Psych/Soc
disorganized movement of a schizophrenia patient
What is catatonia?
a portion of the operon in prokaryotes capable of binding a repressor protein
What is the operator?
exact spatial arrangement around a chiral atom; R or S
What is absolute conformation?
insulating material placed in a capacitor
What is a dielectric?
variability in phenotype (like severity of disease) that can occur with a given genotype
What is expressivity?
mistakes children make when learning language and applying grammatical rules universally
de novo synthesis of lipids and carbohydrates that relies on gene expression and enzyme specificity, not the DNA or RNA
What is nontemplate synthesis?
stationary phase of gas chromatography
What is crushed metal or polymer?
B = 10log (intensity /10^-12 W/meters squared)
What is sound level or loudness of a sound?
secreted by parietal cells, required for vitamin B12 absorption
What is intrinsic factor?
protein that binds to the stop codon during translation
What is release factor?
form of chromatography that allows very refined separation and characterization
What is high performance liquid chromatography?
phenomenon in which white light strikes a prism and scatters into a rainbow on the other side
What is dispersion?
level of potency after indeterminate cleavage
What is totipotency?
theory of emotion that states a stimulus prompts a physiological response that leads to an emotional response
enzyme inhibitor that has no effect on Km but lowers Vmax
What is noncompetitive inhibitor?
method of making amino acids that uses condensation between an aldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, followed by hydrolysis
What is Strecker Synthesis?
when objects are at the same temperature
bony spicules in spongy bone
What is trabeculae?
portion of the embryonic forebrain that becomes the thalamus, hypothalamus, posterior pituitary, and pineal gland
What is diencephalon?
a colorimetric method of determining the concentration of protein against a protein standard; uses Coomassie Brilliant Blue dye
What is the Bradford Protein Assay?
method of making amino acids using potassium phthalimide and diethyl bromomalonate followed by an alkyl halide; two substitutions, hydrolysis, and decarboxylation
What is the Gabriel Synthesis?
F (buoy) = __________ * vol submerged * gravity
density of fluid
tissue that forms from collapsed follicle, produces progesterone and estrogen
What is corpus luteum?