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Question 1: How do pain and touch receptors differ in sensitivity? Question 2: What are the differences in function between the two types of pain fibers? Question 3: How is ALS modeled in mice?
Question 1: What is sexual dimorphism? Give an example within the brain. Question 2: What are place cells, where are they located, and why are they important? Note: This is what the 2014 Nobel Prize
Who were Alex, Washoe, and Koko? Why did researchers believe that Alex, Washoe and Koko actually understood language?
Question 1: What are the differences between conscious and unconscious emotions? Question 2: Describe how the vole system or experiments in rhesus monkeys.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the CNS in which the myelin sheaths are destroyed. What process does this interfere with and what would be the consequence?
Question 1: Why can't antibiotics target cancer cells? Explain in detailed if possible. Question 2: In determining the identity of the protein that corresponds to a newly discovered gene, it often h
Question 1: What is a genetic reason for having laws and social taboos against incest (having children with closely related family members)? Question 2: List and define the levels of gene regulation
Explain how the principles of segregation and independent assortment relate to the chromosome theory of inheritance. Explain the difference between a reciprocal cross, backcross, and testcross.
Question 1: How does the cell repair mutations in DNA during replication? How are DNA mutations repaired at other times in the cell cycle?
Question 1: Compare and contrast direct and indirect calorimetry. Question 2: How does the cell repair mutations in DNA during replication? How are DNA mutations repaired at other times in the cell
Define gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis. If an individual had very low blood glucose levels how would this affect each of these processes and why?
Question 1: Explain two possible reasons why a Anti-dengue virus and Monoclonal body might not work therapeutically. Question 2: Insulin is a hormone that aids in the transport of glucose into the c
A geneticist has obtained two true-breeding strains of mice, each homozygous for an independently discovered recessive mutation that prevents the formation of hair on the body. Determine the relatio
Question 1: How can passive properties affect conduction velocity? Question 2: Do you believe that bottled water is worth the price?
Nondisjunction in meiosis I results in: Two cells missing a chromosome and two healthy cells., Two cells with an additional chromosome and two healthy cells., One cell missing a chromosome, one cell w
Compare and contrast the prokaryotic and eukaryotic light-gathering machinery function and spatial organization. Why do various chlorophylls show different absorption spectra?
What system and primary factors are responsible for controlling ventilation (VE). Which of these has the strongest effect at sea level in a healthy system? By what mechanism does this occur?
Question 1: What are the characteristic of synaptic/receptor potentials? Question 2: How can an action potential travel long distances without decrement but synaptic potentials can't?
Question 1: Why would you want to produce plants that can tolerate salt? Question 2: How does Biotechnology helping the world?
What was the purpose of adding methotrexate to the cells expressing a genetically-engineered Dihydrofolate Reductase enzyme in the mitochondrion-targeting experiment? What did the experiment demonst
What is the significance of microbiology in the hospital setting? How are Koch's Postulates used in medical practices and medical microbiology?
Which type of RNA polymerase produces RNA molecules in bacteria? RNA polymerase III only, RNA polymerase II only, RNA polymerase only, RNA polymerase I, II, and III, RNA polymerase I, and III only
What is the function of transcription factors? To direct mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm, To initiate binding at the Shine Dalgarno sequence, To serve as sequences where RNA polymerase binds, T
Question 1: What was the contribution of Archibald Garrod to the discovery of gene function? Question 2: Outline the experiments of George Beadle and Edward Tatum (actually Adrien Srb and Norman Hor
Testicular biopsy shows sparse, completely hyalinized seminiferous tubules with a complete absence of germ cells and only rare sertoli cells. Leydig cells are present in large clumps between the hya