FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Organisation of the body?
Cells, tissues, organs, systems
What is a tissue
Groups of cells which share a specific function
What are the 4 main types of tissues?
muscle, epithelial, connective and nervous
2 functions of epithelial tissues?
- protects underlying tissue
- helps with secretion, selective absorption
List 2 structural features of epithelial tissue?
- Cells closet joined together, almost no intracellular spaces
- cells vary in shape
Location of epithelial tissue?
Lungs, lining blood vessels, kidneys, intestines
List 2 Functions of nervous tissue?
- Allows us to experience stimuli and make response
- communication
2 structural features of nervous tissue?
-Contains 2 catergories of cells neurons and neuroglia
Location of nervous tissue
Peripheral nerves, brain and spinal cord
Function of muscular tissue?
- Cardiac muscle helps pump blood
- allow contraction and support movement
- movement of food or body secretions
Structural features of muscular tissue?
- long and thin
3 types: skeletal, involuntary, cardiac
Location of muscular tissues?
Skeletal- attached to bones eg. Tendons
Cardiac- walls of heart only
Smooth/ involuntary- walls of hollow internal structures eg. Blood vessels, stomach
Function of connective tissue?
- Provides support for the body and holds all body parts together.
- provides transport system within our body ( blood)
- provide support for skeletal framework
Structural features of connective tissue?
- not close together, cells separated by non cellular matrix
- loose dense and elastic tissue
- abundant and widely distributed
Location of connective tissue?
- surround blood vessels
- tendons, ligaments
- oesophagus and other organs
- skeleton
3 different structural differences between animal and plant cells?
- Cell wall in plant cell
- Animals have small temporary vacuoles ( If any)
- plants do not have centrioles
- plants have chloroplast
3 functional differences between animal and plant cells?
- Animals cells store energy in the form of the complex carbohydrate glycogen. Plant cells store energy as starch.
- Animal cells do not have plastids. Plant cells contain plastids such as chloroplasts, which are needed for photosynthesis.
Look at organelles quiz
Look at organelles quiz
What is a prokaryotic cell?
A prokaryote is a unicellular organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus, mitochondria, or any other membrane-bound organelle
What is a eukaryotic cell?
A eukaryote is any organism whose cells have a cell nucleus and other organelles enclosed within membranes.
3 differences between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells ?
- eukaryotic cells have a nucleus
- prokaryotic cells have have no membrane bound organelles
- eukaryotic animals are often multicellular
What is a system?
Groups of organs working together to for a specific function
What is cellular transport?
Movement of materials into and out of the cell across the cell membrane
What are the functions of the cell membrane?
- To provide a physical barrier,
- regulate the passage of materials,
- sensitive ( detects changed in the environment and responds to maintain homeostasis )
- protects and supports cell
Overall Purpose of cell transport
- To achieve homeostasis
- take require products and remove wastes from the cell
What are the 3 membrane models?
Dash model, phospholipid model and fluid mosaic model
What does the dash membrane model show?
- that the membrane has gaps
- substances can move through if small enough but large substances can’t
- membrane is selectively permeable
What does the phospholipid membrane model show?
- phosphate heads which are hydrophilic
- a lipid tails which are hydrophobic
+Meaning water soluble substance substances cannot move through through membrane ( glucose, ions)
+lipid soluable substances can move through ( steroids, alcohols)
What does the fluid mosaic membrane model show?
- Fluid as components moving around, Mosaic because there are many components
- Cholesterol: structural support/ strength
- Glycoprotein/ glycolipids: receptor which detects changes in environment
- Chanel proteins: water and water soluable materials into and out of cell
- carrier proteins: changes shape and moves substances through cell membrane
- phospholipid bilayer: lipid soluble substances only
What is passive transport?
Cell transport which uses no energy and molecules move along the concentration gradient
What is active transport?
Cell transport that uses energy and molecules move against the concentration gradient
Types of passive transport?
Diffusion, osmosis and facilitated diffusion
Types of active transport?
Carrier mediated active transport, endocytosis and exocytosis (vascular transport)
What is diffusion?
The spreading of particles so that they are evenly distributed over space available
What is osmosis?
A type of diffusion. Diffusion of a solvent through a differentially permeable membrane.
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What is facilitated diffusion?
