Module 3 Flashcards
light energy is used to help visualize a specimen and magnify it so that parts or entire organisms that are not visible to our eye can be seen. Organisms can be viewed while still living and the image is in real color. Beam of light
Light Microscope
the process of enlarging an object in appearance.
Magnification
the ability of a microscope to distinguish two adjacent structures as separate: higher resolution, better the clarity and detail of the image.
Resolving Power
Frog Eye, Salt Granule, Paramecium, Plant Cell, E.Coli, Red Blood Cell, Flu Virus
What can be seen using a light microscope?
allows us to see things that are far smaller than can be viewed in a light microscope because they bounce electrons off the surface of the specimen instead of using larger light photons. Specimens require special treatment. You aren’t able to see living organisms and the images are in black and white. A beam of electrons.
Electron Microscope
electron beam penetrates the cell and provides details of a cell’s internal structure. Restricted to a layer of the cell. High resolution of sliced specimens.
Transmission Electron
a beam of electrons moves back and forth across a cell’s surface, creating details of cell surface characteristics. If split open, it provides surface images of inside the cell.
Scanning Electron Microscopes
Plant cell, Red Blood Cell, E.Coli, Flu Virus, Hemoglobin, Antibody, DNA,
What can be seen using an electron microscope?
recognizing the fundamental nature of cells as the units of life.
Cell Theory
All organisms consist of one or more cells.
The cell is the basic unit of life.
All cells arise only from pre-existing cells.
Three Main Generalizations of the Cell Theory
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Nucleus, Mitochondria, ER, Golgi, Cell Wall, Central Vacuole, Chloroplast.
Plants
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Nucleus, Mitochondria, ER, Golgi, Cell Wall (some), Central Vacuole (some), Chloroplast (some).
Protist
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Nucleus, Mitochondria, ER, Golgi, Cell Wall.
Fungal
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Cell Wall.
Bacterial
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Nucleus, Mitochondria, ER, Golgi.
Animal
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, DNA, and Ribosomes
ALL CELLS
Nucleus, Miochondria, ER, and Golgi
ALL Eukaryotes
Cell Wall, Central Vacuole, and Chloroplast
ALL plants, not at all in animals, and sometimes in others (Protists).
small cells with no internal organelles, live in every possible habitat, found in Archaea and Bacteria.
Prokaryotic Cells
large cells with many organelles that are part of a much larger multicellular organism, classified as a Kingdom within the Domain Eukarya.
Plant Cells and/or Animal Cells
small to large cells, single or colonial, contain many organelles, highly diverse, found in autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms, classified as a Kingdon within the Domain Eukarya.
Protistan Cells
large cells with many organelles that are part of a much larger multicellular organism, multinucleate (more than one nucleus), classified as a Kingdom within the Domain Eukarya.
Fungal Cells
Which cell type can perform all the chemical “jobs” of a cell most efficiently.
Eukaryotes because they have organelles to carry out different reactions.
Internal membranes enclosing their DNA (a nucleus) and other organelles.
Cytoplasm, Plasma Membrane, Ribosomes, Nucleus, Mitochondria, ER, Golgi in all Eukaryotes.
Cell wall, Central Vacuole, and Chloroplast in some Eukaryotes (all in plants, some in protists, and cell wall only in fungi).
Many organelles
Multicellular organisms
Kingdom within the Domain Eukarya
Larger cell size
Intracellular transport.
The study of the structure and function of these surfaces.
Eukaryotes
membrane bound compartments within a cell that function much like the organs of an animal.
Organelles
Make up of phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins that separates the internal contents of the cell.
Controls the passage of organic molecules, ions, water, and oxygen into and out of the cell.
Waste exits the cell by passing through the plasma membrane.
Semipermeable – certain substances can pass through
Proteins, glycoproteins (proteins with carbohydrates attached), cholesterol (type of lipid) = Eukaryotes
Structure is stabilized by ergosterol (steroid molecule related to cholesterol) = Fungi
Plasma Membrane
Most prominent organelle in a cell.
Houses the cell’s DNA.
The information in DNA Directs the synthesis of ribosomes and proteins.
Semi-solid fluid inside the nucleus, Nucleoplasm, which contains a nucleolus and chromatin.
nuclear envelope, chromatin and chromosomes, and a nucleolus are found here.
Nucleus
double-membrane structure that constitutes the outermost portion of the nucleus. Inner and outer membranes are phospholipid bilayers. Pores control the passage of ions, molecules, and RNA between the nucleoplasm and cytoplasm
Nuclear Envelope
are structures within the nucleus that are made up of DNA packaged with proteins.
