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Atom

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Smallest most basic UNIT of MATTER

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Cell

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Smallest most basic LIVING ORGANISM

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Essential properties of life

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growth, reproduction, movement, and evolution

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Examples of unicellular organism

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Bacteria, yeasts, and tiny algaes that float on ocean or ponds.
Protesists

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Cells differ in

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Size and shape

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The Cell Theory

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All organisms are made up of CELLS
The cell is the FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF LIFE
Cells come from PREEXISTING cells

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What are cells like in multi-cellular organisms

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Cells are specialized to carry out different functions
Skin cells; protection form the outside environment
Skeletal muscle cells; help move body
Liver cells; process and help break down food eaten
Nerve cells; process information and help control and coordinate the functions of our various organs

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What is the simplest entitiy we can define as living

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The cell

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Properties of life

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Can reproduce, respond to the environment, harness energy and evolve

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What do all cells contain

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Discrete boundaries between the interior of the cell and the external environment
Maintains the inside in a way that is compatible with life
All contain INFORMATION on the molecular form that can be passed onto other cells
Can harness energy
Can harness materials from the environment to carry out functions

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How do cells carry out functions

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Harness materials from the environment

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Cell membranes

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Separates living material within the cell from the nonliving environment around it.
Controls the movement of materials into and out of the cell
Maintains conditions inside the cell so that it remains compatible with life

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How do cells build macromolecules from their surroundings

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They continually acquire and exchange ions and the building blocks required to build them

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Where is the active and dynamic interplay between cells and their surroundings

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At the cell membrane

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The internal environment of the cell is ____. Examples.

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Stable
pH range, salt concentration, temperature, heart rate, blood sugar, blood pressure, blood pH, water content must be within a narrow range.

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What cellular functions require stable cells

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chemical reactions, protein folding

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Homeostasis

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The active maintenance of stable internal conditions

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What kind of process is homeostasis

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An active process and requires a stable and steady interplay between interior and changing exterior eniornment

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Active process

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Cell or organism uses ENERGY to maintain homeostasis

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Why do cells need energy

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to maintain homeostasis

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What do cells do with information

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store, use and transmit
It accurately and rapidly encodes and helps determine their physical features, and function.
Transmits information to daughter cells;

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Information archive in all organisms
Directs the synthesis of proteins

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DNA

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DNA directs the formation of

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Proteins
Guides the synthesis of RNA first

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Key structural and functional molecule that do the work of the cells

