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The most common gradients are the result of concentration differences, therefore called

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Concentration gradients

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Molecules move naturally with gradients from areas of high to low concentration, and it requires no energy

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Passive transport

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Molecules can also be moved against gradients from areas of low to high concentration, it requires energy

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Active transport

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How do some molecules move passively into cells? Moves with concentration gradient and it’s small enough to pass through the bilayer molecules. Example: food coloring in water

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Simple diffusion

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Specific type of diffusion that involves water is called

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Osmosis

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Ability of a surrounding solution to cause a cell to gain or lose water

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Tonicity

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Equal movement of water in and out of cells

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Isotonic

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Water goes into the cell and expands.

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Hypotonic

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Water goes out of the cell and shrinks

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Hypertonic

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A plant cell undergoes

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Plasmolysis

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Changes in cell shape can alter its ability to function, cells may have certain mechanisms in place in an attempt to maintain a proper water balance, also known as

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Osmoregulation

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Microorganisms pump water out to prevent lysis by osmotic water diffusion into the cell

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Contractile vacuoles

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Water content in the large central vacuole of plants help provide ___ on the cell walls

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Turgor pressure

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Loss of this pressure can cause wilting where the cells can become

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Flaccid

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The membrane is considered differentially or selectively permeable because

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Membrane proteins can allow passage of certain select substances through the bilayer

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Facilitated diffusion

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Passive transport aided by protein transporters

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17
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Proteins act as pumps to transport materials as an example of

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Sodium-potassium pump

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In some cases, active transport of one substance can be used to establish a
concentration gradient in order to power the transport of a second substance

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Cotransport

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One carrier builds a high concentration of a substance on one side of the membrane, the substance then moves back via facilitated diffusion through a ___ bringing along another substance

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Symporter

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If a substance is moved in the opposite direction of its partner, the carrier is called an

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Antiporter

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A region of the plasma membrane surrounds the material and pinches it off into a vesicle inside the cell

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Endocytosis

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Large particles are surrounded and engulfed is called

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Phagocytosis

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The extracellular fluid is surrounded and internalized is called

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Pinocytosis

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Materials first bind to outer receptors is called

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Receptor-mediated

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The particular biomolecule a receptor protein binds to is called

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Ligand

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The reverse process, secreted materials are released from the cell in this way is called

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Exocytosis

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A combination of endo and exocytosis

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Transcytosis

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Microtubules

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The largest, composed of protein tubulin

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Microtubule organizing center

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Plant cells can have many, but fungi and animals have one
- In animals it is known as the centrosome

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Kinesin

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Protein motor protein

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Cilia

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Like haired structures

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Primary cilium

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Involved in signal reception

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Flagella

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Same as cilia but longer.

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Axoneme

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9+2 core structure of microtubules

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Basal body

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9+0 arrangement

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Dynein

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Links the multiple microtubule components of cilia together

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Microfilaments

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Thinnest of the cytoskeletal components, they are composed of thin rods called actin

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Thin rods called

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Actin

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Cytoplasmic streaming

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Where cytosol is made to circulate throughout the cell

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Intermediary filaments

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Are sized in between the other two filaments.

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Cellulose synthase

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The cellulose is synthesized by enzymes in the plasma membrane

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Hemicellulose

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Another polymer of glucose

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Pectin

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A gel that fills the space between cellulose fibers

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Plant cells

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Possess a single primary cell wall

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The space in between primary cell walls of adjacent cells is called the

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Middle lamella

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Disrupt hydrogen bonds between celluloses so they can slide past each other and the wall can expand is called

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Expansins

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Cells that are no longer expanding can deposit a

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Secondary cell wall

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Lignin

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Waterproofs the secondary wall, is hydrophobic

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Extracellular Matrix

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Animal cells have ECM and are composed of collagen

50
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The collagen fibers are also bound to proteins in the ECM called

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Fibronectins

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The fibronectin in turn, is connected to the cell surface by transmembrane proteins called

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Integrins

52
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Protein strands that extend into and out of the cell
- the internal portion anchors to intermediate filaments

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Desmosomes

53
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Proteins called _________ extend outward and interact with each other

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Cadherins, holds adjacent cells together like Velcro.

