Macromolecules
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This type of medicine is used to treat bacterial infections.
What are antibiotics?
The movement of water across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
The genetic code for the organism that stores the instructions for how to make all of the proteins within an organism.
What is DNA?
The ability of an organisms to regulate a stable internal environment in response to external stimuli.
What is homeostasis?
What are sugars?
This type of medicine is used to prevent viral infections.
What are vaccines?
The direction that particles move in diffusion.
What is from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration?
The nitrogenous bases that make up DNA pair up in this fashion.
What is A-T and C-G?
A type of feedback loop that counteracts a change brought by a stimuli back towards its set equilibrium.
What is a negative feedback loop?
The building blocks of lipids.
What are fatty acids?
This is how bacteria reproduce.
What is mitosis/binary fission/asexual reproduction?
What a fresh grape would do if you placed it in water with a very high concentration of salt.
What is shrink due to water leaving the grape?
The mRNA strand that corresponds with the following DNA strand: ATC CCG ATG
What is UAG GGC UAC?
A type of feedback loop that amplifies the change caused by the external stimuli, pushing the system further away from equilibirum.
What is a positive feedback loop?
The building blocks of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
This is how viruses reproduce.
What is injecting their genetic information into a host cell, and having the host cell make new viruses?
What is equilibrium?
mRNA is used to assemble amino acids at this organelle in the cell who is responsible for protein production.
What is the ribosome?
The continually increasing of the production of oxytocin, far past what is normal, during childbirth, is an example of this type of feedback loop.
What is a positive feedback loop?
An explanation for why herbivores, who do not consume fat, are able to produce fat within their own bodies.
What is organisms are able to take a part the macromolecules that they eat and reassemble them into the macromolecules that they need?
The primary reason mutations make it difficult to design long-lasting vaccines and antibiotics.
What is mutations allow viruses to change their external structure, evading immune recognition, and allow bacteria to develop resistances to existing antibiotics?
The term for a membrane that lets small, polar molecules pass through, but keeps out large, non-polar molecules.
What is Selectively Permeable?
The reason a mutation in DNA can lead to a non-functioning protein.
What is changing the DNA changes the mRNA which changes the Amino Acids that make up the protein. If the properties of the amino acids change, than the shape of the protein may change which may make the protein unable to do its job.
Temperature regulation, where in external temperature stimuli causes the body to begin sweating in order to bring the body back to its normal base temperature is an example of this type of feedback loop.
What is a negative feedback loop?