The Amazing Cell Flashcards
Actin
Contractile muscle (in your heart and lungs) develop more when a sprinter, twitcher, ect.
Works with myosin
Used for cell division
Cytoskeleton
Made of microtubulars
Multi nucleated
Muscle cells, mitochondria
Purpose of a cell?
Produce protein
Mitochondria
Produces 95% of energy comes from here
Power house
Where ATP is produced
Where does the Kreb Cycle take place?
Mitochondria
What happens when there is a high demand of mitochondria?
Mitochondria will reproduce itself through pinching off from itself
Are ribosomes located in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells?
Both
Where is the endoplasmic riticulum located?
Connected to nucleus
Characteristics of endoplasmic riticulum…
Continuous channel Provides more surface area 30 times larger than plasma membrane Eliminate drugs Home of ribosomes
What does smooth ER aid in?
Making of lipids
What is the Golgi apparatus involved with?
Getting protein where it needs to go
What are vesicles?
Little containers
Lysosomes..
Engulf bad materials and break it down
Packing receiving
Peroxisomes…
Detoxer!
Have materials to take toxins and bring it down to water