Cells Flashcards
Surrounded by a nuclear membrane.
Nucleus
What is the function of the nucleus?
Holds DNA and contains the nucleolus
What does the nucleolus produce?
Ribosomes
What carries out protein synthesis in the cell?
Ribosomes.
Where could ribosomes be found?
Suspended in cytosol or bound to the endoplasmic reticulum or nuclear envelope
Responsible for the synthesis of membranes and other metabolic processes
Endoplasmic reticulum
What are the two parts of the endoplasmic reticulum
Smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum.
Give one key difference of the two parts of the endoplasmic reticulum
Smooth contains no ribosomes while rough has it.
What substance does the smooth endoplasmic reticulum release
enzymes.
What are the two products released by the rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Proteins and membranes
What is the warehouse of the cell?
Golgi apparatus.
What does the Golgi apparatus manufacture?
Macromolecules such as polysaccharides.
Responsible for intracellular digestion in the cell.
Lysosome.
What is autophagy?
A process by which a cell breaks down and destroys old, damaged, or abnormal proteins and other substances in its cytoplasm
Large vesicles that form the ER and Golgi apparatus.
Vacuoles
