Chapter 6 Tour of the Cell Flashcards
Zacharias Janssen
Dutch eye glass maker, “stacked lenses”
Robert Hooke
England, saw dead cells in cork, reminded of monestary
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch, observed/recorded his observations
Rudolph Virchos
Russia/German Physician, cell come from other cells disproving theory of spontaneous generation
Cell theory
All living things are made of cells
Cells are the structural and function units of life
Cells reproduce
Organelles
Little organ in frech
Semi-permeable
Controls what materials move in/out
Nuclear membrane
Same structure/function as cell membrane
Nuclear pores
Opening in nuclear membrane mRNA exits through
Nucleoplasm
Cytoplasm of nucleus, jelly like fluid
Nucleolus
Dense area within the nucleus, site of pre assembly of ribosomes
Chromatin
Relaxed version of DNA
Cytoplasm/Cytosol
Mostly H2O w/dissolved proteins/salts largest organelle
Vesicles
Membrane bound transport pods
Cristae
Folded inner membrane
Matrix
Cytoplasm of mitochondria
Mitochondria DNA
Has its own DNA of maternal origin
Vacuoles
Storage containers/membrane bound spaces
Vacuoles in plants
Large water vacuole to maintain cell’s shape and provide raw material for photosynthesis
Lysosomes
Contains digestive enzymes, merges with food vacuole
Golgi apparatus
Warehouse for storing verifying/modifying packaging and transport
Endoplasmic reticulum
Subway tunnels for modify, packaging and transport materials
Smooth Er
No ribosomes deals, w/lipids and carbs and modification of macromolecules involved in detoxification
Cilia
Hair like projections on the exterior of the cell membrane, difficult to control/coordinate = random spiral movement
Flagella
Whip like proejction on exterior of cell membrane gives unidirectional movement
Examples of unicellular eukaryote with Flagella
Euglena
Microtubules
Made of tubulin, hollow protein structures
Microfilaments
Thread like structures made of actin
Grana
Stack of thylakoids
Thylakoids
Contain photosynthetic pigment
Stroma
Cytoplasm of chloroplast
Magnification
Ratio of objects image size to real size
Resolution
Measure of clarity; minimum distance two points can be separated and still be distinguished as serparate points
Contrast
Different in brightness between the light and dark areas of an image
Cytology
Study of cell structure
Cell fractionation
Disruption of a cell and separation of its parts by centrifugation at successively higher speeds
Protist
Informal term referring to a diverse group of mostly unicellular eukaryotes
Eukaryotic roots
True nucleus
eu: true
karyon: kernel