Some terms
Bodily structure
What is anatomy?
Body temperature, pulse rate and respiration are used to represent this
What are vital signs?
These substances may cause the cell to lyse, stop mitosis and activate apoptosis.
What is cytotoxicity?
A condition where the number of red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout the body is decreased.
What is anemia?
Mucus is abnormally thick in this disease.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This change results in more change in the same direction.
What is positive feedback?
A deletion of three nucleotides causes this autosomally recessive inherited disease.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This structure helps move large substances that are not able to enter or leave a cell
What is the cell membrane?
With this mutation, water ions cannot move and mucus gets sticky outside the cell
What is the mutant CFTR channel?
You get all your mitochondria from this parent
What is the mother?
The chemical processes in a living cell to maintain life
What is metabolism?
A mutation in the DNA for this organelle mainly affects children and can lead to seizures, strokes and severe developmental delays
What are mitochondria?
Binding with other cells on the membrane, sticking
What is cell adhesion?
A point mutation results in this autosomally inherited disease.
What is sickle cell anemia?
Because of this disease, crescent cells clump and can get stuck in the capillaries
What is sickle cell anemia?
Changing absorbed materials into different materials that can be used
What is assimilation?
a condition where there is low sodium concentration in the blood
What is hyponatremia?
These cells carry oxygen throughout the body.
What are red blood cells?
This disease is caused by a frameshift mutation in the Beta-hexosaminidase gene
What is Tay-Sachs disease?
A specialized cell or group of cells that respond to a signal
What is a receptor?
An initial change away from the set point stimulates a response that reverses the initial change (FROM: Breathing Lab protocol, Waldron)
What is negative feedack?
This is the amount of a substance that will kill 50% of the test subjects
What is the LD50?
This organelle is responsible for digesting food and breaking down lipids
What are lysosomes?
This type of mutation comes from an addition or a deletion of 1 or 2 nucleotides
What is a frameshift mutation?
Insulin production regulates blood sugar in this way.
What is negative feedback?