Uwrf - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What does a spectrophotometer measure? - Answer-How much light of each color is coming from a sky object The apparent path of the sun, moon, planets, and zodiac across the sky is called the? - Answer-Ecliptic What is special about the stars Mizar and Alcor in the Big Dipper? - Answer-They are actually a system of 6 stars When using circular maps the center of the circle represents the? - Answer-Overhead Point A solar day is the time between? - Answer-Sun Rises The first person credited wi...

The central dogma of molecular biology refers to transcription and translation. Transcription completes the process using DNA's to make_____whereas translation is using_____to make proteins. - RNA's, RNA's Cell membrane is formed by two layers of phospholipids. Therefore, the thickness of cell membrane is within the size range of - Macromolecules most elements are neutral because they have equal number of electrons and protons. Normal carbon 12C, has 6 electrons, 6 proton, and 6 neutron...

What are the two planes the horse can flex in? - Answer--Lateral -Longitudinal What does lateral flexion require? - Answer-Bending from side to side What do the muscles on the inside do during lateral flexion? Outside muscles? - Answer-Inside: contract/shorten Outside: relax/stretch What is the goal of training? - Answer-Develop straightness When on the rail doing ring figures, how does the horse move? - Answer-On two tracks; lateral pairs each on same track When on the rail, where shou...

Ursa Major - Answer-circumpolar constellation at 45N Big dipper - Answer-asterism Orion - Answer-asterism Taurus - Answer-zodiac constellation Draco - Answer-circumpolar at 45N Northern Cross - Answer-asterism Your birth sign is - Answer-the constellation behind the sun at the moment of your birth We are currently living in the age of - Answer-Pisces What is the location of of our solar system in the Milk Way galaxy? - Answer-Halfway out from the center How do we know the Milky Way gala...

CHAPTER 28 - What was the official reason for American entry into the First World War? - Answer-U-boat Warfare used by Germany Besides the Western Front, where else was the First World War fought? - Answer-East Africa, The Eastern Front, Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the war on the side of the Central Powers? - Answer-German economic influence (Berlin-to-Baghdad railway) What was the Japanese Empire's role in the First World War? - Answer--Demanded remova...

What animal characteristics do protozoans have? - No cell walls, eukaryotic, some are multicellular, some are heterotrophs How are protozoans able to carry out bodily functions in a single cell? - -possess organelles -some are autotrophs -possess all other animal characteristics What are two kinds of ASEXUAL reproduction that occur in protozoans? - Binary fission and schizogany (multiple fission) What is ASEXUAL reproduction in protozoans? - split off Any advantages to asexual reproducti...

What is sociology? - Answer-the systematic study of human society Sociological Imagination - Answer-the ability to see the link between society and self. -C.Wright Mills Socialization - Answer-the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society Agents of Socialization - Answer-social institutions, including families and schools, that help to shape individuals' basic political beliefs and values St...

Which of the following parts of the SWOT analysis are internal to the business? A. Strengths B. Weaknesses C. Opportunities D. Threats - Answer-A and B. Strengths and Weaknesses The Law of Demand states: A. There us a direct relationship between price and quantity demanded B. There is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. C. There is no relationship between price and quantity demanded D. The law of Diminishing Marginal Utility holds - Answer-B. There is an inverse...

Micelles - Answer-single layer of phospholipids, important in fat digestion/absorption Liposomes - Answer-large spheres with bilayer phospholipids walls and hollow center Phospholipid bilayer - Answer-sheets of bilayer phospholipid walls found in membranes sphingolipids - Answer-longer, head is sphingosine cholestrol - Answer-hydrophobic, insert between phospholipids integral proteins - Answer-tightly bound, hydrophobic, hard to remove lipid-anchored proteins - Answer-bound to lipid tails;...

3 germ layers - ectoderm, MESODERM, endoderm What does the mesoderm form? - True muscle tissue Acoelomate - no body cavity coelomate (eucoelomate) - True body cavity completely surrounded by mesoderm Pseudocoelomate - false body cavity symmetry of platyhelminthes - bilateral symmetry (first appearance) Platyhelminthes nervous system - -Anterior cerebral ganglion and nerve cords -Eyespots Platyhelminthes osmoregulation - Flame cells Simple diffusion Flame cells - In flatworms, specializ...