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Chp 3 Flashcards

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Plasma membrane?

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Surrounds cell, defines boundaries

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Intracelluar fluid?

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Water in the cell.

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Extracellular fluid?

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Water outside the cell.

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Membrane proteins?

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Inside the protein.

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Peripheral protein?

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Outside the cell to anchor the cell.

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Functions of membrane proteins?

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Receptor
Enzyme
Channel
Gated channel
Cell-identity marker
Cell adhesion molecule
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A receptor?

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Binds to chemical messengers such as hormones.

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A enzyme?

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Breaks down a chemical messenger and terminates its effect.

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A channel?

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Protein that is constantly open and allows solutes to pass in and out cell.

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Gated channels?

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Opens and closes to allow solute through only at certain times.

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Cell identity marker?

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Distinguish the body’s own cells from foreign cells.

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Cell adhesion molecule?

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A cell adhesion that binds one cell to another.

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13
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A microvilli?

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Best developed in cells specialized in absorption.

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A cilia?

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Hairlike processes.

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Nonmotile cilia?

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Found on sensory nose of cell.

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Motile cilia?

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Respitory tract, uterine tubes, ventricles of brain, duct of testes.

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Flagella is?

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Tail of a sperm.

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Osmosis is?

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Net flow of water through a selectively permeable membrane.

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Osmotic pressure?

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Hydrostatic pressure required to stop osmosis.

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Tonicity?

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Is the ability of a solution to affect the fluid volume and pressure in a cell.

21
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Normal saline?

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0.9% NaCl

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Hypertonic solution?

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Causes cell to absorb water and swell.

23
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Hypertonic?

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Causes the cell to shrivel.

24
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Three kinds of carriers

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Uniport
Symport
Antiport

25
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Internal structures are?

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Of a cell, carry out specialized metabolic tasks.

26
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The nucleus?

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Largest organelle.

27
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Nucleoplasm is?

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Material in nucleus.

28
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Humans have how many chromosomes?

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46 and 23 pairs.

29
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Ribosomes are?

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Create protein

30
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Rough endoplasmic reticulum?

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Creates protein.

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Smooth endoplasmic?

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Doesn’t make protein because it lacks ribosomes.

32
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Autophagy?

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Digestion of cells.

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Autolysis?

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Cell suicide, digestion of a surplus cell by itself.

34
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Mitochondria makes?

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ATP. Powerhouse of the cell.

35
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Golgi complex?

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Sends the protein through vesicles.

36
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Basic components of a cell

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Plasma membrane
Cytoplasm 
Phospholipids 
Membrane protein
Peripheral protein

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