When you eat a piece of pizza, there are plenty of triglycer…
When you eat a piece of pizza, there are plenty of triglycerides that you are ingesting. You can store some of these molecules for later use but your body likes to metabolize what it can. Which of the following describes the process of triglyceride metabolism?
Read DetailsYersinia pestis is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillu…
Yersinia pestis is a gram-negative, non-motile, coccobacillus bacterium without spores. It causes the disease plague, which caused the first plague pandemic and the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history. Y. pestis can produce ATP by either fermentation or oxidative phosphorylation; thus, they are
Read DetailsThe isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold regions, i…
The isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold regions, including the Arctic. The banded wooly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, when it literally freezes solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body. How would you expect cells not being served by the circulatory system to produce ATP when the heart stops beating? What by-product would you expect to build up in the cells?
Read DetailsThis will be done on scratch paper and submitted. Draw 3 b…
This will be done on scratch paper and submitted. Draw 3 bacterial cells; one in a hypertonic, one in an isotonic, and one in a hypotonic environment. Please also indicate the direction of water movement and include solute concentrations in the cell and in the environment (these can be round numbers 5, 10, 15, 20…etc.).
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