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Chapter Three: Cell Biology Flashcards

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Cell theory

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  1. All living organism are comprised of one or more cells
  2. The cell is the basic unit of structure, function, and organization in all organisms
  3. All cells come from existing, living cells
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What are the three major parts of a cell?

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Plasma membrane, cytoplasm and nucleus

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What is the role of the plasma membrane?

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Creates a boundary

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What are the six functions of membrane products?

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Transport
Signal transduction
Attachment
Enzymes
Intercellular joining
Cell to cell recognition

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What is the function of integral membrane proteins?

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Transport proteins, enzymes, receptors

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What is the function of peripheral proteins?

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Help the cell move during cellular division and muscular contraction

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The plasma membrane seperates __ from __

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Intracellular fluid from extracellular fluid

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Membrane lipids are 75% __, 5%__, and 20 % ___

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Phospholipids, glycolipids, and cholesterol

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Phosphate heads are polar and hydro__

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hydrophilic

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phospohate heads are __ (polar/nonpolar) and hydrophilic

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Polar

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Fatty acid tails are __ (polar/nonpolar) and hydrophobic

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nonpolar

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Fatty acid tails are nonpolar and hydro__

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hydrophobic

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What function does cholesterol preform in membrane lipids?

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increases the stability of the membrane

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What is the primary function of membrane proteins?

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Allow communication with the environment

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What are the two types of membrane proteins?

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Integral proteins and peripheral proteins

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Integral proteins
– Firmly inserted into __
– Have hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions
* Can interact with __ tails and water
– Function as __ proteins (channels and carriers), enzymes, or receptors

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Membrane
lipid tails
transport proteins

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Peripheral proteins
– Loosely attached to ___ proteins

– Include filaments on intracellular surface for membrane __

– Function as __ ; motor proteins for shape change during cell division and muscle contraction; cell-to-cell connections

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integral
support
enzymes

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Which protein is being described?

– Loosely attached to integral proteins
– Include filaments on intracellular surface for
membrane support
– Function as enzymes; motor proteins for shape change during cell division and muscle contraction; cell-to-cell connections

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Peripheral proteins

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Which protein is being described?

– Firmly inserted into membrane (most are
transmembrane)
– Have hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions
* Can interact with lipid tails and water
– Function as transport proteins (channels and
carriers), enzymes, or receptors

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Integral proteins

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The Glycocalyx

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“Sugar covering” at cell surface
- Lipids and proteins with attached carbohydrates

Allows immune system to recognize “self” and
“non self”

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What are three ways cells are bound?

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Tight junctions
Desmosomes
Gap junctions

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Tight junctions

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Integral proteins fuse together to prevent fluids and molecules from moving between cells

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Desmosomes

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Anchor cells together at plaques that reduce the possibility of tearing

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Plaques in a cell

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Thickenings on plasma membrane

“Molecular velcro”