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Proteins

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Every aspect of the cells existence depends on
Proteins internal architecture, shape, ability to move, various chemical reactions.
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Ribosome
A complex structure that is the site where the protein is assembled
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Sequence of nucleotides
DNA and RNA
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Sequence of amino acids
Proteins
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Translate RNA language into protein language
Ribosome
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simplest entity we can define as living
Cell
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Living means it can
Reproduce, respond to environment, and evolve
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Cells come from preexisting cells through
Cell division Copy and archive information rapidly, and accurately to pass on to daughter cells
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A common entity shared among millions of species
The cell
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We can extend everything we learn from cells to all forms of life
True
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Cell membrane/ Plasma membrane
Boundaries that separate biotic interior and abiotic outside Maintains homeostasis so that the cell remains compatible with life
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What materials does the cell membrane control
Things in and out of cell Take and exchange ions and building blocks to build macromolecules Excrete waste produces
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Which environment in relation to the cell is more stable
Interior
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Why is homeostasis inportant
For chemical reactions, protein folding, and other cell functions that occur efficiently only within narrow range of conditions
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Cell membrane maintains homeostasis of what
pH, salt concentrations, heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, blood sugar, water concentrations
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Is homeostasis active or passive, why?
Active process since it uses energy and continuous interplay between inside and outside of the cell
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How do cells determine their features
All cells have a stable archive of information encodes/ DNA to determine their physical features.
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Ribosome
Complex structure that is the site of protein synthesis Translate RNA into language of proteins Translates nucleotides into amino acids
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DNA direct the formation of
Proteins, key functional and structural molecules that do cell work
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Proteins are important for
Internal architecture, shape, ability to move, various chemical reactions
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Cells obtain energy from where
chemical compounds and the sun
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Metabolism is important for
harnessing energy to grow, move, communicate
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Metabolism
Entire set of chemical reactions where cells transfer energy from one form to another Build and break down molecules in reactions needed to sustain life
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How is ATP energy gained
Metabolic chemical reactions that break down molecules, releasing energy, stored as ATP
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Adenosine triphosphate
Enables cells to carry out functions, growth, division, moving substances across membrane, etc.
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2 Branches of metabolism
Catabolism and Annabolism
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Catabolism
SET OF Reactions that BREAK DOWN molecules unit subunits, releasing ATP energy and heat
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Anabolism
SET OF Reactions that BUILD molecules from subunits and require energy input
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How can catabolism reactions release more energy
Further breaking down initial produces to release energy from CHEMICAL BONDS
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Why do we know that metabolic reactions evolved early in human life
Same reactions are found in many different organism, HIGHLY CONSERVED
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What is the primary structure of proteins and what does it do
Long chain of amino acids, that determined how a protein will fold into its final shape
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How do amino acids connect with eachother
Covalent peptide bonds
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What does the tertiary structure determined of a protein
Protein's final shape that determine the molecules FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES
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Blood cells shape and use
Biconcave to pass through narrow blood cells, gives high surface area allowing the cell to pick up and release oxygen throughout the body
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Live Cells
Spherical build and break down macromolecules
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Muscle cells
Long and slender to contract and exert force
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Neuron cell
Long and branched to communicate with other cells and organs
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Nucleus
Membrane-bound space, House of genetic material Selectively controls movement of molecules and out of cell
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Cytoplasm
The space outside the nucleus
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Domains
groups
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First cells on earth
Single-celled prokaryotes
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Domains of prokaryotes
Bacteria and archaea
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What can we learn form Archaea
Tolerate environment extreme so we can DEFINE THE LIMITS OF LIFE Can grow and reproduce in hot temperatures, some thriive under high salinity (acid mines)
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Why do prokaryotes thrive
small size, ability to reproduce quickly and obtain energy and nutrients from diverse sources
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Where is the DNA found in prokaryotes
In the region called a NUCLEOID arranged in many loops
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How do prokaryotes maintain shape
Have a cell wall around plasma membrane
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Peptidoglycan
Bacteria cell wall subunits Polymer of sugars amino acids
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Flagella
Structures that allow bacteria and other PROKARYOTIC cells move
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Which single cells contain plasmids
Bacteria and Archaea
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Plasmid
Much smaller circular molecules of DNA, that carry just a few genes Advantage having genes and rapidly spread through bacteria population
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Pili
Extend from one cell to another when they transfer plasmids
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How are plasmids transfered
through the use of pili
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Which primitive cell is there more of
Prokaryotes outnumber Eukaryotes
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Bacteria and Archaea are
Single-celled prokaryotes that are very metabolically diverse. More closely related to each other than to Eukaryotes Differ in structure of cell wall, how to synthesize RNA from DNA
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Eukarya
3rd Domain of life Include animals plants and fungi, and protists
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Protists
Single celled eukaryotic organisms
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How is DNA organized in Eukaryotes
as MULTIPLE LINEAR CHAINS within the nucleus
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Why is the nuclear membrane important
Allows for more complex REGULATION of gene expression than in prokaryotes
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DNA directs the process of
RNA synthesis
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RNA directs
Protein synthesis
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Protein synthesis in prokaryotes
RNA and Protein synthesis occur immediately one after another
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What do the many membranes in Eukaryotes define
Organelles compartments
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Organelles
Small specialized specs for different functions
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Cytosol
Jelly-like material outside of the nucleus and organelles
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Cilia
Rod-like structures that extend from EUKARYOTIC CELLS In single celled eukaryotes
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2 types of cilia
NONmotile (most common) and Motile cilia
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Motile Cilia
Moves and propel movement of cells or fluids surrounding the cells
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Non-motile cilia
Most common Serve as a sensory function, taking in environmental signals and convey them into the cell interior Found in nose and eyes
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Cilia are found in
Single celled Eukaryotes Algae and protists and propel them through water
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Long cilia are found in
Sperm cells and upper airways of mammals where they beat mucus and debris out of the lungs

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