Renee and Karl have been married for six years, and have two active children, ages 2 and 5. The kids keep both parents busy, chasing the kids around and, recently, preparing the oldest child for kindergarten. In addition, both Renee and Karl work full time, so there isn’t a lot of free time to do things that are important to their health, like see the doctor for regular physicals. Both are healthy, so they haven’t been too worried.

Renee went for routine physical last week and had blood work drawn. (It had been three years since her last physical.) The doctor called during the day with some worrying results. After putting the kids to bed, Renee was ready to talk through the results with Karl. Karl, with a worried look on his face, asked what was up. Renee told him that her cholesterol levels were very high. In fact, her total cholesterol was 220. Her HDL was 20, and her LDL was 200. That information, combined with the fact that her father had passed away at a young age from a heart attack, worried the doctor…and Renee.

1) What are HDL and LDL?
INSERT ANSWER

2)What is the normal role of cholesterol in the body? Do you need cholesterol? (Hint: Remember cell membranes.)
INSERT ANSWER

3)What are the health consequences of high cholesterol?
INSERT ANSWER

4)What could be causing Renee’s high cholesterol levels? Describe at least three possible contributing factors.
INSERT ANSWER

Calculate LC50 if the equation MTT trend line was y =-50,000ln(x) +400,000 and the cell density in the control treatment was 500,000 cells/mL.

What is the difference between a silent mutation, point mutation and a missense mutation?

Physical Development

1. Describe the changes in brain development that take place during toddlerhood, and identify the two most common methods of measuring brain activity.

2. Discuss how growth rate affects the eating habits of preschool children, and examine the most common nutritional problems of preschoolers.

BIO 474 PSQ 3, 4, 5

3) Why or how might the control of cell membrane permeability (specifically voltage-dependent and ligand-gated conductances) be important in neuron or brain functioning?

4) From an evolutionary (and practical) standpoint, why don't all of the cells in our bodies have properties similar or identical to nerve cells?

5) [ Think up a question of your own and answer it ] - I DID THIS ONE ALREADY JUST NEED HELP WITH 3 AND 4. Thank you!

Given a plant with the genotype C/c^m; Ac⁺/Ac⁺, where c^m is an unstable allele caused by a Ds insertion. This plant is crossed with another plant with the genotype C/c^m where c^m is an unstable allele caused by Ac insertion.

What phenotypes would be produced (including their proportion)? Assume that Ac and c are unlinked, that the chromosome-breakage frequency is negligible, and that mutant c/C is Ac+.

Biocompatibility

•Why is titanium often considered an ideal implant material?

•List the steps of an inflammatory response starting with implantation and ending with fibrous encapsulation. Include the cells involved with the inflammatory response.

Which of the following is not true about membrane phospholipids?

Group of answer choices

They have hydrophilic tails in the interior of the membrane.

All of the options are true of membrane phospholipids

They are found in the plasma membrane of plant cells

They can move laterally in the membrane

They will spontaneously form a lipid bilayer in an aqueous environment

It is generally assumed that most people who are blind or deaf would prefer to be sighted or be able to hear. Imagine you have lost the sense of vision or hearing. How would your life be different? For this, write about the advantages of not having sight or hearing. (550 words ) required

If you want to reproduce the shuttling experiment as performed during week 3. you will need to purchase Cycloheximide (CHX) from one of three potential suppliers. CHX has a molar mass of 281.35 g/mol and can be dissolved in DMSO, water, or EtOH but with different solubilities. You will need to use CHX at a final working concentration of 17 μg/mL in a 150 mm dish with a total media volume of 14 mL.

Determine how much of the stock solution purchased from each company you would need (in μL) to add to the media in the 150 mm dish to obtain the final working concentration of CHX. Give your answers in μL using the scientific notation.

a. Company A supplies CHX dissolved in DMSO at 100 mg/ mL:

Volume needed in μL

b. Company A supplies CHX dissolved in water in 2% (w/v) solution

Volume needed in μL:

c. Company A supplies CHX dissolved in EtOH at 50 mM

Volume needed in μL:

Eukaryotic Scavenger Hunt ---NOTE: Pay close attention to the questions. Check spelling carefully. Be sure that genus names are formatted correctly: First letter capitalized and the name italicized if typed or underlined if handwritten.

Fungi

1. Name the genus of the zygomycete known as black bread mold.

2. Name the genus of the ascomycete responsible for the production of penicillin.

3. Name the genus of the basidiomycete commonly known as the portobello mushroom.

4. Name the genus of the yeast commonly used to make beer and bread.

Algae

5. Name a genus of unicellular green algae

.6. Name a genus of colonial green algae.

7. Name the genus of a filamentous green algae with chloroplasts arranged in a spiral pattern.

8. Name the group in which the genus Thalassiosira is found.

9. Name the genus of the brown alga known as giant kelp.

10. Name a genus of red algae used as a source of agar.

11. Name a genus of dinoflagellate that is bioluminescent.

12. Name a genus of fungus that has been found in a lichen.

13. Name a genus of algae that has been found in a lichen.

Protozoa

14. Name a genus of amoeba.

15. Name a genus of ciliate.

16. Name the genus of the flagellate that causes African trypanosomiasis.

17. Name the genus of the flagellate that has chloroplasts and a light-sensitive spot.

18. Name the genus of the apicomplexan that causes malaria.

Slime Molds

19. Name a genus of a true slime mold

.20. Name a genus of a cellular slime mold.

Helminths

21. Name the genus of the trematode known commonly as the lung fluke.

22. Name the genus of the cestode known commonly as the beef tapeworm.

23. Name the genus of a nematode with sexual dimorphism.