Chemistry
A definition of acids as producers of excess H+ and bases as producers of excess OH- in aqueous solutions.
What is Arrhenius definition?
Distance, speed, and mass.
What are scalar quantities?
The name for a group of neuronal cell bodies in the peripheral nervous system. May be sensory or autonomic.
What is Ganglia?
The minimum of stimulus energy needed to activate a sensory system.
What is Absolute Threshold?
An element of secondary structure, marked by peptide chains lying alongside one another, forming rows or strands.
What is Beta pleated sheet?
States that the number of moles of a gas present is proportional to its volume, assuming constant pressure and temperature.
What is Avogadro's principle?
States that a body that is fully or partially immersed in a liquid will be buoyed upwards by a force that is equal to the weight of the liquid displaced by the body.
What is Archimedes' Principle?
This states that all living things are composed of cells; cells are the basic functional unit of life; cells arise only from pre-existing cells; and cells carry their genetic information in the form of DNA.
What is Cell Theory?
The simultaneous presence of two opposing thoughts or opinions.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
A laboratory method used to detect specific protein molecules from among a mixture of proteins.
What is a Western blot?
A molecule or carbon atom bonded to four different groups and without a plane of symmetry. Thus, it is not superimposable upon its mirror image and has an enantiomer. This is said to be...
What is chiral?
States that for any process, the entropy of the universe either increases (for irreversible processes) or remains constant (for reversible processes).
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
Describes a situation in which an organism heterozygous for a trait will have a phenotype that expresses both alleles in full.
What is codominance?
In Jungian psychoanalysis, the part of the unconscious mind that is shared among all humans and is the result of our common ancestry.
What is Collective Unconscious?
A three nucleotide sequence on a tRNA molecule that pairs with a corresponding mRNA codon during translation.
What is Anticodon?
A type of diastereomer with different arrangements of substituents about an immovable bond.
What is cis-trans isomer?
The speed of light in m/s
What is 3.00 x 108 m/s?
A hormone that is secreted by the duodenum in response to the presence of chyme. This hormone stimulates the release of bile and pancreatic enzymes into the small intestine and promotes satiety.
What is Cholecystokinin (CCK)?
A theoretical framework that emphasizes the role of power differentials in producing social order.
What is Conflict Theory?
The production of multiple different but related mRNA molecules from a single primary transcript of pre-mRNA.
What is Alternative Splicing?
Solid, liquid, and gas.
What are the three phases of matter?
The process in which no heat flows from the system to its surroundings (or vice versa).
What is an adiabatic process?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is mitochondria?
The branch of psychology devoted to the study of unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought.
What is abnormal psychology?
Enzymes that experience changes in their conformation as a result of interactions at sites other than the active site. Conformational changes may increase or decrease enzyme activity.
What are Allosteric Enzymes?