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1
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Define Prokarya

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Before nucleus

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Define Eukarya

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“True” nucleus

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When were cells discovered?

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In 1665 by Robert Hook

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What is Cell Theory? (hint there’s 3 answers)

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1) All organisms are composed of cells
2) cells are the smallest living thing
3) cells arise from pre-existing cells

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What’s a resolution?

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The minimum distance that 2 points can be apart and still be distinguished as 2 separate points

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What are the 4 types of microscopes?

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1) light - use magnifying lens and visible light
2) electron - use beams of electrons
3) transmission electron - transmit electrons through materials
4) scanning electron - beam electrons onto surface of specimen

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What are the 4 basic structure similarities of all cells? In other words, what do all cells have?

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1) DNA
2) Ribosomes
3) cytoplasm
4) plasma membrane

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What is Cytosol?

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Liquid component of cytoplasm

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What do prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria) lack?

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A nucleus

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What did Robert Hook call cells?

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Cellulae

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What did Matthias Schleiden discover in 1838?

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That cells make up the tissue of plants

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What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek call cells?

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animalcules

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What did Theodor Schwann discover in 1839? What did it lead to?

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Cells make up animal tissues which led to cell theory being born

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What’s Cell Theory?

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The explanation for the observation that all organisms are composed of cells

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What’s the Modern form of Cell Theory? (there are 3 parts)

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1) all organisms have 1+ cell in which metabolism and heredity occur w/in these cells
2) Cells are the smallest living thing and the basic unit of organization of all organisms
3) Cells arise from division of pre-existing cells

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What’s the surface area-to-volume ratio?

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As a cell’s size increases, its volume increases more rapidly than its surface area

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What’s a compound microscope?

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One that magnifies in stages using multiple lenses and resolve structures more than 200 nm apart

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What does Immunohistochemistry use?

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Antibodies to bond to specific proteins after being chemically bonded

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What are prokaryotes?

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simplest organism that primarily has a single circular molecule of DNA found in the nucleoid

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What are eukaryotes?

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Have DNA organized into linear chromosomes segregated into a nucleus

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What’s the difference between a prokaryote and a eukaryote?

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Pro: has nucleotide
Euk: has a nucleus

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What’s cytoplasm?

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Semifluid matrix that fills the interior of the cell

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What’s a ribosome?

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large macromolecular machines made of RNA and protein that synthesizes all cellular proteins

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What’s the plasma membrane?

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an enclosure of a cell that separates its contents from its surroundings

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What’s a plasmodesmata (in plants)?

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Where plants are connected in the cell walls

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What’re flagella?

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a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility

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What’s a gap junction?

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intercellular connections between a multitude of animal cell-types. They directly connect the cytoplasm of two cells, which allows various molecules, ions and electrical impulses to directly pass through a regulated gate between cells

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What’re tight junctions?

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Leak-proof seals that surrounds an epithelial cell

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What’s an Adherens junction?

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cell-cell adhesion complexes that are continuously assembled and disassembled, allowing cells within a tissue to respond to forces, biochemical signals and structural changes in their microenvironment

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What is a Bacterial Microcompartment (BCM)?

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something that isolates a specific metabolic process or stores a particular substance

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Define Cell Walls

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Walls that protect the cell, maintain its shape, and prevent excess uptake/loss of water

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What are bacteria flagella?

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protein rings embedded in the plasma membrane and a cell wall w/ long protein fibers extending from this

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What’s archaellum?

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a structure that appears related to a different bacterial external structure known as a pilus and formed by a disk of membrane proteins w/ a protein filament extending from the cell

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What’s the endromembrane system?

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a system that weaves through the cell interior and has numerous organelles that are used to compartmentalize multiple biochemical processes

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What’s the central vacuole?

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a large membrane-bounded sac that stores proteins, pigments, and waste materials in plant cells

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Whta’s a visicle?

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small sacs that store and transport a variety of materials

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What’s a nucleus?

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Found in the center of a cell, it has genetic info that enables the synthesis of nearly all proteins

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What’s a nucleous?

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a region where intensive synthesis of the ribosomal RNA takes place

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What’s a nuclear envelope?

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surface of the nucleus which is bounded by 2 phospholipid bilayered membranes

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What are nuclear pores?

