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Chapter one: The fundamental units of life Flashcards

1
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All living things are made of _______

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Cells (Fundamnetal units of life)

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Cells

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Small membrane enclosed units filled with a concentrated aqueous solution of chemicals & endowed with extraordinary ability to create copies of themselves by growing then dividing into two

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3
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Cells differ in _______ & _______

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Size & shape

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Cells are composed of the same sorts of molecules which particaptes in the same types of _________

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Chemical Reactions

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5
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In all organism genetic information in the form of genes is carried in _______

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DNA molecules

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In every cell, long polymer chains of DNA are made from the same set of four _______

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Nucleotides (Types of monomers)

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The information enclosed in DNA molecules is _________ into RNA molecules

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Transcribed

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The information in the DNA that is transcribed to RNA molecules are then ________ to proteins

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Translated

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Central dogma

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The flow of information from DNA to RNA to Proteins

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Proteins

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Are built from amino acids (Where all organisms use the same set of amino acids to make protiens)

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How many amino acids are in proteins?

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20

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12
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The process of central dogma allows for what to be possible?

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Replication

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13
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The sequence of _______ in a molecule of DNA determines the sequence of _______ in a protein

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Nucleotides, amino acids

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14
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Proteins catalyze the _______ of DNA & the ______ of RNA

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Replication of DNA, Transcription of RNA

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15
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Basics of evolution

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The process by which living speices become gradually modified & adapted to their environment in more ways

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16
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_________ were used to understand cells

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Microscopes

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17
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Cell theory

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All living cells are formed by the growth & divisims of existing cells

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18
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Plasma membrane

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The bounding indicatiing the presence of an enclosing membrane

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19
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Cytoplasm

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Surrounds the nucleus & fills the cell interior

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20
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Floursence microscope

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Type of light microscope that uses methods of illumination & electronic image processing to see flouresnatly labled cell components in better detail

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21
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Ribosome

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A large macromolecular complex in which RNA are translated into proteins

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22
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Electron Microscope

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Revealed details down to nanometer & best reolution

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23
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Organelles

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Separates substructures with specialized functions

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24
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The plasma membrane separates the _____ of the cell from its ______ environment

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Interior, external

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25
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Transmission electron microscope

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Th type of electron microscope used to look out at thin sections of tissue

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26
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Bacteria

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Have simple structures & only contains ribosomes (Also called baterium)

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27
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Eukaryotes

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Organisms who cells have a nuclues

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28
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Prokaryotes

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Organisms whose cells dont have a nucleus

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29
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Prokaryotes are small & contains a ________ surrounding the plasma membrane, which encloses a single compartment containing the cytoplasma & DNA

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Protectiv e Coat (Cell Wall)

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30
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What are the two classes of Prokaryotes?

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  1. Bacteria
  2. Archea
31
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Most prokaryotes lives as ______ organisms

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Single- Celled

32
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Aerboic

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Uses oxygen to oxidize food molecules

33
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Anaerobic

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Killed by the slightest exposure to oxygen

34
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Mitochondria

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Organelle that generate the energy in Eukaryotic Cells

35
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Photosynthesis

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Uses Energy from sunlight to produce organic molecules from CO2

36
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Chloroplasts

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Organelles in the plant cell that performs photosynthesis

37
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Eukaryotic Cells

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Larger & more complex where some are single - celled, & others are multicellular

38
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Nucleus

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Is the most prominent organelle in the Eukaryotic Cell

39
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The nucleus is enclosed within two concentric membranes that form the _______, which contains molecules of DNA

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Nuclear Envelope

40
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DNA

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Long polymers that encode the gentic information of the organism

41
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What is this organelle?

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Mitochondria

42
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What is this organelle?

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Rough Endoplasmic Retriculum

43
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What is this organelle?

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Smooth Endoplasmic Retriculum

44
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What is this organelle?

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Golgi Apparatus

45
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What is this organelle?

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Membrane Enclosed Vesicle

46
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What is this organelle?

47
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What are the small circular organelle?

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Transport Vesicle

48
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What are the small organelles with the lines in them?

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Peroxisome

49
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Plants, Fungi, Animals have what type of cells?

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Muticelluar Eukaryotic Cells

50
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All Eukaryotic cell contains what?

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A Mitochondria

51
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Mitochondria are _______ of the chemical energy for the cell

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Generators

52
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Mitochondria hardness the energy from the oxidation of food molecules like sugar to produce what?

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Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

53
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Cell Respiration

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The process of the mitochondria consuming oxygen & releasing CO2

54
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Mitochondria contains its own _____ & reproduce by _______

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DNA , Dividing

55
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Chloroplast

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Are large green organelles that are found in the cells of plants & algae but not in animal or fungi

56
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Chlorophyll

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Are the internal stacks of membranes that contains a green pigement that is inside the chloroplast

57
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Chloroplast contains their own ______ & reproduce by _________

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DNA & Dividing into two

58
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Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

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Is an irregular maze of interconnnected spaces enclosed by a membrane

59
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Golgi Apparatus

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Flattened membrane enclosed sacs that modifies & packages molecules made in ER that are destined to be secreted from the cell or transported to another cell

60
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Lysosomes

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Small irregular shaped organelles in which intracellular digestion occurs releasing nutrients form ingested food particles into the cytosol

61
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Peroxisomes

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Small membrane enclosed vesicles that provid ea sequested environoment for a variety of reactions in which hydrogen peroxide is used to inactivate toxic molecules

62
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Transport vesicles

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Caryy materials between one membrane -enclosed organelle & another

63
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Endocytosis

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Process where portions of the plasma membrane tuck inward & pinch off to form vesicles that carry materials captured from outside the cell into the cell

64
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Exocytosis

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Vesicles from the inside the cell fuse with the plasma membrane & release their contents into the external medium

65
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The cytosol is part of what?

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Part of the cytoplasm

66
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Cytoskelton

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The system of protein filaments, which is composed of three major filaments

67
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What are the three major filaments in the Cytoskelton?

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  1. Actin Filaments
  2. Microtubes
  3. Intermediate Filaments
68
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Actin Filaments

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The thinnest filaments & are abundant in all eukaryotic cells but occur in large number inside muscle cells where they serve as a central par tof the muscle contraction

69
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Microtubes

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The thickest filaments & they have the form of mini hollow tubes that become reorganized into an array that helps pull the duplicated chromosomes apart & distrubute them equally to the two daughter cells

70
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Intermediate Filaments

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Thickness is between Actine filaments & microtubes, they serve to strengthen most animal cells

71
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The cytoskelton is a dynamic jungle of _______ that are continually being strung together & taken apart

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Protien Ropes

72
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Motor proteins

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Use the energy stored in molecules of ATP to ttrundle along the tracks & cables carrying organelles & proteins throughout the cytoplasm

73
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Bonds are broken through what process?

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Hydrolysis

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