Animals Thing Int The Cells Amd Functions Flashcards
Cytoplasm made from?
Dissolved nutrients and salts and structures called organelles.
What happens in the cytoplasm
Where most of chemical reactions take place
What does the nucleus contain
Generic material including DNA
What does the DNA in a certain bit do?
Controls the cells activity (bit = nucleus)
What is the cells membrane
It is a structure that is permeable to some substances but not others. So it controls the movement of substances in and out of the cells
What does the cell membrane do?
Controls substances going in and out of the cell
What do mitochondria contain
Respiration enzymes
What happens in the mitochondria
Where most of the energy is released in repiration
What is the ribosome made out of
Tiny structures
What happens in the ribosomes
Protein synthesis
What is protein synthesis
The process in which cells make proteins. The DNA gets transcripted and the code of protein is read. The code is then translated into and used to make protein molecules. On the ribosomes.
