How does the muscular system humans maintain posture? muscles continually align themselves vertically to maintain posture. muscles continually push bones to be straight. muscles constantly contract and relax to fight gravity. muscles constantly contract and relax to work with gravity.

Penicillin is hydrolyzed and thereby rendered inactive by penicillinase (also known as β-lactamase), an enzyme present in some resistant bacteria. the mass of this enzyme in staphylococcus aureus is 29.6 kd. the amount of penicillin hydrolyzed in 1 minute in a 10-ml solution containing 10-9 g of purified penicillinase was measured as a function of the concentration of penicillin. assume that the concentration of penicillin does not change appreciably during the assay. penicillin(μm) amount hydrolyzed(nmol) 1 0.11 3 0.25 5 0.34 10 0.45 30 0.58 50 0.61 (a) plot v0 versus [s] and 1/v0 versus 1/[s] for these data. does penicillinase appear to obey michaelis-menten kinetics? if so, what is the value of km? (b) what is the value of vmax? (c) what is the turnover number of penicillinase under these experimental conditions? assume one active site per enzyme molecule.

How does the closing of the ductus arteriosus and ductus venosus alter circulation in an infant? a. increases blood flow to the pulmonary artery and increases blood flow to the umbilical vein b. increases blood flow to the pulmonary artery and reduces blood flow to the umbilical vein c. reduces blood flow to the pulmonary vein and increases blood flow to the umbilical artery d. reduces blood flow to the pulmonary vein and reduces blood flow to the umbilical artery

Imagine that you are searching your room for a textbook. which portion of the cortex would be most active during this search?