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Gap junctions
Communication junctions allow small molecules to pass from cell to cell
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Plasma membrane allows a cell to
- maintain a boundary - obtain exactly what it needs from interstitial fluid
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interstitial fluid is comprised of
thousands of miscellaneous substances ie: amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, vitamins, hormones, salts, waste products, etc.
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Plasma membranes are __ permeable
selectively - Some molecules pass through easily; some do not
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What are two ways substances cross a membrane?
- Passive processes - Active processes
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– No cellular energy (ATP) required – Substance moves down its concentration gradient
Passive processes/transport
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– Energy (ATP) required – Occurs only in living cell membranes
Active processes/transport
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What type of transport requires ATP?
Active
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What are the two types of passive transport?
diffusion and filtration
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Molecule will passively diffuse through a membrane if:
- It is lipid soluble - Small enough to pass through membrane channels - Assisted by carrier molecule
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Filtration is usually across __ walls
capillary
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# Which passive processs is this describing? Nonpolar lipid-soluble (hydrophobic) substances diffuse directly through phospholipid bilayer
Simple diffusion
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# Which passive process is this describing? Certain hydrophilic molecules (e.g. glucose, amino acids, and ions) transported passively by – Binding to protein carriers – Moving through water-filled channels - Selectively transport ions or water
Facilitated diffusion
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What is the difference between leakage channels and gated channels?
Leakage channels are always open, gated channel are controlled by chemical or electrical signals
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movement of water through a semi-permeable membrane from from a high concentration of water to a low concentration of water
Osmosis
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Tonicity
Ability of solution to alter cell's water volume
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Isotonic
Solution with same non penetrating solute concentration as cytosol
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Hypertonic
Solution with higher non- penetrating solute concentration than cytosol
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Hypotonic
Solution with lower non- penetrating solute concentration than cytosol
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Is this showing an isotonic, hypertonic, or hypotonic solution?
Isotonic
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Is this showing an isotonic, hypertonic, or hypotonic solution?
Hypertonic
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Is this showing an isotonic, hypertonic, or hypotonic solution?
Hypotonic
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Which energy source does simple diffusion utilize?
Kinetic energy
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Which energy source does faciliatated diffusion utilize?
Kinetic
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Which energy source does osmosis utilize?
Kinetic
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What are the two different types of active processes?
Active transport and vesicular transport
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Both Active transport Vesicular transport require __ to move solutes across a living plasma membrane
ATP
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# Active or passive transport? Moves solutes against concentration gradient and requires carrier proteins
Active
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Primary active transport requires energy directly from ___ ___
ATP hydrolysis
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Secondary active transport requires energy __ from ionic gradients created by primary active transport
indirectly
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# What type of transport is this describing? Energy from hydrolysis of ATP causes shape change in transport protein that "pumps" solutes (ions) across membrane
Primary Active transport
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Sodium - Potassium pump
Carrier (pump) called Na+-K+ ATPase and is involved in primary and secondary active transport of nutrients and ions
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Antiport system
Substances transported in opposite directions
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Symport system
Substances transported in the same direction
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Cotransport
transports multiple substances simultaneously
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Vesicular transport requires
ATP
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Vesicular transport
transportation of large particles, macromolecules, and fluids across membranes in sac called vesicles
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Exocytosis
exit the cell
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Endocytosis
enter the cell
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transcytosis
enter the cell, transport across and out of the cell
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vesicular trafficiking
transporting from one part of the cell to another part of the cell
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Endocytosis and Transcytosis * Involve formation of __ vesicles * Often ___ mediated, therefore very selective
Protein coated receptor
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Pharocytosis
pseudopods engulf solids and bring them into a cell's interior ie. pseudpods snatch up solids and brings them inside the cell cell snatching
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phagosome
visicle formed by phagocystosis
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Pinocytosis
Fluid-phase endocytosis - plasma membrane infolds and brings extracellular fluid inside the cell to "sample" the environment - fuses with the endosome | pino = pino grigio = a lil sippy sample
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Receptor-mediated endocytosis allows __ endocytosis and transcytosis
specific endocytosis and transcytosis
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Provides the main route for endocytosis and transcyotosis
clathrin-coated pits
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Exocytosis is usually activated by __
cell-surface signal or change in membrane voltage
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where are v-SNARES found
vesicle | v for vesicle
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where are t-SNARES found
cell membrane | t for target
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The 4 part process of exocytosis
1. visicle migrates to plasma membranes 2. v-SNARES bind with t-SNARES 3. vesicle and plasma membrane fuse 4. vesicle contents are released to the outside of the cell
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This photo is demonstrating which phenomenon?
exocytosis
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Where is cytoplasm found?
between the plasma membrane and the nucleus
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What three things make up the cytoplasm?
cytosol organelles inclusions
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What is cytosol?
water with solutes | proteins, salts, sugars, etc.
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what are organelles?
metabolic machinery of cell - each have a specific function and are either membranous or nonmembranous
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Membranes allow crucial ____
Compartmentalization
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# Membranous or nonmembranous - Nucleus - Mitochondria - Peroxisomes - Lysosomes - Endoplasmic reticulum - Golgi apparatus
Membranous
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# Membranous or nonmembranous? - Cytoskeleton - Centrioles - Ribosomes
Nonmembranous
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* Largest organelle; genetic library with blueprints for nearly all cellular proteins * Responds to signals; dictates kinds and amounts of proteins synthesized
Nucleus
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The __ is the largest organelle
Nucleus
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- Dark-staining spherical bodies within nucleus - Involved in rRNA synthesis and ribosome subunit assembly
Nucleoli
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The ___ contains the DNA coding for rRNA
Nucleoli
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What provides most of the cell's ATP?
Mitochondria
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Ribosomes
granules containing protein and rRNA - site of prtoein synthesis!
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Two types of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
rough and smooth er
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# What organelle is being described? * Manufactures all secreted proteins * Synthesizes membrane integral proteins and phospholipids
Rough ER
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# What organelle is being described? enzymes (integral proteins) function in – Lipid metabolism; cholesterol and steroid-based hormone synthesis; making lipids of lipoproteins – Absorption, synthesis, and transport of fats – Detoxification of drugs, some pesticides, carcinogenic chemicals – Converting glycogen to free glucose – Storage and release of calcium
Smooth ER
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# What is the function? Golgi apparatus
modifies concentrates and packages proteins and lipids from the rough ER
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# What organelle is being described? Peroxisomes
- detoxify harmful/toxic substances - sacs that contatin oxidases and catalases - neutralize free radicals
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# What organelle is being described? - digestive enzymes - digest bacteria, viruses and toxins - break down and release glycogen
Lysosomes
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What is the overall function of the endomembrane system?
produce, degrade, store, and export biological molecules - includes ER, golgi apparatus, secretory vesicles, lysosomes, nuclear and plasma membranes
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# Label the diagram Transport vesicle Plasma membrane Lysosome Secretory vesicle Smooth ER Rough ER Golgi apparatus Nuclear envelope nucleus
a. nuclear envelope b. nucleus c. smooth ER d. rough ER e. secretory vesicle f. golgi apparatus g. plasma membrane h. transport vesicle i. lysosome
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Cytoskeleton
series of rods throughout the cytosol - proteins link rods to other cell structures
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Microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules are all correlated with __
the cytoskeleton
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Microfilaments function
- give strength - involved in cell motility, change in shape, and endocytosis and exocytosis | actin
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What are microfilaments comprised of?
actins, which are protein subunits
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what are intermediate filaments? what are they comprised of?
tough ropelike protein fibers that attach to desmosomes to resist pulling forces on cells comprised of tetramer fibrils
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Microtubules
comprised of tubulins and determine overall cell shape and distribution of organelles mitochondria, lysosomes, and secretory vesicles attach to the microtubules and are moved throughout the cell by motor proteins
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motor proteins
- powered by atp - proteins that assist in motility | basically cars
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contains genetic material (DNA) and controls the cell's activities by regulating gene expression
Nucleus
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produces energy through cellular respiration
Mitochondria
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synthesizes proteins
Ribosomes
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transports proteins and lipids, and is involved in protein folding and modification
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)
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modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids for transport
Golgi apparatus
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contains digestive enzymes that break down and recycle cellular waste
Lysosomes
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breaks down fatty acids and detoxifies harmful substances
Peroxisomes
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stores water, nutrients, and waste
Vacuoles
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converts sunlight into energy through photosynthesis
Chloroplasts (found in plant cells)
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provides support and structure to the cell, and is involved in cell division and movement.
Cytoskeleton

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