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Ch. 3 - Cell Structure and Function Flashcards

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Define Cytology

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Study of the cell structure

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Define Organelles

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small organs with characteristic shapes that have specific functions within the cell

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What surrounds cells?

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a selectively permeable cell membrane or plasma membrane

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What is the cell membrane composed of?

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Phospholipid bilayer which helps contain the contents of the cell

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define cytosol

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  • The fluid that is found within cells

- also called intracellular fluid

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what is the Cytoplasm

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-This is the area within the cell making up the cytoplasm and organelles which don’t include the nucleus

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What are the components of cytosol?

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-Water (fluid solvent)
-ions nutrients, gasses, wastes, enzymes
(dissolved solutes)

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Define Extracellular fluid

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fluid found outside of the cell

  • interstitial fluid (found btw cells
  • Plasma - the liquid portion of the blood
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What is another name for the plasma membrane

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plasmalemma

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Describe the function of the cell membrane.

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  • maintains the shape of cells
  • separates the cytoplasm of the cell from the external environment
  • selectively permeable due to the ability to maintain a different internal composition
  • composed of lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates which are not in a fixed position
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Define fluid mosaic model

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describes the constantly changing form of cell membrane structure

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what can cross the cell membrane?

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-Non-polar or lipid-soluble substances

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What is the process permeable substances move across the bilayer of a cell?

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diffusion - substances can move down their concentration gradients

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What substances are not able to cross the cell membrane?

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  • polar or water-soluble substances

- charged ions

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how do polar or water-soluble substances get into a cell?

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  • Travel through channels in membrane proteins

- can also be transported into the cell by proteins against the concentration gradient

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What are the key organelles?

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  • Nucleus
  • Ribosomes
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum
  • Golgi Apparatus/complex
  • Mitochondria
  • Centrioles
  • cytoskeleton
  • Cilia and Flagella
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Describe the characteristics of the nucleus

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  • the control center for the cell
  • surrounded by the nuclear envelope (membrane)
  • contains genetic information in the form of DNA
  • DNA can be packed as Chromosomes when the cell is dividing
  • DNA is referred to as Chromatin when not dividing
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What are Nucleoli?

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Dark regions within the nucleus which are sites of ribosome formation

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What are genes?

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Specific regions on chromosomes that carry directions for making proteins

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What is Chromatin

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  • DNA that is found in the nucleus when the cell is not dividing
  • Thin and diffuse
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What are chromosomes?

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-When the nucleus is dividing, DNA becomes thick and rod-shaped packages

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Describe the characteristics of ribosomes

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  • composed of protein and ribosomal RNA
  • found in the nucleus, free-floating in the cytosol, or bound to a membrane inside the cell
  • site of protein synthesis
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Describe the characteristics of the Endoplasmic Reticulum

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  • composed of flattened sacs made of lipid bilayers
  • membrane network expands throughout the cytoplasm
  • Rough ER: has ribosomes attached and makes protein
  • Smooth ER: has no ribosomes attached, makes lipids, more membranes, detoxifies substances, or stores substances
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Describe the characteristics of the Golgi apparatus/complex

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  • membranous organelle
  • collects, packages, and distributes proteins make by rough ER
  • proteins can then be retained and used by the cell or shipped out of the cell
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Describe the characteristics of the mitochondria,
- very small and membranous - many in cells that require energy - site of aerobic cellular respiration - All enzymes must be present for cellular respiration to occur
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Define Cellular Respiration
cells generate energy in the form of ATP which is generated by breaking down glucose
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Define Cytoskeleton
a complex arrangement of filamentous proteins which plays a role in cell shape or cytoskeleton and internal movement
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What is an example of a cytoskeleton?
microtubules
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What are microtubules
Makes up a number of organelles including centrioles, cilia, and flagella
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Define Centrioles
paired and barrel-shaped organelles made up of microtubules
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What is the function of centrioles?
- assist in the formation of cilia and flagella | - involved in the assembly of microtubules to form the spindle apparatus
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What is the spindle apparatus?
required for the movement of chromosomes during cell division
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What are Flagella and cilia?
- made from microtubules and are anchored to cells - sperm cells have 1 flagellum, loner than cilia - cilia are found on the free surface of epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract
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List the functions of cells and what are the process called for those functions?
1. Protein synthesis - transcription - translation 2. Cell Division - mitosis - meiosis 3. Cellular Respiration - aerobic - anaerobic
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Define Protein synthesis
the formation of proteins using genetic information that is found in the sequence of DNA nucleotides that make up a gene
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What is Transcription
- the first step in protein synthesis - occurs in the nucleus - The DNA sequence of a gene is copied into a single strand of RNA - mRNA leaves the cell through the nuclear pore
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What is Translation
- the second step in protein synthesis - translates nucleic acids into the language understood by proteins - free ribosomes or ribosomes of rough ER mRNA + tRNA from peptide bonds between amino acids to form polypeptides following the directions from mRNA nucleotide sequence
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How do the Endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi Complex work together in a cell?
- ribosomes produce proteins - the proteins are transferred in a vesicle to the Golgi complex - the Golgi complex packages proteins and then transports them
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What is cell division
- cells divide to make more cells - all living things composed of tissue start off as a single-cell unit called the fertilized egg - There are 2 types of division mitosis and meiosis, mitosis is the main type of cell division
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What is mitosis
- 1 cell divides to produce 2 genetically identical daughter cells with the same DNA and chromosomes - key for the growth of bones in children, growth of hair, and repairing tissue
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What are stem cells?
cels that repair under mitosis such as hair follicles, skin, red bone marrow
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What is Meiosis
-occurs in gonads -produces gametes -gametes have 1/2 number of chromosomes and are each genetically unique gametes fuse the number of chromosomes is completed
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How does cell division work?
-Cells are not always dividing they have various stages called cell cycles
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What is a cell cycle
accounts for periods of cell division or when a cell is carrying out its specific function
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What is Cellular Respiration?
the process used by cells to convert food energy into usable energy in the body - called ATP - used for growth transport and chemical reactions - usually involves mitochondria
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what is the formula for Cellular Respiration?
glucose + oxygen ->Carbon Dioxide + Water | -ATP is formed
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What is ATP
-stores energy in high-energy phosphate bonds -energy is received by breaking bonds of glucose -energy fuels other reactions -There are 2 types of cellular respiration (anaerobic and aerobic)
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What is Anaerobic Cellular Respiration?
- doesn't require oxygen - produces lactic acid in muscles - 2 molecules of ATP are produced / glucose molecule
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What is aerobic Cellular Respiration?
- Requires oxygen | - 36 molecules of ATP / glucose are produced
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