Chapter 1 Flashcards

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State the three rules of cell theory

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1 all living things are composed of one or more cells and products of all the cells.
2 the cell is the smallest unit that has properties of life
3 cells only arise from pre-exciting cells.

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Unicellular

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Living organism with one cell that carries out all jobs.

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3
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Multicellular

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Cells become specialised to create tissues and organs that make up an organism.

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4
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Magnification

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How large an object appears

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Resolution

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The ability to see two points that are close together as two separate points.

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size

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Size = diameter of field of view/ number of objects across diameter.

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Tissue

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Many specialised cells that work together to produce an outcome.
Lung tissue, liver, gastric.

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Organ

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Made up of tissue to do a function.

Stomach, heart, intestines.

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Organ system

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Depends on organs that it contain

Respiratory, digestive

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10
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Prokaryotes

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Bacteria
Unicellular
Lack membrane bound organelles

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Eukaryotes

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Animal cells, plant cells, fungi, protists

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Nucleus

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Control centre of the cell
Contains DNA (chromosomes)
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13
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Smooth endoplasmic reticulum

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Communicating network
Makes lipids
Internal transport of substances

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14
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Rough endoplasmic reticulum

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Communication of proteins

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15
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Ribosome

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Contains ribonucleic acid.

Protein synthesis

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16
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Golgi Apperatis

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Collects vesicles, packages and rearranges proteins.

Vesicles leave via membrane, they are membrane bound.

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Lysosomes

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Brake down debre or foreign substances

Contain vesicles.

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Cytoplasm

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Liquid substances that surround the organelles

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Cytosol

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Liquid containing, ions, organelle, water, salts, enzymes, food molecules.

20
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Cytoplasmic streaming

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The movement of organelles to ensure all get the nutrients they need and to assist photosynthesis.

21
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Plasma Membrane

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Phospholipid bio layer

Semi permeable

22
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Mitochondria

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Cellular respiration

Glucose and oxygen = carbon dioxide and water and heat

23
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Chloroplast

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Photosynthesis

Starch is stored

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Vacuoles

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Liquid filled
Controls pressure
Stores sugar, minerals, proteins and sugar.

25
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Cell wall

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Protects
Provides structure
Fully permeable

26
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Cell theory

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Cells are the basic units of life

27
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Phospholipid

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Head hydrophilic yes water

Tail hydrophobic no water

28
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Endocytosis

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Bring substances in, in a membrane bound vesicles.

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Ectocytosis

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Taking things out with a membrane bound vesicle

30
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Facilitated diffusion

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No energy but needs help from channel proteins.

31
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Hypotonic solutions

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Dilute

Cell will gain water

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Hypertonic solution

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Concentrated

Cell will lose water

33
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Isotonic solution

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Equal Librium with both substances

34
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Pinocytosis

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Uptake of liquid in cells

Active transport

35
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Phagocytosis

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Uptake of solid particles

Active transport