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1
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What is the nucleus surrounded by?

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The Nuclear Envelope-A double Membrane.

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In what type of cell is a nucleus found?

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All Eukaryotic (other than RBC)

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How is the nucleus separated from the cytoplasm?

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A Double Membrane

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What is the size of the nucleus?

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Relatively Large

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What does the nuclear envelope contain?

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Pores

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What does the pores in the nuclear envelope allow?

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Molecules (mRNA and ribosomes) to enter and leave the nucleus.

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What 2 other features does the nucleus contain?

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Chromatin and nucleolus

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What is the nucleolus a site of?

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Site of ribosome production.

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9
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What is chromatin?

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Chromosomes made of sections of linear DNA tightly wound around proteins called histones.

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What are the two types of Endoplasmic Reticulum?

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Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (RER)Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

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11
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Which Cells is RER found?

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Plant and Animal Cells

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What is the surface of RER covered in?

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Ribosomes

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What is RER formed of?

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Continuous folas of membrane with the nuclear envelope.

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14
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What does the RER process?

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Proteins made by the ribosomes.

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15
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Where is the ER found?

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Plant and Animal Cells.

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What on the surface does RER have that ER doesn’t have?

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Ribosomes, function is distinct to the RER.

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17
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What processes is the RER involved in and for what molecules?

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Production, Processing and storage of lipids, carbohydrates and steroids.

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18
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Where is the Golgi Apparatus found?

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Plant and Animal Cells

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What is the Golgi Apparatus like?

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Flattened sacs of membrane, similar to the ER.

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What is the role of the Golgi Apparatus?

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Modifies proteins and lipids before packaging them into Golgi vesicles.

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21
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What does the Golgi Vesicles do?

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Transport proteins and lipids to destination.

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22
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What happens to the proteins that go through the Golgi apparatus.

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Usually exported, then put into lysosomes or delivered to membrane bound organelles.

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Where are ribosomes found?

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In all cells.

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Which part of the cell are ribosomes found?

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Found freely in the cytoplasm of all cells or as part of the RER.

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What is each ribosome a complex of?

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Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and proteins.

26
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What ribosomes are in Eukaryote’s?

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80S ribosomes (60S and 40S subunits)

27
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What ribosomes are in Prokaryote’s , Mitochondria and Chloroplasts?

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70S ribosomes (50S and 30S subunits)

28
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What are ribosomes the site of?

A

Translation (Protein Synthesis)

29
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What are Lysosomes?

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Specialist forms of vesicles which contain hydrolytic enzymes (break down biological molecules)

30
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What do lysosomes break down?

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Waste materials e.g. worn out organelles.

31
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Which specific cells are Lysosomes used in?

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Used extensively by cells of the immune system and in apoptosis.

32
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In what type of cells are chloroplasts found?

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In plant cells.

33
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Are chloroplasts larger or smaller than Mitochondria?

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Larger.

34
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What are chloroplasts surrounded by?

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A double membrane.

35
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What is the membrane bound organelle which contains chlorophyll?

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Thylakoids

36
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What do the Thylakoids do?

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Stack to form structures called grana.

37
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What joins the grana together?

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Lamellae.

38
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Chloroplasts are the site of what

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site of photosynthesis.

39
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Where does the light-independent stage happen?

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Stroma.

40
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Where does the light-dependent stage happen?

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Thylakoids.

41
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What are all cells surrounded by?

A

A Plasma Membrane

42
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What is the role of the Plasma Membrane?

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Controls the exchange of materials between the internal cell environment and the external environment.

43
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The Plasma Membrane is…

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Partially Permeable.

44
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The plasma cell membrane is formed from what?

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A phospholipid bilayer of phospholipids around 10nm wide.

45
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The structure looks static, but what is actually constantly moving?

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The phospholipids and proteins forming the bilayer.

46
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What are Centrioles?

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Hollow fibres made of microtubules.

47
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How is a Centrosomes formed?

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Two centrioles at rights angles to each other.

48
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What does a Centrosome do?

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Organises the spindle fibres during cell division.

49
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Where are the Centrioles not found?

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In flowering plants and fungi.

50
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What are cilia?

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Hair like projections.

51
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What are cilia made out of?

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Microtubules.

52
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What is the role of cilia?

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Allows the movement of substances over cell surface.

53
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Where is the flagella found?

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Specialised Cells.

54
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What is the structure of the flagella?

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Made of long microtubes, similar to the cilia.

55
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In what cells is the cell wall found?

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In plant cells only.

56
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Where is the cell wall and what is it’s role?

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Formed outside of the cell membrane and offers structural support to cell.

57
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How is this structural support given?

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Given by the polysaccharide cellulose in plants and pepticloglycan in most bacterial cells.

58
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What connects the cytoplasm of neighbouring plant cells to the cell wall?

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Narrow threads (surrounded by cell membrane) called plasmodesmata.

59
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What is the permeability of the cell wall to most substances?

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Freely permeable.

60
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The cell wall is freely permeable, unlike what other sub-cellular structure?

A

The Plasma Cell Membrane.

Biology-Cell Structure (7 decks)

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