Deck 5

Question 0

Enzymes that are used to detoxify a number of harmful substances including alcohol. However, their most important functions is to “disarm” dangerous free radicals

Answer 0

Peroxisomes

Question 1

“Breakdown bodies”; membranous “bags” containing powerful digestive enzymes

Answer 1

Lysosomes

Question 2

Highly reactive chemicals with unpaired electrons that can scramble the structure of proteins and nucleic acids

Answer 2

Free radicals

Question 3

What enzyme converts excess hydrogen peroxide to water

Answer 3

Catalase

Question 4

An elaborate network of protein structures extending throughout the cytoplasm, and acts as a cells “bones and muscles”

Answer 4

Cytoskeleton

Question 5

Strong, stable ropelike filaments that help form desmosomes

Answer 5

Intermediate filaments

Question 6

Filaments most involved in cell motility and in producing changes in cell shape

Answer 6

Microfilaments

Question 7

The tubelike structures that determine the overall shape of a cell and the distribution of organelles

Answer 7

Microtubules

Question 8

Rod-shaped bodies that lie at right angles to each other and lie close to the nucleus

Answer 8

Centrioles

Question 9

During cell division, the centrioles direct the formation of the

Answer 9

Mitotic spindle