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What is cytology?

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The scientific study of cells

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What is cell theory?

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All organisms are composed of cells, cells are the simplest unit of life, cells only come from preexisting cells, cells all have similarities

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What does a squamous cell look like?

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Thin, flat, and scaly

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What do cuboidal cells look like?

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Square

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What do columnar cells look like?

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Taller than wide

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What do stellate cells look like?

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Star-like

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What do fusiform cells look like?

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Thick in the middle, tapered toward ends (kinda like a diamond)

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3 basic components of a cell?

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Plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus

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What does the plasma membrane do?

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Define cell boundaries, govern interactions with cells, and control passage of materials in and out of the cell

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How is the cell membrane made?

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Phospholipids w/ hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails

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What else composes the cell membrane, besides phospholipids?

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Cholesterol, glycolipids, and membrane proteins

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What are peripheral proteins?

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Proteins that adhere to one face of the membrane but don’t penetrate it

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What do receptors do?

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Bind chemical signals

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What are second messenger systems?

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A first messenger binds to a surface receptor, triggering a change within cell to produce second messenger in cytoplasm

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What do enzymes do in the membrane?

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Catalyze reactions like digesting molecules and producing second messengers

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What are channel proteins?

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Proteins that allow hydrophilic solutes and water to pass through the membrane

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What do ligand-gated channel proteins respond to?

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Chemical messengers

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What do voltage-gated channel proteins respond to?

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Charge changes

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What do mechanically-gated channel proteins respond to?

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Physical stress on cell

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What are membrane protein carriers?

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A transmembrane protein which binds solutes and transfers them across the membrane

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What are cell-identity markers?

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Glycoproteins acting as ID tags to distinguish self from foreign

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What do cell-adhesion molecules do?

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Mechanically link cell to extracellular material or another cell

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What is the glycocalyx?

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Fuzzy coat external to plasma membrane. Unique in everybody but identical twins

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Functions of the glycocalyx?

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Protection, immunity to infection, defense against cancer, transplant compatibility, cell adhesion, fertilization, embryonic development

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What are microvilli?
Extensions of the membrane which increase a cell's surface area
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What are cilia?
Hairlike processes which monitor nearby conditions
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What do motile cilia do?
They sweep material across a surface in one direction, specifically they mostly move mucus or dust
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What is cystic fibrosis?
A recessive disease where cells can't create the saline layer for mucus to float on top of, so tracts get plugged
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What is the only flagellum in humans?
The tail of a sperm cell
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What membrane transportation mechanisms do not require ATP?
Filtration, diffusion, osmosis
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Which membrane transportation mechanisms require ATP?
Active transport and vesicular transport
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What are carrier-mediated mechanisms?
Using a membrane protein to transport a substance across a membrane
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What is filtration?
Particles are driven through membrane by physical pressure
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What is simple diffusion?
Net movement of particles from place of high concentration to place of lower concentration
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What factors affect simple diffusion rates?
Temperature, molecular weight, steepness of gradient, membrane surface area, membrane permeability
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What is osmosis?
Net flow of water through a selectively permeable membrane
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What are aquaporins?
Channel proteins specialized for water passage for osmosis, speeds up process
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What is osmolarity?
The concentration of a solution, # of solutes per liter
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What is tonicity?
Ability of a surrounding solution to affect fluid volume and pressure in a cell
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What is a hypotonic solution?
The cell absorbs water and swells, ECF has lower concentration of nonpermeating solutes
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What is a hypertonic solution?
Cell loses water and shrivels, ECF has higher concentration of nonpermeating solutes
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What is an isotonic solution?
Causes no change in cell volume, concentrations of nonpermeating solutes in and outside cell are the same
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What does it mean for carrier-mediated transport to be saturated?
All carriers are occupied
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What are the types of carriers for transport?
Uniport, symport, and antiport
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How do uniports move solutes?
It carries only one type
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How do symports move solutes?
It carries 2 or more solutes simultaneously in the same direction
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How do antiports move solutes?
It carries 2 or more solutes simultaneously in opposite directions
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What are the methods of carrier-mediated transport?
Facilitated diffusion, primary active transport, and secondary active transport
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What is facilitated diffusion?
A method of carrier-mediated transport which moves a solute down its' gradient. Does not use ATP
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What is primary active transport?
A method of carrier-mediated transport which moves solute through a membrane up the gradient. Uses ATP
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What is the sodium-potassium pump?
A pump that consumes one ATP to exchange 3 Na+ out for two K+ in, necessary because they constantly leak
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What does the sodium-potassium pump do?
Maintains steep gradient for transport, regulates solute concentration, maintains membrane potential, produces heat
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What is secondary active transport?
Carrier moves solute through membrane but only uses ATP indirectly
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What is vesicular transport?
Moves large particles, fluid droplets, or numerous molecules at once through the membrane in bubble-like enclosures called vesicles
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What is endocytosis?
Vesicular processes that bring material into cell
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What is phagocytosis?
A form of endocytosis, "cell-eating", engulfing large particles
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What is pinocytosis?
A form of endocytosis, "cell drinking", taking in droplets of ECF containing molecules useful in the cell
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What is receptor-mediated endocytosis?
Particles bind to specific receptors on plasma membrane
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What is transcytosis?
Transport of material across the cell by capturing it on one side and releasing it on the other
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What is exocytosis?
Secreting material, replacing plasma membrane removed by endocytosis
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What is the cytoskeleton?
A network of protein filaments and cylinders that determines cell shape, supports structure, organizes cell contents, directs movement of materials within cell, contributes to movement of the cell as a whole.
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What is the cytoskeleton composed of?
Microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules
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What do microfilaments do?
Form terminal web
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What do intermediate filaments do?
Give cell shape, resist stress
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What do microtubules do?
Maintain cell shape, hold organelles, act as railroad tracks for walking motor proteins, make axonemes of cilia and flagella, form mitotic spindle
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What are the membranous organelles?
Nucleus, mitrochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes, endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi complex
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What are the nonmembranous organelles?
Ribosomes, centrosomes, centrioles, basal bodies
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What does the nucleus do?
Genetic control center, direct protein synthesis, shelter DNA
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What does the nuclear envelope do?
Protect the nucleus, regulate molecular traffic through
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What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
System of channels (cisternae) enclosed by membrane
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What does rough ER do?
Synthesizes proteins
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What does smooth ER do?
Synthesizes steroids and other lipids
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What do ribosomes do?
Read genetic messages from mRNA and assemble amino acids into the specified proteins. Protein synthesis
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What does the Golgi complex do?
Synthesizes carbohydrates and finishes protein synthesis
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What do lysosomes do?
Hydrolytic digestion, autophagy (digests cell's extra organelles), and autolysis (digests entire extra cell)
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What are ribosomes made of?
Granules of protein and RNA
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What are lysosomes made of?
Package of enzymes bound by a membrane
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What do peroxisomes do?
Use molecular oxygen to oxidize organic molecules. Neutralize free radicals, detoxify drugs
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What do mitochondria do?
Synthesize ATP
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What do centrioles do?
Form basal bodies of cilia and flagella, which anchor them to cell membrane

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