Proteins function optimally at a specific temperature. So if you get too hot or too cold, biochemical reactions in your body start to function less well. If the situation becomes extreme enough, they can cease to function well enough to sustain life.
Warm-blooded animals have an advantage over cold-blooded ones in that their bodies automatically try to maintain the optimal termperature for things in their bodies to function. Cold-blooded animals depend on the environmental temperature to do this for them. That's why reptiles are very sluggish when they're cold, but will "wake up" when they get warm.
The cost to this benefit is that metabolically, warm-blooded animals require a lot more fuel to run their bodies. It's very energy-intensive to maintain a constant body temperature. Cold-blooded animals require far less fuel than warm-blooded ones relative to their size.
The way that proteins operate in a specific temperature is also true of the pH in your body which is also very tightly maintained.
You did not included your list of selections. Some general properties ascribed to DNA are storage and expression of information and variables through mutations. Replication, Transcription, Translation and Mutagenesis are the major functions of DNA in a cell. DNA nucleotides contain deoxyribose. DNA is double-stranded in the conservative mode, the original double Helix remains a complete unit and the new DNA double Helix is produced as a single unit. In the double=stranded DNA, Hydrogen bonds hold one complimentary strand to the other.
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George is lifting weights. He starts by doing biceps curls
which involves flexing his
elbows. His elbow is able to bend
because the humero-ulnar joint is a hinge
joint. Sam is doing leg presses, extending his knees as he pushes
against the weights. Meanwhile, Jane is doing "lat pulls" by pulling
downward on a weighted bar. This movement involves adduction of her arms.
Her shoulder joint is a ball-and-socket joint, allowing
a wide range of movements.
Whatd did she discover?? it doesnt make sense
