Blood
The universal (erythrocyte) blood donor
What is Type O-?
What is heterozygous?
According to Boyle's law, increased volume leads to __ pressure?
What is decreased?
Maturation of frontal lobes does not fully develop until __.
What is... mid 20s? (Accept any age within this range)
The main site of amino acid deamination.
What is the liver?
The protein found in blood that maintains osmotic pressure
What is albumin?
The ratio of affected to unaffected offspring for an autosomal dominant disease, where the parent's alleles are:
Aa x aa
What is 1:1? (Also accept 50%, 2:2, 2/4, half half, etc.)
The substance produced via type II alveoli which coats the alveoli and reduces surface tension in the lungs.
What is pulmonary surfactant?
What is intimacy + commitment?
The classification for amino acids which CANNOT be converted into glucose
What is ketogenic?
The pathway that clotting factor VII would be activated in.
What is extrinsic pathway?
The type of inheritance usually shown with LOSS OF FUNCTION mutations.
What is autosomal recessive?
The term for any air that fills respiratory passageways but is not involved with gas exchange in the alveoli.
What is anatomical dead space?
The four types of parenting styles.
What is permissive, authoritative, authoritarian, and uninvolved?
These enzymes are responsible for forming alanine from pyruvate in muscle.
What is aminotransferase?
The leukocyte most involved in allergic reactions (production of histamine)
What is basophil?
The term for a dominant and fully penetrant mutant allele which causes a disease wherein the severity and expression vary considerably.
What is variable expressivity?
The calculation for vital capacity (total amount of exchangeable air in the lungs)
What is... TV + IRV + ERV?
Tidal volume + inspiratory reserve volume + expiratory reserve volume
The type of intelligence, according to Horn and Cattell, which is associated with accumulated knowledge and experience, and remains relatively stable with age.
What is crystallised intelligence?
This amino acid plays a role as both a NH₃ acceptor and a NH₃ donor in nitrogen metabolism.
What is glutamate?
The cofactor that binds clotting factors to phospholipid/negatively charged surfaces.
What is Ca2+?
The difference between mosaicism and chimerism.
What is...
Genetically different cells arising from the SAME zygote (mosaicism) vs genetically different cells arising from DIFFERENT zygotes / twin embryo fusion (chimerism)
When CO2 forms carbonic acid and H+ is liberated, this excites central chemoreceptors which stimulates the __ in the __.
What is... respiratory control center in the medulla?
The stage of postformal thinking which is associated with beginning to recognise that other points of view and "shades of grey" exist, however also potentially continuing to think that authority figures have the correct answer
What is multiplicity?
Fumarate, produced during the cleavage of argininosuccinate in the urea cycle, is also an intermediate of the citric acid cycle. Through a series of reactions, fumarate is converted into a metabolite that re-enters the urea cycle as a nitrogen donor.
Which three intermediates (in order) are formed from fumarate in this process?
What is malate, oxaloacetate, and aspartate?