Tadpoles must undergo a major metamorphosis to become frogs. This change includes reabsorption of the tail, growth of limbs, calcification of the skeleton, increase in rhodopsin in the eye, development of lungs, change in hemoglobin structure, and reformation of the gut from the long gut of an herbivore to the short gut of a carnivore. Amazingly, all of these changes are induced by thyroxine. What is the most likely explanation for such a wide array of effects of thyroxine?

#Question id: 11189

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Refer to the following graph of an action potential to answer the question.

At label ________, the cell is not hyperpolarized; however, repolarization is in progress, as the sodium channels are inactivated or becoming inactivated, and many potassium channels have opened.

#Question id: 11680

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

After drinking alcoholic beverages, increased urine excretion is the result of ________.

#Question id: 2206

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

The glucose uniporter GLUT1 has a Km of 1.5 mM for D-glucose and 30 mM for D-galactose.  At a concentration of 5 mM for each, what is the rate of glucose transport relative to galactose transport?  The Vmax may be assumed to be the same for both.

#Question id: 501

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

In a tissue that metabolizes glucose via the pentose phosphate pathway, C-1 of glucose would be expected to end up principally in:

#Question id: 18666

#Unit 13. Methods in Biology