Biology Flashcards
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Testosterone
- synthesized in male leydig cell of tests and aid in maturation
- androgen circulate through body promoting secondary sex characteristics
Estradiol
- Primary estrogen in women and synthesized in the theca cells of the ovarian follicle
- INCREASE secondary sex characteristics
- regulations of ovarian cycle
- control of certain metabolic processes
Cortisol
- synthesized in female/male
- INCREASE glycogen synthesis/gluconeoegenesis in skeletal muscle by DECREASE in glucose uptake + DECREASE in protien synthesis + INCREASE protien catabolism
Adipose tissue : INCREASE lipid mobilization and DECREASE glucose uptake
WANTS TO KEEP GLUCOSE IN BLOOD STREAM
Progesterone
- Mainly in females
- Protect Uterline lining
- stimulate mammallary tissues
- synthesis in low level of testes
Gram positive in bacteria
- more peptidoglycan
- stains red/pink
- readily digested by lysosome
- NO outermembrane - EASY TO PENETRATE
Gram Negative
thin Peptidoglycan
- YES to outer memberane - hard to kill/penetrate
Complement system
part of immune system that enhances( complements) the ability of antibodies/phagocytic cells to clear microbes/damanged cells from an organism
microtubule
Alpha-tublulin and beta tubulin
used in mitotic spindles
+ sing= adding and moving away from nucleus
- sign = moving toward nucleus
microfilament
smallest g actin = gobular F-actin = filamentou= polymerized Gactin \+ direction = polymerization - direction = depolymerization
What is the action of endonuclease
it acts on double stranded DNA
DNA measures in what form of energy
UV absorbtion = because single and double stranded DNA absorb different amounts due to base stacking * hyperchromic effect)
Why would replication come to a halt in the absence of topoisomerase?
movement of the replication complex would be energetically impossible
what do topoisomerase do?
it stablixes double stranded DNA that is wound or unwound.
tumor suppressing gene
if gene that leads to a cancer is knocked out gene
topoismerase
DNA becomes overwound when helicase unwinds- so it needs an enzyme to stablize.
without topoisomerase- replication cannot move energentically forward- tight coiling of DNA will halt replication
what is a proto-oncogene?
normal gene that could become an oncogene due to mutation or increase expression
( mneumonic = pro = likely
ongocene = cancer….. put both of them together, likely to develop into cancer)
What is used to open up an existing plasmid so that a new one can be interested
restriction site , but it need a primer
order: primer sequence - restriction site-(gene)
Vacuole
- holds water
- does not contain DNA/RNA
what do mitochondria and choloplasts have in common?
Both are unusual organelles because they contain nuclear encoded with organelles encoded protiens
heterotrophs
use energy derived from another organis’s metabolism
Prototropths
characterized by the ability to synthesize all compounds needed for growth
Mneumoic: = proactive.
C-amp ( cyclic AMP)
- second messenger triggered when a ligand binds to membrane bound receptor
- Through G-protien intermediate, adenylate cyclase enzyme converts ATP –> AMP
Where is adenylate cyclase attached
Adenylate cyclase is attached to inner layer of the phospholipid and not located in the cytoplasm
Gram-negative
- has an outer lipopolysaccaride layer which protects against certain antibiotic