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What microscope is used to see cells and smaller objects?

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Light microscope

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What forms a light microscope?

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a lens and light

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Which microscope is used for studying organelles?

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Transmission electron microscope

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Which microscope is used for studying surface structure?

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Scanning electron microscope

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What is a macromolecule?

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A polymer of smaller molecules

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What are the 4 kinds of macromolecules?

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Polysaccharides, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids (lipids are not real macromolecules)

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How do molecules grow?

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Dehydration reactions

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How do you break down molecules?

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Hydrolysis

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What are polysaccharides and disaccharides held by?

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Glycosidic linkage bonds

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What are polysaccharides?

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Polymers built of many monosaccharides, structural and storage

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What are structural polysaccharides used for?

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To build strong materials ex: exoskeleton

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What are storage polysaccharides used for?

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Store sugar in the form of storage polysaccharides (plants- starch, humans-glycogen)

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what are lipids?

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Diverse group of hydrophobic molecules: Consist of phospholipids, steroids, fats

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What are fatty acids formed of?

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Hydrocarbon chain, carbon at one end is part of carboxyl group

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What is a fat?

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constructed from two smaller molecules: fatty acid and glycerol

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triacyglycerol?

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3 fatty acids, 3 glycerol molecules

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What is a phospholipid?

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two fatty acids attached to glycerol, one hydroxyl group attached to phosphate

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What is a saturated phospholipid?

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no double bonds, completely surrounded by Hydrogen (solid)

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What is an unsaturated phospholipid?

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Double bond, cinched, hydrogen cannot completely surround it (liquid)

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What is a phospholipid bilayer?

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a hydrophilic double membrane (head is hydrophilic, tail is hydrophobic)

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Explain how DNA is transcribed

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DNA (transcription) - RNA (translated)- amino acid chain (folding) - protein

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What are some uses for proteins?

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Enzymes, antibodies, storage proteins, etc..

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What are amino acids composed of?

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Organic molecules with an amino group and a carboxyl group, have side chains of amino acids, join to create polypeptides

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24
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Which bonds hold proteins together?

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Peptide bonds

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25
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How many amino acids are there?

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There are 20 different kinds, each chain varies in order which can produce many many different proteins

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What are the 4 levels of protein structure?

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  1. Primary
  2. secondary
  3. Tertiary
  4. Quaternary
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27
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What occurs in the 1st phase of protein structure?

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Amino acids bond to form polypeptides

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What happens in the 2nd phase of protein structure?

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Secondary: hydrogen bonds stabilize regions (Alpha helix and beta pleated sheet)

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What happens in the 3rd phase of protein structure?

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Tertiary: Protein structure forms

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30
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What are nucleic acids?

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Acids involved in the production and synthesis of DNA and cell division

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31
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What forms nucleic acids?

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Ribose/deoxyribose, phosphate, sugar (backbone)

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32
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Describe DNA

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Double helix strand, hydrogen bonds formed between nitrogenous bases, 5’ to 3’

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33
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Describe RNA

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Single strand, bonds with itself,

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34
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What is a eukaryotic cell?

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Contains internal membranes that compartmentalize their functions, DNA is in nucleus

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What is a prokaryotic cell?

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Lacks a true nucleus, much simpler internal structure, dan concentrated in nucleoid

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What is the cytoplasm?

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The region between the nucleus and the plasma membrane

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37
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What is the plasma membrane/membrane of organelles?

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Consists of a phospholipid bilayer, with proteins embedded/bobbing in it, carbs attached

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38
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What does it mean to be amphipathic?

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Has water loving/hating regions ie: phospholipid

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39
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Where does transcription occur?

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the nucleus

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40
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Where does translation occur?

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The cytoplasm

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41
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What is the nuclear envelope?

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Encloses the nucleus, composed of two membranes, one porous layer that allows proteins and RNA through

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42
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What is the nucleolus?

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Where ribosomal RNA is synthesized

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43
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What are ribosomes?

