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Second Exam Flashcards

1
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What do lipids do in cells?

A

Used as secondary energy sources
Major component of membranes

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2
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Why are lipids used for energy?

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High energy to weight ratio
Harder to metabolize

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3
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What are triglycerides?

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Storage lipids like fats and oils that consist of a glycerol bound to three fatty acids

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4
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What are fatty acids?

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Long hydrocarbon chain with a carboxylic head

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5
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What are the two forms of fatty acids?

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Saturated and Unsaturated

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6
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What are ester bonds?

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The bond between the hydroxyl of a glycerol and the carboxyl of a fatty acid

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7
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What form do saturated fatty acids take?

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Solid

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8
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What form do unsaturated fatty acids take?

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Oils, liquid

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9
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What are phospolipids?

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Glycerol ester bonded to 2 fatty acids and a phosphate group which is bound to a variable hydrophilic molecule

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10
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What is the cystol?

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Aqueous part of the cytoplasm of the cell

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11
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What is the lumen?

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Extracellular space

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12
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How does hydrocarbon tail length effect fluidity?

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The shorter the tail, the greater the fluidity

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13
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How does unsaturation effect fluidity?

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Unsaturated means more fluidity

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14
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What do sterols in membranes do to fluidity?

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Decrease it

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15
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How does temp effect fluidity?

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Fluidity increases with temp

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16
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Where are new phospholipids made?

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Cystolic side of smooth ER membrane

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17
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What are scramblase enzymes?

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Randomly moves phospholipids to even out the membrane

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18
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What does flippase and floppase do?

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Move specific phospholipids to different sides of the layer

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19
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What are the membrane proteins?

A

Transporters
Anchors
Enzymes
Channels
Receptors

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20
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What are integral proteins?

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Tightly associated with membranes, some embedded, sometimes transmembrane, and commonly are alpha and beta folded

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21
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What are peripheral proteins?

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Loosely associated with membrane, may be linked to other substances

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22
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What are glycolipids?

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Lipid tails attached to a sugar head, the head is exposed to the cell exterior

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23
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What are proteoglycans?

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Proteins attached to long chains of repeating sugars

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24
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What are glycoproteins?

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Proteins attached to short, highly branched sugar chains

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25
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What is glycocalyix?

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Sugar coating of plasma membrane, promotes biofilm formation

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26
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What is a cell cortex?

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specialized layer of cytoplasmic proteins on the inner face of the cell membrane

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27
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What is spectrin?

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Protein that lines the intracellular side of the plasma membrane

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28
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What can cell cortex abnormalities result in?

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Anemia

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29
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What can move through semi-permeable cell membranes?

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Small nonpolar molecules and some uncharged polar molecules

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30
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What can not move through semi-permeable cell membranes?

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Charged molecules and ions

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31
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What is passive transport?

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No energy, movement goes with the gradient

32
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What is active transport?

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Needs energy, goes against the gradient

33
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What factors affect passive transport?

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Chemical gradient
Membrane potential
Electrochemical gradient

34
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What is the chemical gradient?

A

the difference in molecule concentrations across a cell membrane

35
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What is membrane potential?

A

the electrical potential difference across the plasma membrane

36
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What is the electrochemical gradient?

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measure of the free energy available to carry out transporting the molecule across the membrane

37
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What are ways a cell tries to reach equilibrium?

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Simple diffusion
Osmosis
Facilitated diffusion

38
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What is isotonic?

A

Equal concentrations

39
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What is hypotonic?

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high solute inside cell, high water outside cell

40
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What is hypertonic?

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high solute outside cell, high water inside cell

41
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What is osmolysis?

A

rupture of a cell membrane due to excessive water intake

42
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What is plasmolysis?

A

Shriveling of a cell due to loss of water

43
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How to protozoans regulate equilibrium

A

They discharge contractile vacuoles of water

44
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What is a uniporter?

A

Facilitates the diffusion of a single substance

45
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What is a symporter?

A

proteins that simultaneously transport two molecules across a membrane in the same direction

46
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What is a antiporter?

A

protein that transports two molecules at the same time in the opposite direction

47
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What are the different Transport Ion Channel Gates?

A

Voltage Gated
Ligand Gated
Mechanically Gated

48
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What is a voltage gated channel?

A

Channel stimulated by membrane potentials

49
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What is a ligand gated channel?

A

Channel stimulated by ligand binding

50
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What is a mechanically gated channel?

A

Channel stimulated by mechanical force or stress

51
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What is resting membrane potential?

A

Voltage across a membrane when cell is at rest

52
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What is action membrane potential?

A

Change in membrane voltage that opens ion channels and allows ions to flow across the membrane

53
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What are the facilitated diffusion transports?

A

Carriers
Channels

54
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What do carrier transports do?

A

bind the specific solute to be transported and undergo a series of conformational changes to transfer the bound solute across the membrane

55
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What do channel transports do?

A

acts like a pore in the membrane that lets water molecules or small ions through quickly

56
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What are examples of Primary Active Transport?

A

ATP driven pumps
Light driven pumps
Bulk Transport

57
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What is Secondary Active Transport?

A

Uses energy from ion movement going with the gradient to power the transport of ions against the gradient

58
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What are examples of bulk transport?

A

Endocytosis
- Phagocytosis
- Pinocytosis
Exocytosis

59
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What is endocytosis?

A

Bringing substances into the cell using vesicles

60
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What is phagocytosis?

A

“cell eating”

61
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What is pinocytosis?

A

“cell drinking”

62
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What is exocytosis?

A

Releasing substances using a vesicle

63
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What is clathrin?

A

Proteins involved in shaping vesicles and engulfments

64
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What are adaptins?

A

Molecules that secure the clathrin coat to the membrane and hold cargo receptors that bind to target molecules

65
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What is dynamin?

A

Molecules that pinch off the cell membrane into a vesicle

66
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What are lysosomes?

A

Vesicles full of digestive enzymes

67
Q

What terminus are signal sequences found on?

A

N-terminus

68
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How are improperly folded proteins disposed of?

A

They are retained in the ER by chaperone proteins and degraded

69
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What do vesicles shed to allow for membrane interaction?

A

Clathrin coat

70
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What are the transmembrane proteins?

A

SNAREs
Rab proteins
Tethering proteins

71
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Where do condensing vesicles go?

A

They remain in the cell

72
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Where do secretory vesicles go?

A

They are exocytosed

73
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What are the secretory pathways?

A

Constitutive
Regulated

74
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What is the constitutive secretory pathway?

A

Unregulated exocytosis

75
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What is the regulated secretory pathway?

A

Holds vesicles at the cell membrane then releases them all at once, such as the release of insulin

76
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What is a nuclear localization signal?

A

The mark on proteins that are selected for nucleus import

77
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How is a nuclear localization signal recognized?

A

cytosolic nuclear transport receptors that are attached to nuclear pore fibrils

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