Plant cells

Question 1

Whats a pit?

Answer 1

Moves things from cell to cell quickly

Question 2

Whats plasmodesma?

Answer 2

strand of cytoplasm that makes cytoplasm continuous between cellsm making removal easy

Question 3

Whats middle lamella

Answer 3

made of calcium perate like a glue that holds the cell together

Question 4

Whats amyloplast

Answer 4

contains amylose and amylopectin storage for starch grains

Question 5

Whats tonoplast?

Answer 5

tones the cell, selective membrane to the vacuole, lets water into the vacuole and stops it from expanding to the cell wall

Question 6

Whats the vacuole

Answer 6

contains cell sap and keeps the cell turgid

Stores waste products and other substances changes in volume after turgidity

Question 7

Describe microfibrils

Answer 7

Hydrogen bonds form between the OH on the Ch2OH and H
wound in helical arrangement around th ecell and stuck together with polysaccharide glue known as hemicelluloses and pectins
laid dow at different angles making it strong

Question 8

What is pectin

Answer 8

important to middle lamella, acts as a cement

Question 9

Describe cellulose

Answer 9

B glucose
1-4 glycosidic bonds formed from a condensation reaction
Straight chained
Linked together by H bonds to form microfibrils

Question 10

Whats the role cellulose

Answer 10

structural molecule of plant cell walls

Question 11

What are the properties of cellulose

Answer 11

Insoluble
hydrogen bonds between parallele cellulose gives strength
Criss cross arrangement makes the cell strong