Biochemistry Answers

 Immune System

Explain what the immune system is doing.  Your explanation should be 7 – 10 complete sentences.  Diagrams/drawings might be helpful.  

In your description, correctly use, at least 8 of these vocabulary words:

Adaptive/acquired immune response

Antibody

Antigen

Cytotoxic T-cell

Fever

Helper T-cell

Histamine

Inflammation

Innate immune response

Macrophage

Mast cell

Memory B-cell

Natural killer cell

Neutrophil

Pathogen

Plasma B-cell

Pus

Topic:   A patient comes in with symptoms of fever, loss of appetite, a sore throat.  You, the doctor, think that it might be a bacterial infection and prescribe antibiotics.  The patient takes the antibiotics however the symptoms do not go away.   What is the patient’s body doing to fight the disease?

Write your paragraph here (some sentences provided if you want them):

In scenario ______ the symptoms indicate that the immune system is working in the following way ...

1. Explain the effects of triton on the activities of each of the enzymes (MDH and LDH).
2. Explain the observed distribution of the enzymes in terms of their metabolic roles.

Of the parts of the carbon cycle listed below, which is the largest natural carbon sink on Earth?

Describe the steps you would take to identify Staphylococcus aureus from a patient’s

blood sample

Discuss the role of O antigens in bacterial pathogenicity and host immune responses

5)The hydrolysis of glucose-6-phosphate is catalyzed by phosphatase, this phosphatase

in not found in:

Select one:

a. Kidneys

b. Liver

c. Skeletal muscles and liver

d. Skeletal muscles

e. Small intestine

Ackee, the national fruit of Jamaica, can lead to Jamaican vomiting sickness if eaten before it ripen. Hypoglycin in the unripe fruit is metabolized to a molecule that irreversibly binds to carnitine, inhibiting the oxidation of long-chain fatty acids. What metabolic pathway glucose metabolism will be inhibited in Jamaican vomiting sickness? Select one: a. Glycogen Synthesis b. Glycolysis c Gluconeogenesis d. Glycogenolysis

The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can produce a bleeding diathesis characterized by hematomas, hematuria, melena, and bleeding from the gums by decreasing the normal gut flora and inducing a deficiency of a certain vitamin.

7.2.1 Which vitamin is deficient? Explain

Ketone bodies are exported from the liver for use by other tissues. Explain the enzymatic

properties of the liver that contributes to its special ability to export these compounds.

Discuss the principles of ion exchange and affinity chromatography