Microbiome
Human Digestion and Metabolism
Immune System
Biophysics
Potpourri
100

The human microbiome is composed of bacteria, fungi, archaea, eukaryotes, and?

Viruses

100

What two major chemical processes make up human metabolism?

Anabolism and catabolism

100

Immune cells are typically named after what type of color?

White

100

The movement of substances from high to low without the use of ATP

Diffusion

100

The term used for the formation of new oocytes

oogenesis

200

Which human microbiome is the most studied?

Gut microbiome

200

This organelle is responsible for the bulk of carbohydrate catabolism

The mitochondria

200

The two major divisions of the immune system are?

Innate and adaptive
200

If volume goes up, then pressure must…?

Decrease

200

This hormone is considered the stress hormone

Cortisol

300

This process takes gut microbiota from a healthy person, and is given to a sick person as a therapeutic

Fecal microbial transplantation

300

This is the precursor molecule to trypsin

Trypsinogen

300

The name for specific features of cell/tissue damage which cues immune cell recruitment and function

DAMPs

300

If net filtration rate is positive, it favors

Filtration

300

The aortic valve has how many cusps?

Three

400

During human development, the gut microbiome is relatively unstable until when?

After the first 1,000 days of life

400

This process moves food back and forth in the stomach until it is small enough to pass the pyloric sphincter

Propulsion and retropulsion

400

This transcription factor promotes Treg generation

Foxp3

400

This law suggests that the amount of dissolved gas in a liquid is directly proportional to its partial pressure above a liquid at a given temperature

Henry’s law

400

This is the term for urobilinogen’s presence in urine

Urobilinogenuria

500

Who is attributed to first discovering the human microbiome?

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

500

The movement of nutrients across the epithelial barrier of the intestines is called?

Perfusion

500

This protein induces opsonization

C3b

500

Osmotic pressure favors...?

Reabsorption

500

This hormone is reduced during overhydration

Antidiuretic hormone