BIOM 100 Quizzes

difference between mass and weight

-mass is a scalar and never changes -weight is a vector and is a result of the gravitational force on an object

True

Materials are used to make catheters are considered biomaterials

true

Studying how blood flows through our body is part of biomechanics

False

Titanium is biocompatible

Bioimaging cannot distinguish between benign and aggressive tumors.

True

false

a material can be said to be biocompatible w/o specifying the host response to the specific application

____ pressure is the pressure that your heart emits when blood is forced out of the heart and ________ pressure is the pressure exerted when the heart is relaxed.

a. Systolic, diastolic

To image cells___ would be the best technique. To image molecules _____ would be the best technique.

a. optical microscopy, x-ray crystallography

fabricate the materials into a device

an engineers role in making a new pacemaker would most likely be

high density and/or high atomic number tissue

cause more x-ray beam attenuation

plasmids

circular units of DNA engineered to carry genes to be inserted into the cells

skin

combination

glucose oxidase

common enzyme used for glucose detection

nerves

communication

bacteriophaes

engineered to be a vessel to carry genes to be inserted into cells

Bioimaging relates to methods that invasively visualize biological processes in real time

false

a significant smaller thermoelectric difference between the two materials will result in better thermocouple performance.

false

biotechnology is a new concept

false

kinematics is determining causes of motion and kinetic is motion descrption

false

modern biosensors cannot detect single molecule

false

pluripotent stem cells are the ones that produce all the cell types

false

aspirin

is not an example of biotechnology drug

crtilage

mechanical

liver

metabolic

bioreceptor

molecule that specifically recognizes the analyte

bone marrow

most prolific organ in the body

MRIs employ powerful magnets which produce a strong magnetic field that forces __________ in the body to align with that field.

protons

1. Ear thermometers often sense IR radiation emanated from the membranes of the ear. This is measured using a __________ crystal

pyroelectric

not an example of cell based therapy

scaffolds madeto recruit host cells

stiffnes

the slope of force/displacement curve

drug behavior

this is not part of phase 2 in drug development

When the cuff pressure is higher than arterial pressure, the blood flow will be stopped.

true

blood ph sensor is not considered a biosensor

true

tissue engineering can have therapeutic application

true

vectors are units where size units and direction must be specified

true

venous tubes have larger cross-sectional area than arterial tubes

true

very reproducible indicate high recision

true

Polymers

type of material that sutures are most likely made of

DNA ligase

used to paste new genes into a DNA sequence

restriction enzyme

used to snip specific genes like DNA