HHSC
This organ filters blood and removes waste in the form of urine.
What is the kidney?
The basic building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
The process by which DNA is copied into RNA.
What is transcription?
This building houses the LMU Biology, Chemistry, HHSC, and Environmental Science Departments.
What is the Featherston Life Sciences Building?
The functional unit of the kidney.
What is the nephron?
This bond forms between two amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
This molecule carries genetic information from DNA to ribosomes for protein synthesis.
What is mRNA?
The principle that allele pairs separate during gamete formation.
What is Mendel's Law of Segregation?
This is Dr. Dahlquist's favorite holiday.
What is Halloween?
This part of the brain controls coordination and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
The storage form of glucose in animals.
What is glycogen?
This phase of mitosis is when chromosomes align in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
This structure protects the ends of chromosomes from degradation.
What are telomeres?
This equipment is used to sterilize media and glassware using pressurized steam.
What is an autoclave?
This organ produces the hormone insulin.
What is the pancreas?
Enzyme activity can be regulated through this type of inhibition where a product binds to the enzyme's allosteric site.
What is feedback inhibition?
These proteins speed up chemical reactions by lowering activation energy.
What are enzymes?
A mutation that substitutes one nucleotide for another without changing the amino acid is called this.
What is a silent mutation?
This is where you go when you need to grab more reagents, glassware, and/or other supplies.
What is the stockroom?
This type of muscle tissue is involuntary and found in walls of hollow organs.
What is smooth muscle?
In glycolysis, one molecule of glucose produces this many net ATP molecules.
What is two?
In plants, the Calvin cycle takes place in this part of the chloroplast.
What is the stroma?
During meiosis, homologous chromosomes exchange segments in this process.
What is crossing over?
One of this professor's research interests includes the "whole life-cycle biology of migratory birds."
Who is Dr. Covino?