Cell Structure and Function, Body cavities, and body sections Flashcards
Cell Structure and Function, Body cavities, and body sections
What is Central Dogma?
DNA to RNA to Protein
What 4 things make up a cell?
Structure, Communication, Waste, and Nutrients
What 4 things does a cell membrane do?
Communicates, has Selective Permeability, has an electrochemical gradient, and is a physical barrier
Membrane is made out of proteins with ___ heads and ___ tails.
Hydrophilic heads and Hydrophobic tails
Kinds of Passive Transport
Passive transport uses no ATP. Simple, facilitated, osmosis, filtrative
Kinds of Active Transport
Uses ATP. Primary, Secondary, vesicular, exo, trans, endo
A hypertonic solution leads to…
Crenation
An isotonic solution leads to…
Nothing, it is stable
A hypotonic solution leads to…
Lysis
Integral receptors interact with the cell membrane how?
They are structural and go all the way through the membrane.
Peripheral receptors interact with the cell membrane how?
They are one-sided.
How are G-protein receptors activated?
By kinases, but indirectly.
Primary function of the nucleus
Stores DNA
What is the nucleolus?
Where most DNA is stored
mRNA
messenger RNA
tRNA
transfer RNA