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20 Cards in this Set
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Developmental abnormalities can be caused by _______ _________ or by _____________ ______.
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genetic disorders, environmental agents
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KIT gene is expressed in
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1) germ, precursor germ cells 2) precursor blood 3) neural crest cells
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Symptoms of __________: sterile, underpigmented, deaf, gut malformation, anemia
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piebaldism
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Vampire diseases, or __________ are caused by deficiencies in the heme biosynthetic pathway
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porphyrias
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Deficiencies of ____ is responsible for PCT and HEP
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UROD
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UROD stands for
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Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase
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UROD converts ___porphyrinogen I and III to _____porphyrinogen I and III
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Uro, Copro
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ICM stands for
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Intermediate Cell Mass
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A ________ mutation, ___ to ___ (methionine to arginine causes this (UROD based) porphyric phenotype
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missense, ATG, AGG
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Overexpression of norman UROD gene "cures" the vampire syndrome T/F
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True
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__________, the abnormal shortening of limbs can be caused by ___________
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Phocomelia, thalidomide
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Growth where all components grow at the same rate
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Isometric
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Growth where there are different growth rates of various parts in the same organism
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Allometric
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y=bx^(a/c) When a = c, y = bx, it describes
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isometric growth
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y=bx^(a/c) when a is NOT EQUAL to c, y=bx^(a/c) describes ________ ______. Say a > c, then the part of the body represented by a is growing ______ than the part of the body represented by c.
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allometric growth, faster
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In 1952, Alan Turing proposed the
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reaction-diffusion model.
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P: (slow diffusion) promotes production of _ & _.
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P, S
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S: (rapid diffusion) inhibits the production of _.
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P
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From birth to maturity, humans experience __________ growth.
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allometric
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Uca pugnax
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Fiddler crab
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