed forward |
| A structural lipid found in the cell membrane is a: | Phospholipid |
| The term glycoprotein, a combination of two words, tells you that the compound is made of _____, with _____ being the dominant component. | carbohydrate and protein; protein |
| Which energy-releasing or energy-transferring molecule does not contain a nucleotide? | Creatinine phosphate |
| The formation of sucrose involves the removal of a molecule of water. This is called: | Dehydration synthesis |
| During which stage of mitosis do the centrioles move to the opposite poles of the cell? | Prophase |
| Which is true about the sodium and potassium pump? | Three sodium ions are taken out of the cell. |
| The pairing of bases of a strand of DNA is obligatory. If a strand of DNA were composed of the base sequence of ATCG, what would be the obligatory sequence of its opposing base pairs? | TAGC |
| The cells responsible for active erosion of bone minerals are called: | Osteoclast |
| Normally, bone loss will begin to exceed bone gain between the ages of _____ years. | 35 and 40 |