TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8186

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Glyoxysomes

Conversion of fats to sugars is accomplished by a series of reactions known as the Glyoxylate cycle

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8884

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

This phosphorylation, together with phosphorylation of lamin B by protein kinase C, causes depolymerization of the lamin intermediate filaments.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8405

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Muscle contraction depends on two processes that consume enormous amounts of ATP: 

1. Filament sliding, driven by the ATPase of the myosin

2. Ca2+ pumping, driven by the Ca2+ ATPase

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 2243

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

The loci that encode hemoglobins are members of a gene family, which is a set of loci that arose by duplication.

TLS Online TPP Program

#Id: 8313

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

3 isoforms of actin-

α - expressed only in muscle cells

β and γ - found together in almost all non-muscle cells