11.15 signal Transduction

Question 1

Hormones
Morphogens
Neurotransmitters
Signals that cells send out to (environment/other cells)

Answer 1

other cells

Question 2

Pheromones
Sex pheromones (mating between organisms of the same species)
Signals that cells send out to (environment/other cells)

Answer 2

environment

Question 3

1. Contact-dependent
2. Paracrine
3. Synaptic
4. Endocrine
   - development or immune response

Answer 3

contact dependent

Question 4

1. Contact-dependent
2. Paracrine
3. Synaptic
4. Endocrine
   - neighboring cells

Answer 4

paracrine

Question 5

specific target

1. Contact-dependent
2. Paracrine
3. Synaptic
4. Endocrine

Answer 5

synaptic

Question 6

1. Contact-dependent
2. Paracrine
3. Synaptic
4. Endocrine
   - whole organism, hormones

Answer 6

endocrine

Question 7

1. endocrine
2. synaptic
   - hormones are directly attached to target cell

Answer 7

synaptic

Question 8

which one has a membrane bound signal molecule

1. Contact-dependent
2. Paracrine
3. Synaptic
4. Endocrine

Answer 8

contact dependent

Question 9

What are the 4 signals a cell can give?

Answer 9

• survive
• divide
• differentiate
• die

Question 10

acetylcholine affect what body parts?

Answer 10

-heart, skeletal, salivary

Question 11

Signal molecules depends on what two things

Answer 11

size and polarity

Question 12

Acytel choline is mediated by what two things?

Answer 12

nitric oxide synthase

Question 13

what does acytel choline do to smooth muscle?

Answer 13

relaxes it

Question 14

Nitric oxide synthase is in what cells?

Answer 14

• macrophages
• endothelial cells
• nerve cells

Question 15

NO can signal independent of (cGMP/cAMP)

Answer 15

cGMP