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nucleus function

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cell management, cell behaviour when cell divides

looks like a big black spotty ball
might not be black

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nucleolus function

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site where ribosomes are synthesised

looks like egg yolk in nucleus

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vacuoles function+plant

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temporary store of food and water

  • involves in turgidity (plasmolysed,flaccid, cell surface membrane pull away from cell wall)
  • volume decreasing

-endocytosis: phago-solid, pino-fluid
-exocytosis
(use metabolic ATP)

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cell surface membrane function+why selectively perm

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selectively perm barrier across which all substances entering and leaving the cell pass

(phospholipid bilayer: small non-polar molecules
membrane protein: large polar molecules)

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5
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describe active transport (of substance)

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against conc grad, uses metabolic energy in the form of ATP

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describe diffusion (of substance)

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facilitated or not, uses KE only with conc grad

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7
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describe osmosis (of water)

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water potential grad

from where to where across selectively perm what

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red blood cell structure function

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  • haemoglobin, binds to oxygen
  • biconcave, higher SA to vol ratio for diffusion of O2 into the cell
  • lack of nucleus to store more haemo
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root hair cell structure function

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long narrow root hair extension for higher SA to vol ratio for diffusion of mineral salt and osmosis of water into the root hair cell

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xylem cell structure function

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long hollow continuous tube
-transport water from roots to leaves with no obstruction
lack of organelle
-no resistance to water flow
walls thickened with lignin
-strength to prevent collapse of vessel during water transport

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pili/pilus (PROKARYOTIC)

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attach to other cell/surface

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12
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flagellum/lla (PROKARYOTIC)

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momvement

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13
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peptidoglycan cell wall

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(PROKARYOTIC)

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ribosome

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(PROKARYOTIC & eukaryotic)
site of protein syntehsis

look at dots on rER

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rough endoplasmic reticulum

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site of where proteins synthesised by ribosomes are packaged into vesicles

spotty long mushroom joined to nucleus

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smooth endoplasmic reticulum

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lipids and steroid synthesis

smooth long mushroom joined to nucleus

17
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golgi apparatus

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hormones and enzyme synthesis, protein activation (addition of sugars, removal of amino acids)

pancake stack

18
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mitochondrion

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site of aerobic respiration, synthesis of metabolic ATP
undergoes aerobic respiration to release energy in the form of ATP.
small sausage/circle

19
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chloroplast

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site of photosynthesis in which light energy is used as the energy source for carbohydrate and ATP synthesis

HUMONGOUS sausage with pointy ends

20
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glycoprotein

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channel for transport of metabolites and water

beads on top of large bump

21
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glycolipid

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cell-cell recognition

beads tree