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AMSA
ASBMB
Pre-Nursing
DAAG
Red Cross
100
This protein is responsible for carrying oxygen in the blood
What is hemoglobin
100
The smallest and largest amino acids
What are Glycine and Tryptophan
100
A deficiency of this major mineral deficiency causes osteoporosis
What is Calcium
100
Insulin is produced by this organ
What is the pancreas?
100
A fat that has no double blonds between the individual carbons
What is a saturated fat?
200
The names of the 3 sections of the small intestine
What are the Duodenum, Jejunum, Ileum?
200
The two main types of secondary structures in proteins
What are the Alpha helix and B-pleated sheet?
200
It is composed of a cell body, dendrites, and axons
What is a neuron?
200
When blood glucose levels are low, it is known as this
What is Hypoglycemia?
200
The most common way to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA
What is PCR?
300
The Parasympathetic nervous system's most widely used neutransmitter
What is Acetylcholine?
300
The only one of the 20 standard amino acids to have a secondary amine
What is Proline?
300
This disease is represented by hallucinations, disorganized speech, and delusions
What is Schizophrenia?
300
This glucose test is currently the most accepted form of testing your risk of having diabetes
What is A1C Test?
300
The process by which platelets and other blood components are collected from a donor
What is Apheresis?
400
The two veins that carry oxygenated blood towards the heart
What are the pulmonary and umbilical veins?
400
The difference in protein structure that hemoglobin possesses, but myoglobin does not
What is quaternary structure?
400
This region of the brain receives signals to stimulate or suppress eating
What is the Hypothalamus?
400
Charcot foot is a condition resulting from what effect of diabetes
What is nerve damage?
400
The process of producing NO3- from NH4+
What is nitrification?
500
The 8 hexose sugars
What are allose, altrose, glucose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, and talose?
500
A series of chemical reactions that aerobic organisms use to generate energy through the oxidation of acetate
What is the Citric Acid Cycle or Kreb's Cycle?
500
This enzyme functions in the absence of ATP, CTP, GTP, UTP or TTP?
What is Ligase?
500
These cells are attacked and destroyed by the immune system in Type 1 Diabetics
What are the Beta islet cells or islets of langerhans cells
500
The final electron acceptor for the electron transport chain in photosynthesis
What is NADP+