Passive process in which substances move with the concentration gradient. The molecule transported is attached to a binding site on the carrier, the carrier changes shape and the substance is released on the other side.
What is carrier mediated active transport?
Similar to facilitated diffusion, but does not depend on concentration gradient. Cell can take in or pass out substances regardless of their concentrations inside and out of the cell
What is endocytosis?
Taking liquids or solids into the cell via vascular transport. Cell membrane folds around droplet of liquid or particle until completely enclosed
What is exocytosis?
When the contents of a vesicles inside the cell are passed outside the cell. A vesicles formed inside the cell migrates to the cell membrane, fuses with it and contents are then pushed out into extra cellular fluid
2 types of endocytosis?
Pinocytosis and phagocytosis
What is pinocytosis?
Taking liquids into the cell
What is phagocytosis?
When vesicles contain solid particles
What is a concentration gradient
Difference in concentration of a solution, often between inside and outside of a cell
Factors affecting cell transport
- surface area to volume ratio
- surface area
- thickness of membrane/ cell layers
- amount of moisture
- no. Of blood vesicles
- concentration gradient
How does surface area to volume ratio affect cell transport?
As a cell gets bigger it’s surface area to volume ratio decreases = diffusion becomes less efficient. Diffusion is easier in smaller cells
Eg. Single celled organisms (amoeba)
How does surface are affect cell transport?
The bigger the surface area the larger/ greater cell transport will be.
Eg. Alveoli in lungs = faster exchange of O2/ CO2
How does thickness of membrane/ cell layers influence cell transport?
The thinner the membrane the shorter the distance and the faster the cell transport will happen.
Eg. Blood capillaries are one cell thick
How does the amount of moisture affect cell transport?
Too much moisture, all cells surrounded by a cell of moisture = substances can only be transported if they are dissolved
Eg. Alveoli surrounded by moisture thin layers = o2 dissolves into water for transport into blood
How does no. Of blood vesicles affect cell transport?
If cells have a rich supply of blood vesicles ( highly vascular) blood is always transporting materials to and from the area. Concentration is maintained.
How does concentration gradient affect cell transport?
Molecules that move along concentration gradient (o2, co2) vs molecules that move against ( sodium, potassium)
Greater the gradient the faster the rate of movement
What is metabolism?
The total of all chemical processes that take place in the body
What is catabolic reaction?
Destructive metabolic process: complete substances are broken down to simpler ones, releasing energy
Eg. Cellular respiration, chemical digestion
What is an anabolic reaction?
Building metabolic process where simple molecules are built into more complex substances, it require energy to create bonds
Eg. Protein synthesis, DNA replication
What is an enzyme?
Proteins which catalyse specific chemical reactions without themselves being altered
review lock and key model
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What do enzymes do?
Assist metabolic processes ensuring that reactions occur at a sufficient rate. Without enzymes many of the body’s functions would occur too slow for us to survive
Feature of enzymes?
- proteins
- catalyse reactions
- lower energy of reaction required
- not used up
- reaction specific
- denatured by heating
What is the activation energy?
Energy required to start a chemical reaction, usually takes a lot of energy to start reaction, enzymes act by lowering the amount of energy required therefore less energy required = the faster the reaction will occur
Factors affecting enzyme activity ?
- concentration of enzymes and substrate ( higher the concentration = increased rate of reaction)
- temperature
- ph ( each enzyme has its own optimum ph level)
- presence of cofactors (inorganic molecules) and coenzymes ( organic molecules). They change the shape of an enzyme active site to make it complementary to substrate?
Purpose of cellular respiration
Organic molecules are broken down in cells to release energy for cellular activity
Define cellular respiration
Breaking gown of glucose to release energy
Formula for cellular respiration?
Glucose + oxygen -> carbon dioxide+ water+ energy
Formula for forming ATP?
ADP+ Pi = ATP
What is anaerobic respiration?
Respiration that does not require oxygen
What is aerobic respiration?
Respiration requiring oxygen
Where does anaerobic respiration occur?
Glycolysis- in the cytoplasm
Where does aerobic respiration occur?
In the mitochondria
What is produced in glycolysis?
2 ATP and 2 pyruvates which become lactic acid if no oxygen Available
What is produced during aerobic respiration?
Kerbs cycle-‘2 ATP molecules
Electron transport system- products broken to release enough energy to make 34 ATP