Uwrf - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is a determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as females or males? - Answer-Sex What is the process of social interaction by which individuals learn the ways of their society and develop their sense of self? - Answer-Socialization xx, xy - Answer-Chromosomal sex xx=estrogen xy=androgen - Answer-Hormonal sex Penis/ Vagina - Answer-External sex develops Gender on a macrolevel - Answer-socially and culturally constru...

A glycogen granule would be characterized as: - Answer-A cytoplasmic inclusion Which neuronal structure is responsible for carrying signals into the cell body? - Answer-Dendrite Which type of vesicle is received by the golgi apparatus? - Answer-Transport Which cellular function is lost as a result of many types of cancer? - Answer-Apoptosis The 'trigger zone' of the neuron is located at the... - Answer-Axon hillock Which of the following is the most conserved of all animal proteins and ...

Traditionalist - Using the style of today, and combining the style of the pervious 200 years Modernist - A name givien to music which was more cutting edge Avant-Garde - Ahead of the times, especially in the arts Impressoinism - lack of detail, haziness Claude Debussy - Father of 20th century music, modernist Prelude to the afternoon of a faun - -Ground breaking piece -Complicated rythems -Quiet dynamics Maurice Ravel - -Studied piano -Meticulous composer -Impressionism Orchestration ...

What are the six parts of the global agri-food system? - Answer-Food distributors, food manufacturers, commodity processors, producers, input suppliers and food retailers Which of the following is an example of a commodity? A. Pasta B. Flour C. Bread D. Wheat - Answer-D. Wheat T/F The study of agriculture only pertains to farm activities - Answer-False T/F Farm Labor accounts for 1% of the nations GDP - Answer-True The number of farms in the U.S has been increasing over the last century...

Cell - smallest living unit of life 2 Categories for all Cells - Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Eukaryotic cells have - a true nucleus Bacteria is an example of - prokaryotic cell 2 types of Eukaryotic cells - plant and animal Organelle - a part of the cell that has a specialized structure and function what 3 things make a plant and animal cell different from each other - plants have chloroplast, large vacuole, and cell wall. animal cells do not Endoplasmic Reticulum - Can be smooth or rough...

Neuron Doctrine - 1.The brain is composed of separate cells that are distinct structurally, metabolically, and functionally 2."Information" is transferred from neuron to neuron/cell across tiny gaps. This connection is called a synapse Camillo Golgi - discovered golgi apparatus Ramon y Cajal - father of modern neuroscience Dendrite - dendrite spines - Soma - Neucleus - axon hillock - Axon - axon collaterals - myelin sheath - Nodes of Ranvier -axon terminal/Presynaptic Terminal - ...

Animal - eukaryotic organism with no cell walls, multicellular, motile, and ingestion feeders development - progression of life stages primitive - taken along the way of evolutionary development holozonic - Whole food engulfing saprozoic - absorbing food monophyletic - group having a common ancestor, part of that group Protozoan similarity to animals - They lack cell wall, one motile stage in life, holozoic homeostasis - maintain internal environment osmoregulate - regulation of salt in ...

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;...

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;...