Unit 2: Square Cap Flashcards
Which of the following components of cell membrane affects the selective permeability?
Phospholipids and Proteins
All the following are present in the biological membrane except
polysaccharides
Which of the following molecules will rapidly diffuse through phospholipid part of cell membrane?
Water and CO2
What factors affect the simple diffusion of molecules in aqueous surroundings?T
Temp
Which of the following will affect the fluidity of a cell membrane?
Sterols and Saturation levels of fatty acide side chains
Which of the following molecules will be able to cross a synthetic dialysis membrane with a pore size of 100 daltons (AMU) and not through biological membrane by simple diffusion?
NaCl
When freshwater plant cells are placed in sea water the cells will
get plasmolyzed with water from cytoplasm leaking out.
Which of the following affects all others in the cell communication process?
Signal reception
Phosphorylation of a series of proteins (“phosphorylation cascade”) during signal transduction
causes target proteins to change their shape and therefore their activity.
Which of the following molecules are the most essential for cell communication?
Proteins
Which of the following actions represents direct contact mechanism of cell signaling?
Gap junctions allowing small signal molecules to go through
Which of the following is/are the highly specific mechanism(s) of cell transport
Active transport, Receptor mediated endocytosis, Facilitated diffusion
Ion channel proteins are always
integral membrane proteins
Cellular respiration depends on the concentration of protons in the intermembrane space in the mitochondrion to make ATP. Which mechanisms provide the energy needed for concentrating protons in the intermembrane space
Redox potential of electrons going through the electron transport chain
Which of the following cells can perform phagocytosis?
White blood cells and Amoeba
Animal viruses infect specific host cells and do not cross host range. This is because viruses are recognized and allowed inside cells through
Receptor mediated endocytosis
Most of the antibiotics are derived from
Fungi
How does bacteria protect itself from viral infection
Restriction enzymes degrade the viral DNA once it enters the bacterial cell
Plants can defend against grazers by producing
secondary metabolites
Which of the following animal cells produce antibodies?
B cells
Vaccines protect the animals by
Helping to produce antibodies that will mark virus for degradation
The major differences in the function of rough ER compared to smooth ER is to
make proteins
When the pH was increased from 5 to 7 in an in vitro experiment, these structures purified from animal cells stopped digesting their contents. What are these structures?
lysosomes
Fresh water protists such as paramecium maintain homeostasis of its salt concentration by pumping water out of the cell. Which of the following structures would serve this purpose?
Contractile vacuole