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The half-life of drug X is 3.5 hours. If the drug is infused at a rate of 50 mg/hr

During an intermittent dosing regimen, once steady-state has been achieved:

  CH13 vocabulary (part 1)… match the term to the correct definition (hint: copied directly from quizlets!)  

  We talked about what signals both the beginning and end of translation.  Translation termination occurs when a ribosome interacts with which of the following structures that signals the end of translation?  

BONUS #1 This is a throwback to last block that does overlap with this block… get your Punnett on!  A man with normal vision who is a dwarf due to achondroplasia has children with a woman who is colorblind and of average height. Dwarfism caused by achondroplasia is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.   What proportion of their sons are expected to be color blind and of normal height?  

If a 400 mg i.v. bolus dose of ceftriaxone was administered at the same time as starting the infusion (100 mg/hr) what is the predicted concentration after 5.5 hours?

  Which of the following statements correctly describes the structure of chromatin?  

  In DNA replication, which enzyme catalyzes the elongation (i.e. addition of nucleotides to only the 3’ end) of a new DNA strand growing in the 5′ → 3′ direction?  

  As adults, we’re made up of trillions of cells and hundreds of different types of cells doing wildly different jobs in the body…. think how!  Muscle cells differ from nerve cells mainly because they ________.  

The following question refers to this table of codons.   What amino acid sequence will be generated based on the following mRNA codon sequence?   5′-AUG-UCU-UCG-UUA-UCC-UUG-3′