What Is a Peer-To-Peer Network

question 72

Multiple Choice

What is a peer-to-peer network?

• A) Enables the transmission of data over public or private networks
• B) A communications, data exchange, and resource-sharing system created by linking two or more computers and establishing standards, or protocols, so that they can work together
• C) Any network without a central file server and in which all computers in the network have access to the public files located on all other workstations
• D) A computer that is designed to request information from a server

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Definitions:

Rhodopsin

Visual purple; a light-sensitive pigment found in the rod cells of the vertebrate eye; a similar molecule is employed by certain bacteria in the capture of light energy to make ATP.

Signal Transduction

Signal transduction is the process by which a cell responds to external signals, converting them into cellular responses through a complex series of events.

Enzyme-Linked Receptor

A type of cell surface receptor that, upon binding to its ligand, activates an intrinsic enzymatic activity, leading to a cellular response.

Extracellular Kinases

Enzymes found outside of cells that play critical roles in various signal transduction pathways, affecting processes from growth to programmed cell death.