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Module 3 (Cells and Membranes) Flashcards

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Aquaporins

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Channel proteins that facilitate the passage of water

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Influx

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Movement of a substance into a cell

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Efflux

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Movement of a substance out of a cell

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Diffusion

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Spontaneous
Net movement from high concentration to low concentration

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Passive Transport

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Requires no energy to move molecules across a membrane

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Simple Diffusion

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Movement of small molecules or hydrophobic molecules through the cell membrane

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Facilitated Diffusion

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Molecules that move across a concentration gradient, but through a protein transporter

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Channel Protein

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Formed by integral membrane proteins
Selectively permeable
Sometimes exist as gated channels

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Carrier proteins

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Specific molecules bind to transporter and moves across concentration gradient

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How does a carrier protein work?

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A molecule binds to the carrier protein, and it triggers a structural change in the protein. The protein is now exposed to the other membrane surface, and diffuses across concentration gradient.

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What type of membrane protein has a transmembrane segment?

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Integral

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Osmosis

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The diffusion of water across a semi-permeable membrane

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Tonicity

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The ability of a surrounding solution to cause a cell to gain or lose water

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Osmotic Pressure

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the external pressure that must be applied to stop osmosis

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Crenation

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Animal cells shrivel and die when hypertonic

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Plasmolysis

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Plant cells will pull away from surround cell wall

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Hypotonic

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Solution has a lower [solute] than the cell, water moves into cell, cell can burst

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Hypertonic

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Solution has higher [solute] than the cell, water leaves cell

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Hemolysis

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Red blood cells swell and eventually burst

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Turgor Pressure

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The pressure from plant cells pushing against their surrounding cell wall

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Active Transport

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Movement of substances against the concentration gradient, requires energy

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Isotonic

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When the [solute] is equal both inside and outside the cell

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Primary Active Transport

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Active transport that directly breaks down ATP to move solutes against a concentration gradient. Usually uses a transporter

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Protein carrier

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Active transporter

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Electrochemical Gradient

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Has both an electrical (charge) component and a chemical component. Can drive the movement of other molecules through secondary active transport

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Secondary Active Transport

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Uses an electrochemical gradient to move ions across the membrane

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Antiport

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A membrane transport process that carries one substance in one direction and another in the opposite direction.

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Symport

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A membrane transport process that carries two substances in the same direction across the membrane.

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Endoplasmic Reticulum

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Synthesis of proteins and lipids, network of tubules and flattened sacs

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Lumen

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The interior space of the endoplasmic reticulum

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Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

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Has ribosomes, makes proteins

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Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

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No ribosomes
Fatty acid and phospholipid synthesis

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Ribosomes

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Sites of protein synthesis
May also be found free in the cytosol

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Golgi Apparatus

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Modifies and sorts proteins and lipids produced by the ER, also adds carbohydrates to proteins and lipids (glycolipids and glycoproteins)

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Cisternae

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Flattened sacs in the golgi apparatus, surrounded by small vesicles

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Glycosylation

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Where sugars are covalently linked to lipids or specific amino acids of proteins

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Mitochondria

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Specialized organelles that harness energy for the cell. They grow and multiply independently and contain their own circular genomes.

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Cytoskeleton

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A protein scaffold that provides the cell structure

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Cell wall

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In plant cells, provides additional support to the cell

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Vacuoles

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Contribute to the structure of a plant cell by maintaining turgor pressure

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Chloroplasts

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Convert the energy from sunlight into chemical energy

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The Endomembrane System

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The system of interconnected organelles within the cell

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Bulk Transport

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Cells bring in and remove larger molecules and particles across the membrane, without breaking continuity of the cell membrane

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Exocytosis

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A vesicle fuses with the cell membrane and releases contents into the extracellular space

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Endocytosis

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The process where material from outside the cell is brought into a vesicle that can fuse with other organelles, and bring it inside.

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Invaginates

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Forms a pocket around the target material

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Phagocytosis

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(Cell eating) Uptake of particulate matter and delivery to a lysosome via a phagosome

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Phagosome

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Intracellular vesicle containing material taken up by phagocytosis.

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Phagocytosis provides…

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Nutrition and defense

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Pinocytosis

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(Cell drinking) A type of endocytosis in which the cell ingests extracellular fluid and its dissolved solutes.

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Receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Material binds to receptor proteins on cell membrane, vesicle forms around it and delivers material to endosomes

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Endosomes

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Transport, package, and sort cell material traveling to and from the membrane

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Early endosomes

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Located near peripheral region of cell.

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Late endosomes

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Located in interior part of the cell, and receive material from early endosomes and Golgi apparatus

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Clathrin

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Protein that coats the inward-facing surface of the plasma membrane and assists in the formation of specialized structures, like coated pits, for receptor-mediated endocytosis

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Nuclear Envelope

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A double membrane that surrounds the nucleus of a cell

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Nuclear pores

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Allow molecules to move into and out of the nucleus, found on the nuclear membrane

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Lysosomes

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Specialized vesicles derived from the Golgi apparatus, they degrade damaged or unneeded macromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and complex carbohydrates). Contain enzymes that allow them to break down material.

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What is the pH of a lysosome?

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Around 5, which is moderated by a proton pump

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Outer membrane of mitochondria

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Contain integral proteins, that form large, nonselective membrane channels called porins

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Intermembrane space of mitochondria

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An aqueous compartment between outer and inner membrane

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Inner membrane of mitochondria

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Highly convoluted, and is the location for the electron transport chain and ATP synthase

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Mitochondrial matrix

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The location of the citric acid cycle, ribosomes and DNA

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What is the function of a chloroplast?

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To be the location where photosynthesis takes place

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Photosynthesis

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Taking the sun’s energy and converting it into simple sugars

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Thylakoid membrane

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Contains light-collecting molecules called pigments (eg. chlorophyll)
Found in chloroplasts, is inner membrane

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Thylakoids

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Flattened membrane sacs within chloroplast

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Lumen (chloroplast)

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Space inside a thylakoid

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Grana

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The orderly stacks of thylakoids in a chloroplast

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Stroma

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Space surrounding thylakoids

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Cyanobacteria

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What do chloroplasts resemble?
Where do chloroplasts originate?

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Proteobacteria

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What do mitochondria resemble?
Where did mitochondria originate?

BIOL 130 (11 decks)

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