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Basic Components of living system Flashcards

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What is a dry mount?

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Solid secimins are views as a whole or cut in slices

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What is a wet mount?

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Specimens are suspended in a liquid

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What is squash slides?

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The sample is squished between two slides

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What is smear slides?

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edge of a slide used to smear the sample creating a thin even coating

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How do you calculate magnification?

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size of image / actual size of object

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What is magnification?

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how many times larger the image is than the actual size of the object

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What is resolution?

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The ability to see individual objects as separate entities

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What are the two types of cells?

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Eukaryota and Prokarytic

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What are prokaryotic?

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It is a singled cells organism

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What is a Eukaryota?

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It is a multi cellular organism

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What does the nucleus contain and its function?

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Contain code of genetic information
Controls metabolic activities
It controls the activities within cell

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What is a nucleolus?

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This is responsible for production, composed of proteins and RNA

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What is the function of mitochondria?

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It is the site of aerobic respiration

It is the organelle where most ATP is made

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What is the function of a cell surface membrane (plasma membrane) and where is it found?

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This controls which substances enter and leave the cell.
It also acts as a hormone receptor
It is found on the surface of animal cells and under the cell wall on plant cells.

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What is the function of vesicles and where are they found?

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A small fluid filled sac used to store and transport substances
They can be found anywhere in the cell

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What is the functions of lysosomes?

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They contain digestive enzymes, used to break down waste.

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What is the function of a cytoskeleton?

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In all eukaryotic cells, network of fibres, important for shape and stability of the cell

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What is the function of microfilaments?

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Cells movement in cytokinesis

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What is the function of microtubles?

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Determines shape of cell

20
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What is the function of a flagella?

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It is use to enable cell mobility and detecting chemical changes

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What is the function of cilia?

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Small hair like structures found on the surface membrane. The microtubules allow the cilia to move.

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What is the function of the smooth endoplasic reticulum?

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Sythesisies and processes lipids

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What is the function of the rough endoplasic reticulum?

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Has ribosomes bound to the surface, it is used for systheis and transport of protiens

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What is the function of the golgi apparatus?

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This modifies and packages proteins and lipids into vesicles. Also produces lysosomes.

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What is the function of cellulose in the cell wall?

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It keeps the plants rigid structure which supports plant cells

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What is the function of a vacuole within a plant?

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It contains sap, it maintains turgor so contents push against the cell wall maintained a rigid framework surrounded by a tonoplast

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What is the function of chloroplasts?

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Site of photosynthesis

28
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What are the characteristics of a light microscope

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Maximum resolution of 0.2nm
Magnification of x1500
Can use dead or living samples

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What are some advantages and disadvantages of light microscopes?

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+ Cheap and easy to use
+ Dont distort image
- Not very powerful
- Cant see 3D or inside cells

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What are the characteristics of a Laser scanning co focal microscope?

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Special type of light microscope

Multiple images are produced combined to create a 3D image

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What are the characteristics of a transition electron microscope?

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Uses electromagnets to focus beam of electrons used to produce 2D images.
Resolution of 0.002um
Magnification of x1,000,000

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What are some advantages and disadvantages of transition electron microscopes?

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+ very high resolution
+ show internal structures of an organelle
- specimens need to be thinly sliced distorting them
- expensive and need to be installed

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What are the characteristics of a scanning electron microscope?

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Produces 3D images but scanning an electron beam across the specimen
Resolutions of 0.002um
Magnification of 500,000

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