Properties of Life
A property that may also apply to your sock drawer.
What is order/organization?
The 'powerhouses of the cell'.
What are the mitochondria?
What are carbohydrates?
These ocean critters can have 'feet' made up of fool's gold -- which doesn't melt, even in their incredibly hot homes!
What is a scaly-foot gastropod?
I'm from this city! 21 years, born and raised.
What is Chicago, IL?
A property that allows an organisms to make two of itself, and those two to make four, and so on.
What is reproduction?
An organelle responsible for keeping DNA safe and sound to be used for transcription and translation.
What is the nucleus?
The body's tool for storing energy for the long-term, or creating membranes to separate processes.
What are lipids?
You may have it if you experience polydipsia, polyuria, and polyphagia -- just to name a few!
What is diabetes?
I'm currently attending this university for my doctorate!
What is SDSU?
The process in which food is broken down into usable energy.
What is metabolism/energy processing?
Ribosomes make their homes on this rough organelle.
What is the rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Versatile tools that can be enzymes, receptors, or even machines to make more of themselves.
What are proteins?
An important process that we all do, and can be split into four stages: N1, N2, N3, and REM.
What is sleep?
This is my specific area of expertise! It's a real hot field these days.
What is fire ecology?
A property that allows an organism to adapt to adverse or specific conditions over several generations.
What is evolution?
This small, oft-forgotten organelle is single-membraned, but is able to turn cellular toxins into H2O2.
What is a peroxisome?
What is a nucleic acid?
These strange mimics of the sea are sometimes referred to as 'crab hypnotists'.
What are cuttlefish?
What is Pacific Overtures?
This is what allows organisms to perceive their environment and make decisions based on their surroundings.
What is response to stimuli/sensitivity?
This sleek organelle is responsible for modifying lipids before they are sent to the golgi body for transport.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
What are lipids?
An enzyme that converts codeine into morphine when it passes through the liver.
What is CYP2D6?
This is one of my favorite music genres: Japan's answer to the American funk music of the 70s and 80s with always Stay With Me, through every Windy Summer right up until the Last Goodbye.
What is City Pop?
(all of those are great songs by the way just saying!!!)