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Complexes made of ribosomal RNA and proteins: carry out protein synthesis

**remember that to synthesize protein uses mrna, rrna, and trna

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What are the two types of ribosomes?

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Free ribosomes and bound ribosomes *structurally identical

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45
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What are free ribosomes?

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Suspended in cytosol, creates proteins for the cell

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46
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What are bound ribosomes?

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Attached to the outside of endoplasmic reticulum and nuclear envelope, creates proteins for membrane and out of the cell

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47
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What is the endosymbiont theory?

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Early prokaryotic cells that were absorbed by the cell ex: mitochondria: oxygen using non photosynthetic prokaryotic cell absorbed

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What is the mitochondria?

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Sites of cellular respiration, turns sugar into energy

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49
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What are chloroplasts?

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Found in plants, photosynthesize, contain plastids and chloroplasts, contain a 3rd membrane: thylakoid membrane

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50
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What is a peroxisome?

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Contains enzymes that produce H2O2
- break down harmful things, removes Hydrogen, and adds to oxygen

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51
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What is the endomembrane system?

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Regulates protein traffic and performs metabolic functions

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52
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What forms the endomembrane system?

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Nuclear envelope
The endoplasmic reticulum (rough/smooth)
The golgi apparatus
Lysosomes
Vesicles and vacuoles
Plasma membrane

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53
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What is the endoplasmic reticulum?

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Network of membranous tubules and sacs called cisternae

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54
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What are the two kinds of ER?

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Smooth and rough

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55
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What does the smooth ER do?

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outer surface lacks ribosomes, functions in diverse metabolic processes

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56
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What does the rough ER do?

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-Studded with ribosomes
- makes proteins to be secreted, and membrane proteins

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How do proteins leave the ER?

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Through transport vesicles from the rough er to the cis face of the Golgi apparatus

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What is the Golgi apparatus?

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The ‘shipping and receiving centre’, consists of flattened membranous sacs called cisternae, not physically connected, different enzymes that do different modifications

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59
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How do proteins leave the Golgi?

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Through transport vesicles, molecular identification tags that lead it to the correct part of the membrane

60
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What are lysosomes?

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Membranous sacs of hydrolytic enzymes that eukaryotic cells use to digest macromolecules

61
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What is phagocytosis?

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-Food vacuole surrounds food and smaller organisms, lysosome fuse to this vacuole whose enzymes digest this food

62
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What is autophagy?

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Damaged organelles become surrounded by a double membrane which fuses with lysosome to be digested

63
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What are vacuoles?

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large vesicles derived from the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus

64
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What is the cytoskeleton?

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A network of fibres that organizes structures and activity in the cell
- provides mechanical support/maintains its shape
Dynamic: Can change the shape of the cell

64
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What is the contractile vacuole?

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Pumps excess water out of the cell to maintain a suitable concentration

65
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What is a microtubule?

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The thickest of the 3, tube shaped, made from dimers (alpha and beta tubulin)
- constructed from a globular protein called tubulin
- the beta end is the ‘positive end’, grows and shrinks faster
- Shapes and support the cell, serves as tracks along which organelles can move (if they have motor proteins)

66
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Where do microtubules grow from?

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The centrosome

66
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What are some common things that microtubules can form?

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Cilia: power and recovery strokes
Flagellum: undulating motions like the tail of a fish

66
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What motor protein do microtubules use to move?

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Kinesins: they move vesicles and organelles along microtubules

66
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Which motor protein do microfilaments use?

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Myosin: sliding of myosin along acting stimulates muscle contraction

66
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What are the 3 main types of cell junctions?

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tight junctions, desmosomes, Gap junctions

66
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What is ATP?

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Adenosine triphosphate, used for cellular work

66
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What is the extracellular matrix?

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Animal cells lack a cell wall but do have an ECM,
Integrins connect the ECM to the cell

66
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What are microfilaments?

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the thinnest of the types, built from molecules of actin

66
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What does anabolic mean?

