Basic Chemistry
The cells that do not have membrane bound organelles or a nucleus
What are prokaryotes?
These enzymes speed up chemical reactions.
What are catalysts?
The layer of cells at the interface between the inside of your body and outside of your body
What is an epithelium?
The location of DNA
The process of going from DNA to RNA
What is transcription?
This involves the sharing of electrons between atoms
What is a covalent bond?
These are the monomers that make up proteins
What are amino acids?
The functional unit of the kidney
What is the nephron?
One way that DNA is modified
What is methylation?
The direction a strand is made
What is 5' to 3'?
What is a non-polar bond?
These are the secondary structures of proteins
What are Alpha-helices and B-sheets?
The location of where the step of reabsorption happens (after Bowman's capsule)
What is the proximal tubule?
The direction of both DNA strands
What is antiparallel?
A DNA binding protein that regulates transcription
What are transcription factors?
This is why a meniscus forms where water meets a solid surface
What is cohesion and adhesion?
The type of bond that Cysteine makes
What is a disulfide bond?
This protein allows water to exit
What are aquaporins?
The enzyme that adds new nucleotides
What is DNA polymerase?
This is what Thymine is replaced with in RNA
What is Uracil?
This environment had lots of protons and a low pH
This makes up a triglyceride
What are fatty acids and glycerol?
The part that is very impermeable to water, but permeable to ions
What is the ascending loop of Henle?
What are Okazaki fragments?
These are removed by spliceosomes
What are introns?