Linear structures, every eukaryotic species has a specific number of these, only visible and distinguishable from one another when the cell is getting ready to divide.
Growth and maintenance phases look like a jumbled bunch of threads.
Chromosomes
the protein-chromosome complexes that make up the chromosomes.
Chromatin
The region of a cell between the plasma membrane and the nuclear envelope.
Consists of gel-like cytosol, organelles, the cytoskeleton, and various chemicals.
Mostly made up of water (70-80%)
Semi-solid consistency because of the large numbers of proteins within it.
Organic molecules: glucose, simple sugars, complex carbohydrates, amino acids, nucleic acids, fatty acids, and derivatives of glycerol.
Ions: sodium, potassium, calcium, etc.
Protein synthesis and other metabolic reactions take place in the cytoplasm.
Cytoplasm
Are the site of protein synthesis.
Appear as clusters or single, tiny dots that float freely in the cytoplasm.
Attached to the cytoplasmic side of the plasma membrane or rough endoplasmic reticulum or the outer membrane of the nuclear envelope.
Two subunits, large and small.
Receive their “orders” from protein synthesis from the nucleus, which is where DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), then the mRNA travels to the ribosomes, which translates the code in the mRNA into a specific protein.
Found in EVERY cell.
There are a ton of ribosomes in cells that synthesize large amounts of proteins.
Ribosomes
Powerhouse or energy factories – they are responsible for making adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Cellular respiration is the process of making ATP using the chemical energy found in glucose and other molecules.
Uses glucose and oxygen and produces water and carbon dioxide as a waste product.
Muscle cells have lots of these.
Oval shaped organelles surrounded by a double membrane which contains its own DNA and ribosomes.
Inner layer has folds called cristae.
Area surrounding the folds called mitochondrial matrix.
Mitochondria
a type of nucleotide and is the main short-term energy storage molecule.
ATP
Both are membrane-bound sacs that function in storage and transport.
Transport, lysosomes, peroxisomes, secretory
Vesicles
move materials around inside the cell, from one organelle to the next.
Transport Vesicles
enzymes that breakdown waste products (only found in animal cells).
Lysosomes
use oxygen to break down fatty acids, amino acids, and detoxify poisons.
Peroxisomes
fuse with the plasma membrane to release waste or produces of a cell (hormones).
Secretory Vesicles
larger than vesicles
deal with water balance in a cell.
More common in plant, fungal, and some protistans cells.
When it shrinks, the cell wall is unsupported.
Lose of support to the cell wall – wilted appearance to the plant
Expansion of the cell – hold more water, the cell gets larger without having to invest a lot of energy in synthesizing new cytoplasm.
Vacuoles
It regulates the cell’s concentration of water in changing environmental conditions.
Central Vacuole
Made up of different types of protein that form different sized tubules with different functions.
Separation of the chromosomes and cytoplasm during cell division
Cytoskeleton
form the cilia and flagella that allow cells to “swim” or move materials around the outside of the cell by creating currents.
Microtubules
short and numerous
Cilia
longer and singular
Flagella
Plants, fungi, and some protists.
Ridged covering that protects the cell, provides structural support, and gives shape to the cell.
Prokaryotic cell walls: peptidoglycan
Cell Wall
Have their own DNA and ribosomes.
Found in plants and some protists that carry out photosynthesis.
Outer and inner membranes
Within the space enclosed by the inner membrane there is a set of interconnected and stacked fluid-filled membrane sacs called thylakoids.
Each thylakoids sack is called a granum.
The fluid enclosed that surrounds the granum is called the stroma.
Green pigment = chlorophyll
Chlorophyll – captures the light energy that drives the reaction of photosynthesis.
Chloroplasts
Understand the structural differences between animal and plant cells, and describe how these structural differences affect cell functions.
There are three components that make the plant cell and animal cell different from each other. The plant cell has a cell wall, central vacuole, and chloroplast where the animal cell does not. The cell wall helps maintain the cell shape. The central vacuole is filled with cell sap that maintains pressure against the cell wall. The chloroplast is where photosynthesis occurs; animals are not photosynthesizers.
evolved at least partially through some cells engulfing and retaining other cells nearly intact. Mitochondria and chloroplasts are the organelles with this origin. An ancestor of modern eukaryotes engulfed an aerobic bacteria and they then co-evolved to become dependent upon each other. Later, one lineage of mitochondria-containing eukaryotes engulfed a photosynthetic bacteria that became the chloroplasts of plants and some protists.
