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Cell Structure and Function/Cell Membrane Flashcards

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What all cells have in common

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each cell has a plasma membrane, a boundary between its interior and outside environment. The interior consists of cytoplasm and an innermost region of DNA

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Prokaryotic Cells

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Bacteria, internal membrane enclosed

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Eukaryotic Cells

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Cells of protists, plants, fungi and animals are eukaryotic. Have a nucleus and other membrane-enclosed compartments.

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Cytoskeleton

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Diverse protein filaments reinforce a cell’s shape and keep its parts organized.

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Cell Theory (text)

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a foundation of modern bio, states cells re the fundamental unit of all life

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Cell Theory four generalizations

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Every living organism consists of one or more cells
smallest unit of life
all living cells come from division of other, pre existing cells
cells contain hereditary material

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Cell

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the smallest unit that shows the properties of life

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Eukaryotic Cell

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divided into various functional compartments, including a nucelus

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Prokaryotic cells

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usually smaller, simpler, none has a nucleus

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Plasma Membrane

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the cell’s outer membrane. Separates metabolic activities from events outside of the cell, but does not isolate the cell’s interior. Water, CD, and Ox can cross.

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Nucleus

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double membraned sac holds a eukaryotic cell’s dna.

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Nucleoid

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The DNA inside prokaryotic cells is concentrated in a region of cytoplasm

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Cytoplasm

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A semifluid mixture of water, sugars, ions, and proteins between plasma membrane. Suspend cell components

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Ribosomes

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structure where proteins are built

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Surface to volume ratio

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strongly influences cell size and shape. An object’s volume increase with the cube of its diameter, but its surface area increases only with the square.

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Lipid bilayer

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Structural foundation of all cell membranes, double layer of lipids organized so that their hydrophobic tails are sandwiched between their hydrophilic heads

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Phospholipids

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most abundant type of lipid in cell membrane

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Modern Microscopes

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curved glass lenses bend light and focus it as a magnified image of the specimen

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Transmission Electron Microscope

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electrons passing through thin slice of specimen illuminate a fluorescent screen.

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Flagella

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slender cellular structures used for motion. A bacterial flagellum moves like a propeller that drives cell

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Pili

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project from the surface of some bacterial species, helps cling to or move across surfaces. (one sperm)

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Biofilms

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Single celled organisms live in a shared mass of slime

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Organelle

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Structures inside the cells, for example a nucleus

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Nucelus

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Protecting controlling access to DNA

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Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

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Routing, modifying new polypeptide chains; synthesizing lipids; other tasks

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Golgi Body

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Modifying new polypeptide chains; sorting, shipping proteins and lipids

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Vesicles

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Transporting, storing, or digesting substances in a cell; other functions

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Mitochondrion

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Making ATP by sugar breakdown

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Chloroplast

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Making sugars in plants, some protists

Conducts photosynthesis

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Lysosome

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Intracellular digestion

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Peroxisome

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Inactivating toxins

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Vacuole

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dispose of waste

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Ribosomes

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Assembling polypeptide chains

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Centriole

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Anchor for cytoskeleton

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Rough ER

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modifies proteins

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Smooth ER

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makes lipids, breaks down carbs

37
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golgi body

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ships lipids, enzymes and secretes proteins

38
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Chloroplast

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Specializes in photosynthesis

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Nuclear Envelope

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Pore riddled double membrane that controls which substances enter and leave the nucleus

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Nucleoplasm

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Semifluid Interior portion of the nucleus

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Nucleolus

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Rounded mass of proteins and copies of genes for ribosomal RNA used to construct ribosomal subunits

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Chromatin

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Total collection of all DNA Molecules and associated proteins in the nucleus; all of the cell’s chromosomes

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Chromosome

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One DNA molecule and many proteins associated with it

we have 46 chromosomes

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Endomembrane system

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set of organelles that makes, modifies, and transport proteins and lipids. Main function is to make lipids, enzymes and proteins for secretion or insertion into cell membrane.

45
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Vesicles

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small, membrane-enclosed, saclike organelles. Transport substances from one organelle to another

46
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Peroxisomes

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contains enzymes that digest fatty acids and amino acids

47
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Plastids

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membrane enclosed, function in photosynthesis or storage in plants like chloroplast

48
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Central Vacuole

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keeps leaves firm, fluid pressure.

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Primary wall

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secreting strands of cellulose into the coating.

50
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Cuticle

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protective body covering made of cell secretions

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Extracellular matrix (ECM)

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supports and anchors cells, separates tissues, and functions in cell signaling

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Cell junction

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structures that connect a cell to other cells and to the environment

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Cytoskeleton

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reinforce, organize and move cell structures

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Microtubules

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are long, hollow cylinders that consist of subunits of the protein tubulin

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Microfilaments

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strengthen or change shape of eukaryotic cells

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Cell cortex

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A reinforcing mesh under the plasma membrane

57
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Motor proteins

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move cell parts in a sustain direction when they are repeatedly energized by ATP

58
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Robert Hooke

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First to visualize non living cells through a microscope to sketch and name cells

59
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Anton Van

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Fancy glass

60
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Robert Brown

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first to identify a cell nucleus

61
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DNA purines

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Adenine and guanine

62
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DNA primidines

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Thymine and cytosine

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