The receptor (Pacinian corpuscle) converts mechanical energy into an electrical response, the magnitude is proportional to the intensity of the stimulus. Thus, the responses are described as graded potentials rather than all-or-none

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

ADH and oxytocin synthesized in cell bodies of hypothalamic neurons and secreted from nerve terminals in the posterior pituitary.

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

The Enemy release hypothesis is the idea that invasive species are less impacted by enemies than native species.

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Horizontal gene transfer (lateral gene transfer) is the non-sexual movement of genetic information between genomes. 

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

High PSF to food ratio is upregulate the translation of the PKA catalytic subunit PKA-C.

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Modification of H2A inhibits elongation by inhibiting a histone chaperone that removes histone octamers from DNA as Pol II transcribes through a nucleosome, then replaces them as the polymerase passes.