Biomed Unit 4.1 and 4.2 Vocab
Amino Acid-the building blocks from which proteins are constructed
Alpha-Globin- blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
Anemia- a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
Prognosis-a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery
Trait-This passed on in sex chromosones
Symptom a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies aparticular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
Beta-globin
the chain of hemoglobin that is designated beta and that when deficient or defective causes various anemias (as beta-thalassemia or sickle-cell anemia)
Complication
a secondary disease or condition that develops in the course of a primary disease or condition and arises either as a result of it or from independent causes
Hemoglobin
an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that functions primarily in the transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body, that consists of four polypeptide chains of which two are of the type designated alpha and two are of one of the types designated beta, gamma, or delta and each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that combines loosely and reversibly with oxygen in the lungs or gills to form oxyhemoglobin and with carbon dioxide in the tissues to form carbhemoglobin, that in humans is present normally in blood to the extent of 14 to 16 grams in 100 milliliters expressed sometimes on a scale of 0 to 100 with an average normal value (as 15 grams) taken as 100, and that is determined in blood either colorimetrically or by quantitative estimation of the iron present
Autosome- any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
Chromosome- any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carrythe genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs,designated 1 to
Alpha-Globin- blood plasma protein that is separable from other globulins by electrophoresis.
Anemia- a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
Prognosis-a forecasting of the probable course and outcome of a disease, especially of the chances of recovery
Trait-This passed on in sex chromosones
Symptom a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies aparticular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
Beta-globin
the chain of hemoglobin that is designated beta and that when deficient or defective causes various anemias (as beta-thalassemia or sickle-cell anemia)
Complication
a secondary disease or condition that develops in the course of a primary disease or condition and arises either as a result of it or from independent causes
Hemoglobin
an iron-containing respiratory pigment of vertebrate red blood cells that functions primarily in the transport of oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body, that consists of four polypeptide chains of which two are of the type designated alpha and two are of one of the types designated beta, gamma, or delta and each of which is linked to a heme molecule, that combines loosely and reversibly with oxygen in the lungs or gills to form oxyhemoglobin and with carbon dioxide in the tissues to form carbhemoglobin, that in humans is present normally in blood to the extent of 14 to 16 grams in 100 milliliters expressed sometimes on a scale of 0 to 100 with an average normal value (as 15 grams) taken as 100, and that is determined in blood either colorimetrically or by quantitative estimation of the iron present
Autosome- any chromosome other than a sex chromosome.
Chromosome- any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carrythe genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs,designated 1 to