Organelles Flashcards
Does a prokaryote have a nucleus?
No
What is the diameter of a typical prokaryote cell?
1 um
What is the diameter of a typical eukaryote cell?
10-100 um
Does a prokaryote cell have a cytoskeleton?
No
Does prokaryote have cytoplasmic organelles?
No
Prokaryote cells have ______ ______ DNA
Single Cirulcar
Eukaryote cells have ______ ______ DNA
multiple linear
Walls of prokaryotes are made of?
Carbohydrate (peptidoglycan)
RER is responsible for _____ production
protein
SER is responsible for _____ production
lipid
What gives membranes their shape?
microfilaments
What is the backbone of all membranes?
phospholipid bilayer
How does cholesterol affect a membrane?
It increases the rigidity
Cholesterol has a ______ head
hydrophilic
Glycolipid is a phospholipid with ______ attached sugar chains
covalently
What kind of chains only face the extracellular surface?
Carbohydrate chains
What is another name for integral protein?
Transmembrane protein
What color will gram-negative prokaryotes stain?
Pink
What color will gram-positive prokaryotes stain?
Purple
Explain why some prokaryotes will stain pink and some purple
Gram negative bacteria has to membranes, (outer membrane, then cell wall, then plasma membrane) so the stain can’t get through the wall. Gram positive bacteria only has one plasma membrane (a cell wall on top) so stain binds to carbohydrates in cell wall and it stains purple
What is glycocalyx?
The name of carbohydrates on eukaryotic surface
What cannot cross a cell membrane unless they are transported through channels or transporters?
Anything hydrophilic (can’t cross the hydrophobic part of bilayer)
A vacoule is responsible for?
Water storage
What is responsible for the synthesis of ribosomal RNA?
nucleolus
What is responsible for DNA replication, synthesis of tRNA, mRNA, and some nuclear proteins?
Nucleus
Where does glycolysis, and many reactions in gluconeogenesis take place?
Cytosol
Where does pentose phosphate pathways, activation of a.a., fatty acid synthesis, and nucleotide synthesis take place?
Cytosol
Where does glycogen synthesis and degradation take place?
Glycogen granules
What are lysosomes responsible for?
Segregation of hydrolytic enzymes such as ribonuclease and acid phosphatase
What is ER responsible for?
Lipid synthesis, direction of biosynthetic products to their ultimate location
What are ribosomes responsible for?
Protein synthesis
What is responsible for a.a. oxidation, catalse & perodiase reactions, sterol degradation?
Microbodies
What are the duties of the golgi complex?
Maturation of glycoproteins & other components of membranes and secretory vessels
Where does citric acid cycle, ETC, odiative phosphorylation, fatty acid oxidation, amino acid catabolism, pyruvate oxidation take place?
Mitochondria
Where does the inner leaflet of cell membrane face?
cytoplasm
Where does outer leaflet of cell membrane face?
extracellularly
Phospholipids, glycolipids, and cholesterol are all components of ____ _____
Cell membrane
Cholesterol is a type of _____
Steroid
Triglyceride store ____
fat
Phosphatidylcholine is an example of a ______
phospholipid
What does amphipathic mean?
has hydrophobic & hydrophillic parts
Describe structure of phospholipid
amphipathic, polar head and 2 non-polar tails (tails are made of carbon)
All lipids are ____
amphipathic
Is cholesterol found on the inner or outer leaflet?
both
Are glycolipids found on the inner or outer leaflet?
outer
glycolipid carbohydrate residues form ____
glycocalyx
A phospholipid has a polar head and two non-polar tails, what is important about the tails?
One is kinked (unsaturated, double bonds) and one is no kinked (saturated)
How does more kinks in a phosphlipid tail affect the cell membrane?
It makes it more fluid
How does less kinks in a phospholipid tail affect the cell membrane?
It makes it less fluid
Phosphatidic acid is an example of what?
Phospholipid
Phocholinesphatidyl is an example of what?
Phospholipid
Phosphatidyl-ethanolamine is an example of what?
Phospholipid
Phosphatidyl-serine is an example of what?
Phospholipid
Where is phosphatidyl-serine found and why?
It is usually found on inner membrane. When a cell is undergoing apoptosis, an enzyme will flip it to outer membrane, signaling to macrophages to engulf it
Phosphatidyl-inositol is an example of what?
Phospholipid
Sphingomyelin is an example of what?
Phospholipid