Unit 1Botany Flashcards
What is the monomer for carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides
- glucose
- fructose
- galactose
What are the four macromolecules?
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nuclei acids.
What do monosaccharides combine to create?
Disaccharides,
- sucrose
- lactose
What do SEVERAL monosaccharides combine to create?
Polysaccharides
- starches
- cellulose
What does cellulose do?
Used to give structure to plants, main thing in plant cell walls, helps animals clean their bowels.
What are starches?
The form that plants store glucose in. Short term storage.
What are the two primary functions of carbohydrates?
Short term energy storage and support/strength.
What are the monomers of lipids?
Fatty acid and glycerol.
What are fats?
Solid lipids, used for long term energy storage.
What are oils?
Liquid lipids, used by plants to repel insects.
What are waxes?
Lipids with long fatty acids joined to an alcohol.
Solid at room temperature.
Found on surface of plant leaves/stems, embedded in the cutin (surface covering) or suberin (cell walls)
What are steroids?
Liquid lipids, repel animals from eating plants.
What are phospholipids?
2 fatty acids attached to a glycerol and a phosphate group.
Hydrophobic tail, hydrophilic head.
Makes up the phospholipid bilayer.
What is the monomer of protein?
Amino acids
How many amino acids are there?
20 amino acids
How many amino acids does your body produce, and how many do you get from food?
Body produces 12, you receive 8 from foods.
What is the polymer of proteins?
Polypeptides, made up of long chains of amino acids.
What do storage proteins do?
Store other proteins or carbohydrates inside for later use. Ex:bean, seed.
What are enzymes?
Proteins that catalyze reactions. Very important.
What are transport proteins and where are they found?
Found in the cell membrane, helps large molecules travel back and forth across cell membrane.
What is the monomer of nucleic acids?
Nucleotides.
What two types of nucleic acids are there?
DNA and RNA
Who is Robert Hook?
Named a cell a cell, looked at cork under a microscope.
Who is Anton Von Leeuwenhook?
A Dutch lenses maker, found single cell molecules (protist) and named them animolecules.
Who is Robert Brown?
Named the nucleus.
What did Schlieden and Schwann do?
Both credited with the cell theory. Did not work together though, they just published the same stuff separately.
What is the cell theory?
1) All organisms are composed of at least one cell.
2) Cells are the simplest unit of structure and function in an organism.
Who is Rudolph Virchow, and what idea did he refute?
Discovered every cell comes from a pre-existing cell, it is incorporated as the third part of the cell theory.
This idea refutes spontaneous generation.
What is the cell wall composed of?
- Cellulose (15-20% of cells weight)
- microfibils, cellulose molecules grouped together into bundles, which are held together by pectin.
Middle Lamella
Area between cells made of pectin.
Primary cell wall
Flexible cell wall, first to form. Laid down on each side of middle lamella. Consist of network of cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, and glycoproteins.
Secondary cell walls
Cells usually die shortly after completion, forms inside primary wall and is rigid, does not expand. Contains lignin and other sugars.
Plasmodesmata
Tiny cytoplasm strands that stretch between cells (with an endoplasmic reticulum strand)
Allows movement of big stuff between cells, important for cell communication.
What is cytoplasm made up of?
96% CHON,
What is the nucleoli?
Ribosome producing bodies.
What fills the inside of the nucleus?
Nucleoplasm
What is around the nucleus?
Nuclear envelope
What is chromatin and what does it become during mitosis?
Chromatin is DNA when it’s all free and noodle-y, becomes chromatid/chromosomes when it condenses for mitosis.
What is a proplastid?
Beginning stage of a plastid, eventually grows and differentiates into chromoplast/leucoplast/chromoplast
What is inside the chloroplast?
Stacks of thylakoids, called grana, that perform photosynthesis.
What do chromoplast do?
Create different bright colors (red/yellow/orange) to attract creatures to the seeds.
What produces the color in the chromoplast?
Carotenoids.
What are the two kinds of leucoplast and what do they do?
Amyloplasts- stores starch
Elaioplast- stores oils.
What two fibers make up the cytoskeleton?
Microtubules and microfilaments.
What are microtubules and what do they do?
Hollow protein tubes made of tubulin.
Used for vesicle transport, component of mitotic spindle, controls addition of cellulose to cell wall, and mobility of flagella/cilia.
What are microfilaments and what do they do?
Long protein threads that are grouped into bundles. Used to make the cell move when using ameboid movement.
What does the rough er do?
Creates proteins with it’s ribosomes, secretion and storage of proteins.