For this assignment, your job is the to elaborate on the following questions provided. With this being said, make sure to answer each question to the best of your ability with a minimum of 150 words for each question. Although this may look like opinionated questions, but I am looking for specific concepts in your answers.
1. Evelyn is quite proud of her slender, model-like figure and boasts that she doesn’t have an “ounce of excess body fat.” Barbara, on the other hand, is grossly overweight. She complains of being “hot” most of the time, and on a hot day she is miserable. Evelyn generally feels chilled except on very hot days. Explain the relative sensitivity to environmental temperature of these two women on the basis of information you have been given in the Organic Compounds section of this chapter??
2. Certain antibiotics can damage ribosomes in a normal human cells. People that take certain medications must be closely monitored at times. Explain what the possible consequences would be if there where a great amount of ribosomes lost in certain tissues and organs??
3. What does Sunlight do to promote bone maintenance and growth??
4. A model is concerned about a new scar on her abdomen. She tells her surgeon that there is practically no scar from the appendix operation done when she was 16, but this new gallbladder scar is “gross”. Her appendectomy scar is small and obliquely located on the inferior abdominal surface – it is very indistinct. By contrast, the gallbladder scar is large and lumpy and runs at right angles to the central axis of the body trunk. Can you explain why the scars are so different?
5. When we begin to become dehydrated, we usually become thirsty, which causes us to drink fluids. On the basis of what you now know about control systems, decide whether the thirst sensation is part of a negative or a positive feedback control system and defend your choice
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