BIOLOGY 3UU3 Lecture Notes - Nadph Oxidase, Circadian Clock, Circadian Rhythm

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOLOGY 3UU3
• Professor: David Rollo

Document Summary

One question per courseware reading; longer ones will have 2 questions per reading. The first framework was body size (virtually all physiology scales with body size). A lot of synthetic power with the science of allometry. Not a common framework but a powerful one. There are fundamental regulatory systems (mechanisms of heterodimers, oxidative modification of cysteine residues, various kinds of transcriptional controls, etc). What we"re doing now is putting those mechanisms into another large framework which will give us a perspective that many people do not have. This will be the main model for regulatory organization particularly in eukaryotes. There are 3 different temporal windows or phases across the 24 hour day. There is an internal clock that is fairly accurate. Your body inherently knows what time it is. That is a fundamental underpinning of what your body is doing. Niche interfacing is another task that your body has (ecology).