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Question 1

What is plasma used to circulate?

Answer 1

Biologically active molecules and compounds

Question 2

What is the definition of haematocrit?

Answer 2

Percentage of blood that is made of red blood cells

Question 3

What do basophils release?

Answer 3

Histamine and heparin

Question 4

What are the three categories of plasma proteins?

Answer 4

Albumin
Globulin
Fibrinogen

Question 5

What is leukopoiesis controlled by?

Answer 5

Cytokines

Question 6

What is blood clotting mediated by?

Answer 6

Platelets

Question 7

What do B-cells produce?

Answer 7

Antibodies

Question 8

What does the epidermis prevent?

Answer 8

Water loss by evaporation

Question 9

What is an isotonic twitch?

Answer 9

Contraction with shortening length

Question 10

What is an isometric twitch?

Answer 10

Contraction with constant length

Question 11

What does muscle fatigue prevent?

Answer 11

Muscles using up vast amounts of ATP

Question 12

Which receptors evoke slow IPSPs and EPSPs?

Answer 12

G-protein receptors coupled directly to an ion channel

Question 13

What do osteoblasts derive from?

Answer 13

Mesenchymal precursor cell

Question 14

What do stromal cells?

Answer 14

Produce growth factors for haemopoiesis

Question 15

What are TAGs esters of?

Answer 15

Fatty acids and glycerol

Question 16

What is steatorrhea?

Answer 16

Excess fat in faeces

Question 17

Where is lipoprotein primarily found?

Answer 17

Capillaries of the skeletal muscle

Question 18

How are chylomicrons released?

Answer 18

Through exocytosis

Question 19

What are free fatty acids transported through the blood as?

Answer 19

In a complex with serum albumin

Question 20

For every glucose molecule that is broken down, what is produced?

Answer 20

2ATP
2NADH
2 Pyruvate

Question 21

Name 3 disaccharides

Answer 21

Maltose
Sucrose
Lactose

Question 22

What are disaccharide deficiencies characterised by?

Answer 22

Abdominal distension

Cramps

Question 23

How is glucose absorbed?

Answer 23

By an indirect ATP-powered process

Question 24

Glucose monomers are removed from where in terms of a glycogen molecule?

Answer 24

The non-reducing ends

Question 25

When is pyruvate reduced to lactate?

Answer 25

During fermentation

Question 26

What does the adrenal cortex require NADPH for?

Answer 26

Steroid synthesis

Question 27

What is lactate dehydrogenase used to do?

Answer 27

Convert lactate into pyruvate using NAD+

Question 28

What is pyruvate dehydrogenase regulated by?

Answer 28

ATP

Question 29

What does the nucleoli serve as?

Answer 29

The site for ribosomal synthesis and assembly

Question 30

What do catalases regulate?

Answer 30

Hydrogen peroxide concentration

Question 31

Oxidases are involved in what?

Answer 31

Beta-oxidation of long-chain fatty acids

Question 32

What does the outer membrane of the mitochondria contain?

Answer 32

Porin

Question 33

What is the cristae?

Answer 33

The folded inner membrane of the mitochondria

Question 34

What process is the enzyme nitrogenase required in

Answer 34

Nitrogen fixation

Question 35

What is ammonia a product of?

Answer 35

Oxidative deamination

Question 36

What does the pyridoxal phosphate co-factor do during transamination?

Answer 36

Transfers the amino group

Question 37

Where do trypsin and chromotrypsin work?

Answer 37

Small intestine

Question 38

What do vigorously working muscles rely on for energy?

Answer 38

Glycolysis

Question 39

What are inherited metabolic disorders?

Answer 39

Group of genetic disease involving metabolic defects

Question 40

What are two examples of adrenergic receptors?

Answer 40

Alpha

Beta

Question 41

Which part of the autonomic nervous system has long pre-ganglionic fibres?

Answer 41

Parasympathetic system

Question 42

Ionotropic receptors are found where?

Answer 42

Somatic Nervous system

Question 43

What type of outflow is the parasympathetic system?

Answer 43

Cranio-sacral