Bio Exam 2 (Chapter 6) Flashcards
What type of cell is in protists, fungi, animals, and plants?
Eukaryotic Cells
What type of cell is in bacteria and archaea?
Prokaryotic Cells
What is the interior of any cell?
Cytoplasm
What houses the cell’s DNA in a eukaryotic cell?
Nucleus
What uses info from DNA to make proteins?
Ribosome
What is a double membrane that encloses the nucleus?
Nuclear envelope
What structures carry the genetic information?
Chromosomes
What are the proteins that make up chromosomes?
Chromatin
What separates the cell into different compartments, or organelles, such as the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the Golgi apparatus, and lysosomes
Endomembrane System
What is a network of membranous tubules within the cytoplasm of a eukaryotic cell, continuous with the nuclear membrane
Endoplasmic Reticulum
What part of the Endoplasmic Reticulum is involved in metabolic processes and the synthesis of lipids?
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
What part of the Endoplasmic Reticulum is involved in the synthesis of proteins?
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
What is a biological structure that performs a distinctive function inside a cell
Organelle
What is an organelle in eukaryotic cells that consist of flat membranous sacs that modify, store, and route products of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and synthesize products?
Golgi Apparatus
What is a membranous sac of hydrolytic enzymes that eukaryotic cells use to digest (hydrolyze) macromolecules?
Lysosome