Organelles Flashcards

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Nucleus

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Contains chromatin
cell control center
surrounded by double layer of membrane

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Transport Vesicle

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Carries secretions for export from cell
Buds off Golgi body
How proteins and other substances get from ER to Golgi body

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Central Vacuole

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Stores water, needed chemicals, wastes, pigments in plant cell

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Smooth ER

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Manufactures lipids
breaks down drugs and toxins in liver
stores calcium in muscle cells
drug tolerance results from enlarging this

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Lysosomes

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sac of digestive enzymes
Defective in Tay-Sachs disease
digests food, waste, foreign substances
fuses with food vacuole

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Golgi Apparatus

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ships products to plasma membrane outside or other organelles
takes in transport vesicles from ER and modifies their contents
marks and sorts molecules
buds from here become lysosomes

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Rough ER

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makes cell membranes
numerous ribosomes give it its name
where proteins are made and modified for secretion

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Contractile Vacuole

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pumps out excess water from some cells

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Ribosomes

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Makes proteins

non membranous organelle

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Plasma Membrane

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Boundary between cell and its surroundings

Phospholipid bilateral with proteins

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