BIOLOGY
What type of chemical reaction is an example of anabolism?
Condensation
What helps to regulate the levels of glucose in blood?
Where amino acids joined together to make polypeptides?
Ribosomes
Which hormone controls metabolic rate?
Living organisms control pH within their tissues. What is a reason for regulating pH.
Many reactions can only happen at specific pH levels
Which pituitary hormones regulate the human menstrual cycle?
FSH and LH
Though a single nerve cell does not think, millions of them organized as a brain result in thinking. What kind of property does thinking represent?
The cell theory states that cells come from pre-existing cells. What biological processes allows this to occur?
Starch
What can be found in plant cells but not animal cells.
Interphase
What is usually takes the most time in the cell cycle
What movement occurs at the elbow and what is the state of the triceps when lifting an apple to take a bite from it?
What is flexion and relaxed
Which nucleic acids are directly involved in transcription?
mRNA and one DNA strand
Which substances are made during photosynthesis and store energy that can be used by cells?
Glucose and ATP
What occurs during gene mutation?
What is non-disjunction
Which blood group genotype shows codominance?
What is I(A) I(B) (type AB Blood)
How is polymerase chain reaction (PCR) used in research?
What term describes similar structures found in animals with a common ancestry?
What is homologous
Which structure directly absorbs nutrient molecules from the digestive tract?
What is involved in the control of heart rate?
Heart pacemaker, hormone secretion, nerves
What must be present for a human fetus to develop into a normal male?
What is X chromosome, Y chromosome and testosterone.
Which process occurs by osmosis?
What is uptake of water by cells in the wall of intestine. Loss of water from a plant cell in a hypertonic environment.
What is an organism that can best be described as a saprotroph.
Which organisms produce methane in anaerobic environments such as waterlogged soils?
What is archaea
Where in the human body is lipase normally and most commonly produced?
What is pancreas
Which feature of capillaries distinguishes them from arteries and veins?
What is narrow diameter