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Tight junctions

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Proteins that fuse together between the cell membrane, prevents leakage

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Gap junctions

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Channels that connect insides of cells, similar to air ducts

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Plasmodesmata

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Continuation of plasma membrane in adjacent cells, the plasma membrane is shared between cells

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How can the cell membrane transmit information from outside the cell to the
inside?

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Signal transduction

58
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Proteins embedded in the membrane called

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Signal Receptors

59
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They are called _ proteins because they bind GTP

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G

60
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The product produced as a result of this enzyme being turned on acts as a

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Secondary Messenger

61
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Activation of an enzyme called

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Adenyly cyclase

62
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These messengers often activate

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Protein kinases

63
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Cells are the smallest unit of life

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True!

64
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the Cell Theory states three principles about cells, what are they?

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a) all living things are made up of cells
b) a cell is the smallest unit of living things
c) all cells arise from pre-existing cells

65
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Cells are so small because

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The have to get materials through the surfaces

66
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All cells share three main features, what are they?

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a) they are surrounded by a plasma membrane (discussed previously)
b) they contain cytoplasm, the aqueous environment inside a cell
- the cytoplasm contains organelles; structures that can perform
specific cellular tasks
- most are membrane-bound, but not all
- the jelly-like fluid alone is referred to as cytosol
c) they contain DNA in the form of chromosomes

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Prokaryotic the DNA is called ___ and have ___

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Nucleoid, and ribosomes

68
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Bacterial cell walls are made up of _____

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Peptidoglycan

69
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Eukaryotic cells are composed of ____ or ____

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Cellulose, or chitin

70
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Nucleus

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the control center

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Importins

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Protein that carries in the materials in the cell

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Exportins

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Protein that takes the materials out of the cell

73
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What is the Rough ER?

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Presence of bound ribosomes gives the surface a textured appearance

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What is the Smooth ER?

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Site of membrane lipid synthesis, also gives presence have bound ribosomes gives the surface a smooth appearance.

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Transport vesicle (like a bubble made up of membrane)

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90% of the time will go to the Golgi

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Golgi Apparatus

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A series of flattened membrane sacs stacked together

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Cisternae

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The walls of the Golgi

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CIsface

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The receiving side of the Golgi

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Transface

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The transferring side where it pinches off the protein out and into a cell

80
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Golgi will do an attachment of a _____ ____ and it acts like a zip code.

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Carbohydrate tags

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SRP

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Signal Recognition Particle

82
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Are bound ribosomes and free bound ribosomes the same?

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Yes, the only difference is the location.

83
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The ER is?

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An interconnected network of membrane based tunnels.

84
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Lysosomes

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Breaks down the larger biomolecules

85
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Peroxisomes

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Protective Role against R.O.S (reactive oxygen species)

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Glyoxysomes

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Breaks down photosynthesis byproducts.

87
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Vacuoles

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Storage compartments, in plant cells there only one large vacuole and in animal cells there are multiple ones involving storage.

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Plant cells have one big vacuole, it maintains what?

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Turgor pressure

89
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Mitochondria

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Site of aerobic (requires oxygen gas) cellular respiration

90
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What does the Mitochondria have?

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It’s own DNA + ribosomes.

91
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The folds, inner wall, and outer wall of the Mitochondria is called what?

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Cristae, folds, and inter-membrane compartment

92
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Plastids

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Site of the photosynthesis

93
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The membrane, inner space, and the inside stuff of the Plastid is what?

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Thylakoid membrane, Stoma, and Lumen.

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Amyloplast

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Stores starch

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Elaioplast

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Stores oil

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Chromoplasts

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Producing pigment, food and or storing pigment and food.

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