Exam 1 Flashcards
True or False: The contractile vacuole of the paramecium is possibly an evolutionary precursor of the kidney.
True
True or False: A cancer cell will be anchorage-dependent for growth and immortal.
False
Comparing a single-celled eukaryotic organism with a multicellular organism such as yourself identify the major difference
DIVISION OF LABOR
True or False: A cell that is anchorage-dependent for growth will also exhibit contact inhibition.
True
Write a few sentences that explain what limits an individual cell from becoming more complex.
Limited number of biomolecular machines
Compared to bacteria which of the cell types below are not responsible for finding food.
LYMPHOCYTE, MACROPHAGE, FIBROBLAST
In Cell Biology, what can limit the progress of science?
Technology
The paramecium discussed in class contained an organelle called the contractile vacuole. This is the presumed precursor of the:
KIDNEY
True or False: A normal cell is anchorage-dependent for growth and mortal.
True
What limits the paramecium from acquiring more complex functions?
Limited number of biomolecular machines
A single celled eukaryotic organism:
Has a limited number of biomolecular machines; must find food, shelter, a mate, and reproduce, escape from predators
True or False: In your own multicellular body, different cells in the body have a division of labor between them
True
True or False: In your own multicellular body, cells with different functions have different DNA.
False
A cell that is itself an organism must have a minimum of four needs.
Find food, shelter, a mate, and the need to reproduce
True or False: The paramecium swims by way of using a flagella.
False
True or False: When cancer cells are crowded by surrounding cells, the cancer cells become spherical and they can still go through cell division.
True
True or False: In an extant prokaryotic cell, the outer boundary of life is the capsule.
False
True or False: Fluorescence microscopy is a form of light microscopy.
True
True or False: Loss of the cell wall was required for the endomembrane system theory.
True
Why is it important to know the limitations of technology?
You can’t advance without knowing what the limitations are
After a cell is pancake shaped in a cell culture dish, the order of events that occurs as a cell walks is:
Filapodia, liamellipodia, cell muscle, retraction fiber
True or False: The ancient earth did not contain much oxygen
True
The association of ribosomes with _ invaginations would support the _ theory
Membrane, endomembrane
True or False: Ribosomes bound to some of the membrane invaginations in the endomembrane theory.
True
True or False: It is presumed that the peroxisomes evolved in these primitive, proto-eukaryotes to remove oxygen, which was toxic to the primitive cells.
True
True or False: The presumed first step in the transition of the primitive, proto-prokaryotic cell into the primitive, proto-eukaryotic cell was the loss of the cell wall.
True
Motility improved the fitness of these early cells because:
It allowed them to move away from predators and towards food
True or False: Loss of the cell wall is required for the endosymbiotic theory.
True
A normal is _ and _ for growth.
Mortal, anchorage-dependent
What limits how big a cell can be.
The surface area to volume ration
True or False: The cytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
True
True or False: DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular.
True
True or False: The cytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
True
True or False: DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular.
True
List one limitation of the cell culture technique.
Not all cells can grow in a culture
Actin filaments are present in the cell’s _ and the microtubules are present in the cell’s _
Cell Cortex; Cell Interior
True or False: Heterochromatin does not exist in interphase nuclei
False
True or False: The diameter of intermediate filament is 25 nm
False