You work for a pharmaceutical company where you are assigned the task of creating new drug therapies to treat thyroid disorders such as hyperthyroidism (high levels of T3 and T4) and hypothyroidism (low levels of T3 and T4). Your team has designed a few drugs, and your job is to identify which drug(s) would be successful in treating thyroid disorders based on your knowledge of thyroid hormone synthesis. Below is the list of drugs your team designed (all of these are hypothetical drugs). [1] Explain the pathway and negative feedback loop involved in thyroid hormone production beginning with the hypothalamus. [2] What factors can cause hyperthyroidism? What factors can cause hypothyroidism. [3] Identify the drug(s) that would be successful in treating hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Explain why and how they would be successful. Peroxidine: A drug that inhibits thyroid peroxidase from functioning Cimigine: A drug that inhibits potassium/iodine cotransporter Iodimine: A drug that inhibits iodinase from functioning Aldosine: A drug that inhibits production of angiotensinogen from the liver Aldoramine: A drug that inhibits sodium/iodine cotransporter Thyromine: A drug that stimulates thyroglobulin production Be detailed in your explanation and support your answer with facts from your textbook, research, and articles from scholarly journals. In addition, remember to add references in APA format to your posts to avoid plagiarism. 3

Characteristics of Living Things (50 points)Living things share 8 characteristics, A living thing grows, undergoes metabolism, responds to its environment, reproduces, passes DNA to the next generation, maintains homeostasis, changes over time, and is made up of cells. A non-living thing may seem to do one or more of these things, but to be classified as living; all eight characteristics must be present. Sometimes, you may see something that seems alive but is not. Though you can’t see it, you have likely experienced it; one of those things is a virus.Answer BOTH of the following questions: Using all 8 of the characteristics that define life, indicate which one(s) viruses have and which one(s) they do not, and explain each difference. With these results, present an argument that a virus is a living thing. Then, present the opposite argument that viruses are not alive. You can fill out a table like this (though this is not required): Characteristic Virus (yes, no, maybe, sort of) Explanation Reproduce Pass along their traits through DNA Consume energy sources and expel waste products to maintain homeostasis Respond to their environments Respond to stimulus Change over time Can differ as individuals while still being part of a species Are made up of cells