Biomedical Science 2.0 Terms

The maintenance of relatively stable internal physiological conditions (as body temperature or the pH of blood) in higher animals under fluctuating environmental conditions.

• Homeostasis
• Glucagon
• Glucose
• Hydrolysis

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Diabetes of a form that usually develops during childhood or adolescence and is characterized by a severe deficiency of insulin, leading to high blood glucose levels.

• Type 1 Diabetes
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Hydrolysis
• Positive Feedback

Feedback that tends to magnify a process or increase its output.

• Positive Feedback
• Negative Feedback
• Homeostasis
• Glucose Tolerance Test

A product of living cells that circulates in blood and produces a specific, often stimulatory, effect on the activity of cells that are often far from the source of the hormone. 

• Hormone
• Insulin
• Glucagon
• Glucose

A sugar in the form of a monosaccharide, disaccharide or polysaccharide.

• Carbohydrate
• Lipid
• Protein
• Nutrient

A substance (as a dye) used to show visually usually by its capacity for color change, the condition of a solution with respect to the presence of free acid or alkali or some other substance.

• Chemical Indicator
• Chemical Reaction
• Macromolecule
• Molecule

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A compound composed of adenosine and three phosphate groups that supplies energy for many biochemical cellular processes by undergoing enzymatic hydrolysis.

• Adenosine tri-phosphate (ATP)
• Macromolecule
• Calorie
• Chemical Indicator

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NGSS.HS-LS2-3

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Chemical transformation or change; the interaction of chemical entities.

• Chemical Reaction
• Glucose
• Carbohydrate
• Chemical Indicator

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NGSS.HS-PS1-2

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A primary mechanism of homeostasis, whereby a change in a physiological variable that is being monitored triggers a response that counteracts the initial fluctuation.

• Negative Feedback
• Positive Feedback
• Homeostasis
• Type 1 Diabetes

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

A test of the body’s ability to metabolize glucose that involves the administration of a measured dose of glucose to the fasting stomach and the determination of blood glucose levels in the blood or urine at intervals thereafter and that is used especially to detect diabetes.

• Glucose Tolerance Test
• Glucagon
• Chemical Indicator
• Type 2 Diabetes

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