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Synthesis of more complex compounds, energetic (requires energy)

66
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What are intermediate filaments?

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Middle sized
- Keratin is most common, only found in some animals

66
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what is a tight junction?

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Prevent fluid from moving across a layer of cells (waterproof)

67
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What is a desmosome?

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Strong connections between cells, connected to intermediate filaments, ‘fasten’ cells together

67
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What kinds of cellular work is ATP used for?

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Transport, mechanical, chemical

67
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What are gap junctions?

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used for ‘communication’
allows for transfer of ions, amino acids, sugars to pass through

67
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What does phosphorylate mean?

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ATP is a renewable resource, can be regenerated by addition of phosphate to ADP.

67
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What does catabolic mean?

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A disassembly of complex molecules, exergonic: releases energy

67
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Where does the energy to phosphorylate come from?

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Comes from the exergonic reactions in the cell (releases energy, this energy is used to phosphorylate)

67
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What are enzymes?

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macromolecules that act as a catalyst but not consumed

67
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What is the substrate?

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the reactant an enzyme acts on

67
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What is the active site?

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a pocket/groove on the surface of the enzyme where the enzyme binds

68
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What is a catabolic pathway?

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a metabolic pathways that release stored energy by breaking down molecules

69
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What is glycolysis?

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occurs in the cytosol, breaks glucose into two molecules of a compound called pyruvate

70
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What happens to pyruvate?

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Enters the mitochondria and is oxidized into acetyl CoA which enter the citric acid cycle

71
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What happens in the citric acid cycle after pyruvate is oxidized?

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The energy yielding oxidation is complete

72
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What happens to the hydrogen molecules after the citric acid cycle?

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The hydrogen atoms are passed 1st to an electron carrier

73
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What is the electron carrier called?

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NAD+ which turns into NADH

74
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What are dehydrogenases?

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Enzymes that remove a pair of hydrogen from the substrate

75
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What is the electron transport chain used for?

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A series of proteins that pass electrons from NADH to oxygen while accumulating hydrogen protons across a membrane

76
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NOTE** ATP synthase uses the energy of ion gradient like a water mill. A flow of hydrogen concentrates ADP and phosphate molecules in the membrane to form ATP
Power source come from hydrogen ion gradient

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77
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What is a genome?

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A cell’s DNA, genetic info (sex cell)

78
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What is chromatin?

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A mixture of DNA and proteins that form chromosomes

79
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What is a nucleosome?

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Basic repeating subunit of chromatin packaged in the cell’s nucleus

80
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Explain the structure of chromosomes?

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chromosomes, nucleosomes, chromatin

81
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What is the cell cycle and it’s steps?

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A series of events that take place as a cell grows and divides
- M, G1, S, G2

82
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What are duplicated chromosomes called?

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They are called sister chromatids

83
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What is a centromere?

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A region in the chromosome where chromatics are attached most closely

84
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What is interphase?

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G1-first gap, S-synthesis, G2- second gap

85
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What is chromatin?

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When a cell isn’t dividing, the chromosomes in a long thin chromatin fibre
chromatin also forms subunits of nucleosomes which form chromosomes

86
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What is the M phase?

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Both mitosis and cytokenesis occur here

87
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what is mitosis?

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The division of genetic material in the nucleus

88
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What are the 5 stages of mitosis?

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  1. Prophase: centrosome move away from each other
  2. prometaphase: nucelar envelope dissapears, chromosomes even more condensed, microtubules grow and attach to chromsomes
  3. Metaphase: Centrosomes now are opposite sides of cell, chromosomes lined up in the middle of the cell
  4. Anaphase: New daughter chromosomes pulled apart
  5. telophase: two daughter nuclei form, mitosis complete
89
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What is the mitotic spindle?

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Structure consists of fibres made of microtubules and proteins
- lines up chromosomes, formed during anaphase

90
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What is a kinetochore?

