BIO 4120 Study Guide - Microfilament, Gluconeogenesis
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2 in order to sustain life, cells must be capable of maintaining an adequate level of energy turnover the synthesis of atp and reducing power and use of these energy currencies in biological work: atp used to prevent increased state of entropy (disorder, nadph (and other reducing powers) used to power reductive steps in biosynthetic processes, summary of challenges faced by organisms in adaption to the environment i. offsetting the direct perturbation of marginally stable biochemical structures by physical and chemical factors ii. A historical perspective: what is physiology : physiology the study of biological function, different levels of physiology cellular, molecular, neural, plant, microbial, vertebrate , different conceptual approaches to physiology comparative, environmenta, ecological, evolutionary, adaptational, integrative , our study of physiology will present the mehanisms of diverse functional systems in a way that elucidates each systems current utilities, its origin, and its interactions with the environmemnt and with other physiological components of the organism.
