Homeostasis
The target or ideal parameter value
What is a set point?
What are protons and neutrons?
The organelle that bears DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The starting materials of a chemical equation.
What are reactants?
Small membrane bound organelle associated with transport and protein storage.
What are vesicles?
It drives the parameter further away from the set point.
What is a positive feedback loop?
Occurs when energy is released when chemical bonds are broken.
What is hydrolysis?
The process converting RNA to protein.
What is translation?
The location where a substrate binds to an enzyme.
What is an active site?
Produces chemical energy through cellular respiraition.
What is the mitochondria?
A type of signal that includes hormones and other molecules.
What is a chemical signal?
This type of ion has a negative charge.
What are anions?
Enzyme responsible for unwinding DNa, stabilizing unwound DNA, and promoting DNA nucleotide base pairings (T/A and C/g)
What is DNA polymerase?
Largely inorganic atoms (like Mg^2+)
What are cofactors?
The liquid portion that holds organelles and cellular structures.
What is the cytoplasm?
A type of signal also known as action potentials or impulses.
What are electrochemical signals?
The most common buffer in physiology.
What is bicarbonate?
A type of bulk transport that brings specific molecules into the cell.
What is receptor mediated endocytosis?
The four steps to aerobic respiration.
What is glycolysis, intermediate step, krebs cycle, and electron transport chain?
Immovable cytoplasm extensions that increase surface area for absorbtion and secretion.
What is microvilli?
The type of feedback loop occurs during tissue repair.
What are positive feedback loops?
Results from the buildup of acids (ketones) produced by the breakdown of fats.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
Transport of a molecule depends on a concentration gradient established by the transport of a different molecule.
What is secondary active transport?
Occurs when elections are lost.
What is oxidation?
Nonspecific endocytosis of extracellular fluid and large molecules.
What is pinocytosis?