Endosymbiotic Theory
double membranes – derived from the original prokaryotic inner and outer cell membranes.
Their own chromosomes that are circular like those in prokaryotes. DNA sequencing data shows they are more similar to certain modern bacteria than they are to eukaryotic genes.
Ribosomes that are smaller than the ones in their eukaryotic host cells and that are the same size as prokaryotic ribosomes.
Undergo binary fission, not constructed by the cell in which they live.
Endosymbiotic Theory Evidence
Located in the nucleus, 1+ charge
protons
located in the nucleus, 0 charge
neutrons
located in the orbitals, 1- charge
electrons
Atoms are more stable when they gain or lose an electron and form ions.
Fill their outermost electron shell.
When the electrons don’t equal the number of protons, each ion has a net charge.
Cations are positively charged ions and they are formed by losing electrons.
Anions are negatively charged ions that are formed by gaining electrons.
Formed between ions with opposite charges.
Not as strong as covalent bonds when in water (ionic bonds are weak in water because water can interact with the charges = why table salt dissolves in water).
Ionic Bonds
the strongest bons because the two atoms are sharing a pair of electrons which orbit both.
They are strong enough to hold molecules stably together in water.
Some bonds can be polar/polar water can form these bonds.
Individually weak But are important because they are Very numerous inside cells
Occurs when atoms share electrons and are much more common than ionic bonds in the molecules of living organisms.
The more covalent bonds the stronger their connection.
Hydrogen and oxygen atoms that combine to form water molecules are bond together.
Polar and Nonpolar
Covalent Bonds
the electrons are unequally shared and are attracted more to one atom than the other. A slightly positive and slightly negative charge developed. Water/Hydrophilic
Polar
has an affinity for water (charged ions and polar molecules)
Hydrophilic
Form between two atoms of the same element or between different elements that share electrons equally. (O2) is nonpolar because the electrons will be equally distributed between the two oxygen atoms.
Hydrophobic
Nonpolar
no affinity for water (nonpolar molecules) Fatty acids
hydrophobic
The electrical attraction of a positively charged hydrogen of one molecule to the negatively charged region of another molecule.
Weaker bonds.
Provide many of the critical, life-sustaining properties of water and also stabilize the structures of proteins and DNA.
Slightly positive, it will be attracted to negative charge.
A weak interaction occurs between S+ charge of the hydrogen from one molecule and the S- charge on the more electronegative atoms of another molecule, usually oxygen or nitrogen, or within the same molecule.
Single hydrogen bonds are weak and easily broken.
Large numbers of water and large organic molecules create a major force in combination.
Hydrogen Bonds
makes up at least 70% of our body.
Most abundant molecule
polar.
these molecules attract other water molecules forming hydrogen bonds.
attracted to other polar molecules and ions.
Hydrophilic – dissolves in water, like water.
Hydrophobic – don’t interact well with water, don’t like it.
75% of the weight of a cell
Major constituent of the cytoplasm.
water
the scale by which we record the probability that a hydrogen bond between water molecules can be strong enough for one molecule to pull the hydrogen atom away from the other.
A simpler and more common definition is a measure of the concentration of H+ ions [H+] in a solution.
pH measures
pH = -log[H+] – [H+] is the probability that hydrogen atoms are freed to form hydronium/concentration of H+ measured in moles/liter
pH Equation
Start as two water molecules and then are transformed into hydroxide and hydronium.
pH
a substance that increases the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution, usually by having one of
HCl + H2O –> H+ + Cl- + H2O
Acid
provides either hydroxide ions or other negatively charged ions that combine with hydrogen ions, reducing their concentration in the solution and thereby raising the pH. Strong bases are those substances that readily donate OH- or take up hydrogen ions.
NH3 + N+ + OH- –> NH4+ + OH-
Base
anything below 7 is acidic and anything about 7 is alkaline. 7 is normal neutral. Anything that extremes in pH in either direction from 7 is usually inhospitable to life.
Using the negative logarithm to generate positive integers, high concentrations of hydrogen ions yield a low pH number, whereas low levels of hydrogen ions result in a high pH.
Logarithmic Scale
monomers are bound together by covalent bonds to form polymers in a chemical reaction.
This causes the OH from one monomer and the H from another to form water as the two monomers bind.
Water is a product of the reaction and is released into the solution.
When the bonds are forming together, monomers release water molecules as byproducts.
Monomers share electrons and form covalent bonds.
Forms new bonds, requiring energy.
Condensation