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Cells Flashcards

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

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Invented the first microscope

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Robert Hooke

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Invented the compound microscope/named cells

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Robert Brown

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Named the nucleus

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Schleiden

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All plants are made of cells

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Schwann

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All animals are made of cells

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Smallest Unit of Life

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Cells

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Prokaryotic Cells

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ONLY BACTERIA they have a very simple structure and are very old

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Eukaryotic Cells

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Very complex and relatively new, plant and animals

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Nucleus

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The cellular control center, holds DNA

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Rough ER

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Has ribosomes and is a place to assimilate proteins, right next to the nucleus and has ribosomes on it

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Ribosomes

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Synthesize proteins, has small and large part

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mRNA

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Makes copy of DNA and leaves through the nuclear pores to give info to the ribosomes

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Lumen

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The inner part of the rough er

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14
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Smooth ER

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Lipid synthesis, steroid synthesis, calcium storage

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Transport Vesicle

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Fat bubble made out of membrane to move proteins around

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Golgi Apparatus

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Stacks of sacs that are the “post office” for proteins (tell them where to go, fix them, send them places)

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Cytoplasm

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Mostly water, surrounds organelles, place where chemical reactions take place

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18
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Mitochondria

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POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL does cellular respiration

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Lysosome

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“Garbage can” for worn-out cell parts

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Peroxisome

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Break down things (similar to lysosome) and makes hydrogen peroxide as a waste

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Autophagy/Autophagosomes

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Gobbles up worn out things in the cell

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Apoptosis

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Cell suicide

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Vacuoles

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Vacuole:
Storage of stuff
Food Vacuole:
helps digest food
Contractile Vacuole:
Pumps water out of cell

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Cytoskeleton

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Supporting structure of cell made of microtubules, intermediate filaments and microfilaments

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Microtubules

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Part of cytoskeleton, made of tubulin protein, molecular motors

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Intermidiate Filaments

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They anchor chromatin and are found in muscle, tissue, etc.

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Microfilaments/Actin Filaments

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Made of actin protein, facilitate cyclosis

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Centrioles

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Made of microtubules and facilitate cellular division

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Plastids

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Luceoplasts and Chromoplasts are storage sites

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Cillia

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Short little hairs in a 9+2 microtubule arrangement that moves the cell around

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Flagella

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A long tail that moves the cell around (sperm) 9+2 microtubule arrangement

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Cell Membrane

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Made of phospholipids and glycoprotein (facilitate diffusion) SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE

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Extracellular Matrix

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Connected to the cytoskeleton viz integrin proteins and they give support

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Endomembrane System

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The organisms involved in protein synthesis, Nuleous, Ribosomes, ER, Lysosomes, Golgi, Transport Vesicle

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Differences Between Plant and Animal Cells

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Plant Cells Have:
-cell wall
-chloroplasts
-one big vacuole
Animal Cells Have:
-centrioles
-many small vacuoles

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Endosymbiotic Theory

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Mitochondria and chloroplast evolved from bacteria and were eaten by other cells and assimilated into them

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Why Cells Are Small

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They are more efficient and can get waste/nutrients out/in faster

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Surface Area to Volume Ratio

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Volume increases at a higher rate than the surface area

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Can Cross Cell Membrane Freely

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-lipid-like molecules
-small uncharged molecules

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Need Help to Cross Cell Membrane

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-some small molecules
-charged substances

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Can’t Cross Cell Membrane

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-large molecules

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Aquaporin

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channels that facilitate water crossing the cell membrane

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Diffusion

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Molecules move from high concentration to low concentration HIGH TO LOW WAY TO GO needs a concentration gradient (no energy)

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Facilitated Diffusion

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Needs a transport protein but doesn’t require energy still needs a concentration gradient

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water (high to low OR low solute to high solute)

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Hypertonic

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Contains more solute than something else

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Hypotonic

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Contains less solute than something else

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Isotonic

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Contains the same amount of solute as something else

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Lysed Cell

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All the water rushed in because the cell was in a hypotonic environment and the cell gets blown up

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Crenated Cell

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A shriveled cell because it was in a hypertonic environment and the water left

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Flacid

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Normal plant cell (floppy)

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Turgid

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Stiff with a lot of water (happiest state for plant)

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Shrivled

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Shrivled plant cell because the water rushed out

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Active Transport

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Moves materials LOW to HIGH and needs energy

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Endocytosis

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Transporting things into a cell
-pinocytosis
-phagocytosis

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Pinocytosis

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Uses a transport vesicle (nonspecific)

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Phagocytosis

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Cell membrane wraps around thing coming in (non-specific)

58
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Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis

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Bacteria uses proteins to get the cell to recognize it in order to get allowed into the cell

59
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Exocytosis

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Moving things out of the cell

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