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Chapter 3- Cellular Structure and Function Flashcards

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What is cytoplasm?

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All the cellular material inside the plasma membrane.

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What is the plasma membrane? (Also called the cell membrane)

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A thin coat if lipids that surrounds a cell and forms a physical boundary between the cell and its environment.

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What are ribosomes?

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The structures in the cytoplasm where proteins are made.

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What is DNA?

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The nucleic acid found in cells containing the genetic instructions that cells need to make proteins.

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What is the nucleus of the cell?

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A structure in the cytoplasm that is surrounded by the membrane.

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What are prokaryotic cells?

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Cells without a nucleus.

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What are eukaryotic cells?

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Cells that contain a nucleus.

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What are eukaryotes?

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Organisms with eukaryotic cells. They range from fungi to people.

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What is a organelle?

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A structure within the cytoplasm that performs a specific job in the cell.

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What is a viruses?

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Tiny particles that may cause disease.

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What is a phospholipid bilayer?

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When the phospholipids in the plasma membrane are arranged in two layers.

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What are the three functions of cytoplasm?

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  1. Suspending cell organelles.
  2. Pushing against the plasma membrane to help the cell keep it’s shape
  3. Providing a site for many if the biochemical reaction of the cell.
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What is the crosscrossing of the cytoplasm called?

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It’s a structure called the cytoskeleton.

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What is a cell?

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The basic unit of structure and function of living things.

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What is mitochondrion? (Plural mitochondria)

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An organelle that makes energy available to the cell.

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What is ATP?

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An energy-carrying molecule that used inside cells for energy.

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What does ATP stand for?

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Adenosine triphosphate.

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What is endoplasmic reticulum? (ER)

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An organelle that helps make and transport proteins and lipids.

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What is the Golgi apparatus?

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A large organelle that processes proteins and prepares them for use both inside and outside the cell.

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What are vesicles and vacuoles?

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Saclike organelles that store and transplant materials in the cells.

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What is the cell wall?

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A rigid Layer that surrounds the plasma membrane of a plant cell.

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What is central vacuole?

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A substance in most mature plants cells.

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What percentage of volume does the central vacuole take up?

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90%

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What are plastids?

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Organelles in plant cells with many different functions.

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What are chloroplasts?

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Plastids that contain the green pigment chlorophyll.

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What is plasma transport?

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An occurrence when substances cross the plasma membrane without any input of energy from the cell.

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What is diffusion?

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The movement of a substance across a membrane.

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What is osmosis?

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The diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.

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What substance helps with diffusion a in the membrane?

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Transport proteins.

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What is facilitated diffusion?

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Diffusion that has the help of transport proteins.

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What is active transport?

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Something that occurs when energy is needed for a substance to move across the plasma membrane.

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What act of transport can relate to a ball needing to be pushed up hill?

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Active transport.

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What act of transport can relate to a ball rolling down hill?

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Plasma transport.

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What is sodium-potassium pump?

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When sodium ions are pumped out of the cell and potassium are pumped into the cell.

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What is vesicle transport?

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A force that helps very large molecules cross the plasma membrane.

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What is endocytosis?

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The type of vesicle transport that moves a substance into the cell.

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What is exocytosis?

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The type if vesicle transport that moves a substance out of the cell.

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