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Small holes on the surface of the nuclear envelope that allow ions and small molecules to diffuse freely between the nucleoplasm and cytoplasm while controlling the passage of proteins and RNA-protein complexes

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What’s a nuclear lamina?

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the inner surface of the nuclear envelope; gives nucleus its shape

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What’s a chromatin?

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a complex structure in which DNA is divided into multiple linear chromosomes and organized with proteins

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What is rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER)?

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attachment of ribosomes to the membrane and gives a rough appearance; synthesis of proteins is secreted

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What’s smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER)?

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relatively few bounded ribosomes that have a variety of function; makes membranes

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What’s the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)?

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the largest internal membrane in eukaryotic cells

46
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What does a Golgi apparatus do?

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collects, packages and distributes molecules synthesized at one location and used at another w/in the cell or outside of it

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What’s the receiving end of a Golgi apparatus called? Where’s it located?

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Cis face; located near ER

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What’s the exit end of the Golgi apparatus called?

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Trans face

49
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How do proteins transport through the end-membrane system? (hint, there’s 4 parts)

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1) proteins synthesized by ribosomes on RER; transported to ER
2) diffused through cell and fused w/ cis face
3) modified, packaged into vesicles for transport
4) travel in vesicles to either the plasma membrane to go outside or to other locations in the cell via the trans face

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What are lipid droplets?

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organelles w/ different structures from the rest of the end-membrane system and consist of a neutral lipid core surrounded by a layer of phospholipid

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What are micro bodies?

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things that contain enzymes in the cells that help eukaryotic cells organize their metabolism

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What’s a peroxisome contain?

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enzymes that oxidize fatty acids

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What’s a tonoplast?

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channels for water outside vacuoles that help the cell maintain its tonicity

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What’s a grana?

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closed compartments of stacked membranes in chloroplasts

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What’s a thylakoid?

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light-capturing photosynthesis pigment in grana

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What’s a amyloplast?

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a leucoplast that stores the starch, amylose

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What’s a leucoplast?

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a DNA-containing organelle that lacks pigment and complex internal structure; could serve as a starch storage area

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How is a plastid produced?

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division of existing placids; are chloroplasts, leucoplasts and amyloplasts

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What’s the Theory of Endosymbiosis?

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Some of todays eukaryotic organelles evolved by a symbiosis (relationship) between 2 free living cells in which a prokaryote (was one cell) got engulfed and became a new cell (eukaryote) ; examples being the mitochondria and chloroplasts

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What does the mitochondria do?

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metabolizes sugar to produce ATP

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What do chloroplasts do?

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harness light energy to produce ATP and synthesize sugars

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What’s an actin filament (microfilament)?

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long fibers composed of 2 protein chains loosely twined together w/ subunits of globular proteins called actin

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What’s a microtubule?

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largest part of cytoskeletal elements; consist of a ring of 13 protein proto-filaments w/ alpha and beta tubulin subunits

Are positive if away from nuclear center and negative if close

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What’s an intermediate filament?

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most durable element and once formed, are stable and cannot breakdown; have various functions depending on their type

65
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Where are centrioles found?

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in the cells of animal and plant cells; a cylindrical organelle composed mainly of a protein called tubulin

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What are the 4 components to move material through the microtubules?

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1) a vesicle or organelle that needs to be transported
2) a motor protein
3) a connector molecule that connects the vesicle to the motor
4) microtubules that the vesicle will ride on (like a train on a rail)

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What’s myosin?

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a protein that helps w/ muscle contraction

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What’s a primary wall?

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laid down walls when a plant cell is still growing

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What’s the middle lamella?

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what glues cells together between the walls of adjacent cells to a sticky substance

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What’s a secondary wall?

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deposited inside a primary wall of fully expanded cells

71
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What’s an integrin?

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part of the plasma membrane that extends into cytoplasm and attaches microfilaments and intermediate filaments of the cytoskeleton

72
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What’s a glycolipid?

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cell surface markers

73
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What’s a major histocompatibility complex (MHC)?

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genes that help the immune system distinguish “self” cells from “nonself” cells

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What’re Hemidesmosomes?

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focal adhesions that connect cells to the basal lamina or other ECM

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What’re separate junctions?

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found in invertebrates and vertebras and form a barrier that can seal off a sheet of cells

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What’s communicating junctions?

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small areas that allow communication between cells through small

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