Exam 2 Flashcards
Do cells require a microscope to see them?
Nearly all cells do
Are cells extremely diverse?
Yes
What is diversity?
- Shape
- Size
- Function
Give an example of the diversity of cells.
•sperm, egg cell
Our bodies are composed of how many cell types?
They are composed of several hundred cell types.
Give examples of different cell types.
- Nerve cells
- Muscle cells
- Gland cells
- Bone cells
What do nerve cells do?
Conduct impulses
What do muscle cells do?
Contract
What do gland cells do?
Secrete hormones
What do bone cells do?
Support
What are all organisms composed of?
Cells
What is needed to see most cells?
A microscope
What are the microscopes used to see cells?
- Light microscope
- Transmission electron microscope
- Scanning electron microscope
What is a light microscope?
Reveals inside of cells details
What is a transmission electron microscope?
Reveal inside of cells in greater details
What is a scanning electron microscope?
Reveals surface features in greater details
Why must cells remain small?
cells must remain small in order to have an adequate surface area per cell volume
What are the two main types of cells?
- Prokaryotes and
2. Eukaryotes
What do all cells have?
- Plasma membrane
- Cytoplasm
- Genetic material
How is a nucleus different in a Eukaryotic cell than a Prokaryotic cell?
Because the nucleus is bounded by a double-membrane
What type of cell is a bacteria cell?
A bacteria cell is a prokaryote
What do prokaryotic cells possess?
- plasma membrane
- cell wall
- capsule
- DNA in nucleoid zone
- Ribosomes
6, Apendages
List the parts of an appendage of a cell.
- Fimbriae
- conjugation pilus
- flagellum
What does a fimbriae do?
attachment
what does a conjugation pilus do?
asexual reproduction
What does a flagellum do?
movement
What does the plasma membrane mark?
It marks the boundary between the outside and inside of a cell
What is the plasma membrane in prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells?
The plasma membrane is a phospholipid bilayer
What does a phospholipid bilayer do?
It regulates the passage of molecules and ions into and out of the cell
Can the phospholipid bilayer be likened to a sandwich?
yes
What does the fluid-mosaic model of the membrane structure show?
That the membrane proteins form a mosaic (varying) pattern
What is mosaic?
varying
Why fluid?
substances always moving in and out
Why mosaic?
- Different displays of patterns of the structural material
2. many different structural materials
How many types of embedded proteins are there?
6-types
List the 6 types of proteins.
- Channel proteins
- Transport proteins
- cell recognition proteins
- receptor proteins
- Enzymatic proteins
- Junction proteins
What are Channel proteins?
- Allows for selective movement
2. determines what enters and leaves the cell
What are transport proteins?
convey Na+ and K+ across nerve cell membrane
What is an ion?
If an element has a charge
What is Na+ called?
sodium ion
What are cell recognition proteins?
- are glycoproteins
- they distinguish between human cells and other organisms
- they protect from pathogenic invasion
What are receptor proteins?
- the hormone insulin binds to a receptor protein in liver cells
- and cause these cells to store glucose
What are enzymatic proteins?
- metabolic reactions
- degradative reactions
- synthetic reactions
What is an enzyme?
speed up metabolic reactions
What are junction proteins?
- assist cell-to-cell adhesion and communication
2. prevents separation and tearing of cells
Are Eukaryotic cells larger than Prokaryotic cells?
yes
What are organelles?
double membrane-bound structure in plant and animal cells
List some organelle’s that are in cells.
- nucleus
- vesicles
- mitochondrion
- Rough endoplasmic reticulum-RER
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum-SER
- Lysosome
- Golgi apparatus
What does RER stand for?
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
What does SER stand for?
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
What is a nucleus?
houses chromatin, which contains DNA-the genetic material
What is a nucleolus?
- is contained within the nucleus
2. and produces ribosomes
What are ribosomes?
- In the cytoplasm
2. Synthesizes proteins
What organelles makes up the endomembrane system?
- RER
2. SER
What is RER?
Protein synthesis
What is SER?
- synthesizes lipids
2. and form transport vesicles
What is the Golgi apparatus?
- receives transport vesicles
- and modifies, sorts, and repackages protein into transport vesicles that fuse with the plasma membrane as secretion occurs
What are lysosomes?
- produced by Golgi Apparatus;
2. Contain enzymes for intracellular digestion
What are vacuoles?
larger membranous sacs specialized in-storage, contraction, digestion, etc.
What are vesicles?
smaller membranous sacs- transportation
What are Chloroplasts?
- Capture sunlight energy
- Carry out photosynthesis
- produces carbohydrates
What organism does photosynthesis occur in?
Only occurs in plants
What are carbohydrates?
energy
What is a mitochondrion?
- breaks down carbohydrates,
2. produces ATP (adenosinetriphosphate) during cellular respiration
What is ATP?
adenosinetriphosphate
How do consumers produce energy?
consumers/animals produce energy during cellular respiration
What is a cytoskeleton?
- maintains cell shape
2. and allows the cell and organelles to move
What are the structural components?
- microtubules,
- intermediate filaments
- actin filaments
What are motor proteins?
- allows cellular movement to occur
2. and moves vesicles and organelles within the cell
give an example of motor proteins.
myosin (interacts with actin)
What are centrioles?
are short cylinders of microtubules
Where are centrioles in animals and protists?
2 centrioles lie outside nucleus
Do plant cells have centrioles?
Plant cells lack centrioles
What is the function of centrioles+ centrosomes?
- produce spindle fibers
2. cell division
what are cilia and flagella?
hair-like projections: locomotion
What is the cylindrical construction of cilia and flagella?
- cylindrical construction:
- 9+2 pattern of microtubules
What do plant cells posess?
- a permeable cell wall,
2. and cellulose as its main component
What do some plants have?
a secondary (2*) cell wall
Lignin + cellulose = ?
rigidity
What is the plasmodesmata?
- membrane-lined channels in cell wall;
2. materials movement through an opening from cell to cell
What is an extracellular matrix?
- Proteins and polysaccharides;
2. support and communication between cells
What are adhesion junctions and tight junctions?
hold cells together
what are gap junctions?
allow passage of small molecules between cells
How do plant cells get energy?
through photosynthesis
What does mitochrondrial =?
animal (cellular respiration)
what does photosynthesis use?
chloroplasts
What does photosynthesis transform solar energy into?
the chemical energy of a carbohydrate
What are some photosynthetic organisms?
- plants
- algae
- cyanobacteria
What do photosynthetic organisms produce?
enormous amounts of carbohydrates
What do photosynthetic organisms have?
chloroplasts