Consider a scenario in which you have a bacterial infection and get a very high fever (105°F). Soon after, you become even sicker. After running some tests, the doctor tells you that your antibodies (proteins that recognize intruders like the bacteria that caused your fever) are misshapen and they aren’t binding to the bacteria anymore. They also tell you that the protein channels in your cell membranes are oddly shaped too, and they aren’t allowing glucose into your cells. What probably happened to cause these changes?
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What happened to the glomerular capillary pressure and filtration rate when you decreased the radius of the efferent arteriole?
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What was the effect that atropine had on heart rate?
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A(n) _______________ is a section of DNA that codes for a polypeptide or RNA.
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Both freezing and boiling denatured proteins, leaving enzymes irreversibly inactive.
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What do epistasis and quantitative traits have in common?