Energy Storage in Humans A 4-column table with 3 rows. Column 1 is unlabeled with entries Free Glucose in Blood, Glycogen, Lipids (Fats). Column 2 is labeled K cal per Gram with entries 4, 4, 9. Column 3 is labeled Energy Storage (k cal) with entries 40, 600 to 1600, 10,000. Column 4 is labeled Life Support Time with entries Few minutes, 1 day, 30 to 40 days.

What is the best conclusion based on this data?

Blood is a primary location for energy storage.
Fat molecules contain more energy-containing bonds than simple sugars.
A gram of glycogen has twice as much energy as a gram of fat.
The human body stores approximately 1,000 kcal of glucose.

c.) polymerase chain reaction

- "unlike the original dna fingerprinting method, dna profiling does not use restriction enzymes to cut the dna. instead it uses the polymerase chain reaction (pcr)? to produce many copies of specific str sequences. pcr is an automated procedure that generates lots of copies of a specific sequence of dna."

step 1: initiation

initiation is the beginning of transcription. it occurs when the enzyme rna polymerase binds to a region of a gene called the promoter. this signals the dna to unwind so the enzyme can ‘‘read’’ the bases in one of the dna strands. the enzyme is now ready to make a strand of mrna with a complementary sequence of bases.

step 2: elongation

elongation is the addition of nucleotides to the mrna strand. rna polymerase reads the unwound dna strand and builds the mrna molecule, using complementary base pairs. there is a brief time during this process when the newly formed rna is bound to the unwound dna. during this process, an adenine (a) in the dna binds to an uracil (u) in the rna.

step 3: termination

termination is the ending of transcription, and occurs when rna polymerase crosses a stop (termination) sequence in the gene. the mrna strand is complete, and it detaches from dna.