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A structure made of proteins, holds at the centre of a sister chromosomes

91
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What is cytokinesis?

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Cytoplasm divides to form two daughter cells, the ‘cleavage furrow’

92
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What regulates the cell cycle?

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regulated by a molecular control system composed of cyclin and cyclin-dependant kinases

93
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What is a kinase?

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An enzyme that adds phosphate groups to other molecules and modulates protein functions

94
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How do cyclin dependant kinases activate?

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must be attached to cyclin, acts as the go ahead signal

95
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Why does CDK concentration rise and fall?

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It’s dependant on cyclin concentrations which fluctuates

96
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Which nitrogenous base binds with which? Adenine, Thymine, C and uracil

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C with T, A with U

97
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What are cisternae?

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pockets that compose the Golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum

98
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What are cristae?

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Small grooves on the interior membrane of the mitochondria

99
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What are ribosomes composed of?

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Apart from the trna, mrna, and rrna, the ribosomes are made up of small and large subunits (large on ‘top’, small on ‘bottom’)

100
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What is generally bonded to proteins that leave the cell once synthesized?

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Carbohydrates

101
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What is the extracellular matrix composed of?

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Glycoproteins and carbohydrate molecules

102
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What holds the ECM to the cell?

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Integrin

103
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How is energy from ATP released?

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Through hydrolysis (breakdown releases energy)

104
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How do unicellular organisms identify mates?

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Through chemical signalling. Each cell type secretes a mating factor that hinds to the receptors on the other cell.

105
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What is quorum sensing?

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Bacterial cells secrete molecules that can be detected by other bacterial cells. Sensing the concentration of signalling molecules allows bacteria to monitor local density of cells called quorum sensing.

106
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What is the communication between direct cells?

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type of local signalling ex: gap junctions (communication between adjacent cells)

107
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What are cell junctions?

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Allows for molecules to pass between cells

108
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What is cell-cell recognition?

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Two cells in an animal cell communicate by interaction between molecules protruding from their surfaces

109
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What is paracrine signalling?

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Another type of local signalling, molecules are secreted by the signalling cell and these molecules travel short distances.

110
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What is synaptic signalling?

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A type of local signalling occurring in the animal nervous system

111
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What are the different kinds of local signalling?

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Synaptic signalling, paracrine signalling, gap junctions,

112
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What type of signalling stimulates muscle contraction?

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Synaptic signalling (includes synaptic signalling between a muscle and neuron)

113
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What is long distance signalling?

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When hormones are secreted to travel long distances to stimulate a signal in other regions of the body

114
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What are the 3 cell signalling stages?

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Signal reception, signal transduction, cellular response

115
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What is reception?

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A signalling molecule binds to a receptor protein causing it to change shape

116
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How do certain signalling molecules perform a signal without entering the cell?

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Most water soluble signalling molecules bind to specific sites on transmembrane receptor proteins that transmit information from the extracellular environment to the inside of the cell

117
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How is GTP bound?

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A G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) works with the help of a G protein

118
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What is GTP?

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Similar to ATP, primarily used for signalLING

119
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What is a kinase?

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An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate groups

119
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What is an RTK?

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Receptor Tyrosine Kinases belong to a major class of plasma membrane receptors characterized by having enzymatic activity

120
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What is phosphorylation?

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A mechanism for regulating protein activity. Activates or inactivates proteins. (adds a phosphate to a molecule)

121
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Where are intracellular receptors found?

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Found in the cytoplasm or nucleus of target cells

122
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What is transduction?

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Cascades of molecular interactions relay signals from receptors to target molecules in the cell

123
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What happens in a phosphorylation cascade?

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Series of proteins are phosphorylated, each protein adding a phosphate group to the next one in line

124
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What is the purpose of an enzyme cascade?

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Amplifies the cell’s response to a signal

125
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What is the response stage?

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Cell signalling leads to regulation of transcription or cytoplasmic activities (many pathways regulate protein synthesis, turning on or off in the nucleus)

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