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1
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Ratio between the size of an image produced by a microscope and it’s actual size

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Magnification

2
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Ability to observe two adjacent objects as distinct from one a other

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Resolution

Shorter wavelength of light provides greater resolution

3
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The two groups of microscopes based on source of illumination

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Light microscope (resolution 200 nm)

Electron (resolution 2nm)

4
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Two locations ribosomes carry out protein synthesis

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Rough er and cytosol

Free ribosomes- in cytoplasm for the proteins used in the cytoplasm

Bound ribosomes- rough er, membrane proteins are made here

5
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Small and large components made in the nucleus. Come out _________

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Separately

6
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ER is an extension of the ________

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Nuclear envelope

7
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What are the folds called on both ER?

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Cisterne

8
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What does the endomembrane system include ?

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  • nuclear envelope
  • endoplasmic reticulum
  • golgi apparatus
  • lysosomes
  • vacuoles
  • plasma membrane
9
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Functions of smooth er?

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  • synthesis liquids
  • metabolize carbohydrates
  • store calcium
  • detoxify drugs and poisons
10
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Functions of the rough er

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Has bound ribosomes

  • produces protein membranes which at distributed by transport vesicles (secretory proteins/most glycoproteins)
  • membrane factory for cell
11
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What is the membrane factory for the cell?

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Rough er

12
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The golgi Consists of flattened membranous sacs called __________
What are the two faces called?

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Cisternae

Cis face (forming) 
Trans face (maturing)
13
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Most subcellular structures, or organelles are too small to be seen by a light microscope. True or false?

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True

14
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A type of light microscope that allows living cells to examined in their natural state?
I’m transparent specimens

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Phase contrast microscopes

15
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Electron microscopes use __________ rather than glass lenses to focus the beam

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Electromagnets

16
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The two most common types of electron microscopes

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Transmission TEM- focuses electrons through a specimen
Used to mainly to study internal surface of cells***

Scanning SEM-focuses a beam of electrons into the SURFACE of a specimen for images that look 3D

17
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What is cell theory?

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  • all living organisms are composed of one or more cells
  • cells are the smallest units of life
  • new cells come only from pre-existing cells by cell division
  • cell structure is correlated to cellular function
18
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Basic features of ALL cells

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  • plasma membrane
  • cytoplasm/cytosol
  • chromosomes
  • ribosomes
19
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Characteristics of prokaryotes

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  • Lack nucleus
  • lack various internal structures bound with phospholipid membranes
  • small
  • simple structures
  • composed of bacteria and archaea
20
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Eukaryotes

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  • true nucleus
  • internal membrane-bound organelles
  • larger
  • more complex structures
  • composed of algae, Protozoa, fungi, and animals, and plants
21
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In the nucleotide region majority of prokaryotes have ____ circular chromosome
And eukaryotes it’s linear and has ____ copies

23 pairs
46 total

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1,2

22
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In prokaryotes the DNA is in the….

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Nucleoid region

23
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Bacteria cell walls are made of ____________

Archaea cell walls are made of ____________

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Peptidoglycan

Pseudomurein

24
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Basic features if bacterial cells

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  • plasma membrane
  • cytoplasm/cytosol
  • nucleoid
  • ribosomes
25
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Ribosomes are not organelles because they lack a __________

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Membrane

26
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Where are ribosomes made?

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In the nucleolus

27
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What is beneath the nuclear envelope?

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Nuclear lamina- gives it shape

28
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Describe the nuclear envelope

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Double membrane/ 2 phospholipid bilayers on top of each other

29
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What are lysosomes

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Membranous sac of hydrolysis enzymes/ uses water to break down stuff

Lysomal enzymes are made by the er

30
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Phagocytosis

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When lysosomes break down something from outside the cell

31
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Autophagy

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When lysomes break down something within the cell

32
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Where are vacuoles derived from?

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The golgi of ER

Found in both animal and plant cells

33
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Oxidative organelles in both plants and animals

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Peroxisomes

34
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A stack of thylakoids in chloroplast is called

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Granum

35
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Which cellular structure is common to all three domains of life?

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Phospholipid bilayer cell membrane

36
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The structures of chloroplast

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Outer membrane
Inner membrane
Taylakoids, membranous sacs (a stack is called granum)
Stroma, the internal fluid

37
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Mitochondria and chloroplast have similarities with ________

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Bacteria

Envelopes by a double membrane
Contain free ribosomes and circular DNA
Grows and reproduces somewhat independently in cells

38
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Enzymes responsible for biosynthesis of membrane lipids are located in what part of an animal cell?

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Smooth ER

39
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What is the order of exocytosis or secretion pathway?

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Rough ER, transport vesicle, golgi, transport vesicle, plasma membrane

40
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Specialized metabolic compartments binded by a SINGLE membrane

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Peroxisome

41
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Toxic molecules broken down

  • general function to catalyze certain reactions that break down molecules by removing hydrogen or adding oxygen
  • by product of reaction is H2O2
  • catalase breaks down H2O2 into water and oxygen
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Peroxisomes: oxidation

42
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The cytoskeleton is _________ the plasma membrane

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Beneath

43
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Network of fibers extending throughout the cytoplasm

Organizes cell’s structure and activities, anchoring many organelles

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Cytoskeleton

44
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What is the cytoskeleton composed of?

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Mircotubules
Mircofiliments
Intermediate filaments

45
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Component of the cytoskeleton that is involved with cell division

Dynamic

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Mircotubule

46
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Component of the cytoskeleton Made of actin, smallest diameter

Dynamic

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Microfilment

47
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Component of the cytoskeleton, medium size, nucleus it’s shape.

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Intermediate filaments

48
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  • Hollow rods about 25nm in diameter and about 200 nm to 25 microns long
  • function is shaping cell, guide movement of organelles, separating chromosomes during cell division
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Microtubules

49
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What is a pair of centrosomes called?

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Centrozome

50
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In many cells, mircotubules grow out from a ___________ near the nucleus

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Centrosome

51
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  • “Microtubule-organizing center”

- cell centrioles (a pair In animal cells), 9 triplets of microtubules arranged in a ring

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Centrosomes

52
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Do plants have centrosomes

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No

53
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What is cilla and flagella made of?

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Microtubules

54
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The base of cilla and flagella looks like a ___________

Basil body and Dynein

9 doubles, 2 in the middle

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Centriole

55
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  • Double chain of actin subunits
  • forms a 3D network just inside the plasma membrane to help support the cells shape and provide strength
  • intercellular movement
  • cell movement
  • cytokinesis
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Microfilaments (actin filaments)

56
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Microfilments that function in cellular motility contain the protein ________ in addition to actin ________

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Myosin, actin

57
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What drives amoeboid movement?

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Microfiliments by actin and myosin

58
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A circular flow of cytoplasm within cells that occurs in plants
Movement from actin - myosin

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Cytoplasmic steaming

59
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Support cell shape and fix organelles in place
More permanent cytoskeleton fixtures than the other two classes

Beneath the envelope

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Intermediate fibers

60
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Protects the plant cell, maintains its shape, and prevents excess uptake of water.
Cellular fibers embedded in other polysaccharides and protein

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Cell walls of plants

61
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Openings in cell walls, channels that perforate plant cell walls
-water and small solutes (and sometimes proteins and RNA) can pass from cell to cell

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Plasmodesmata

62
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Layers of plant cell walls

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Primary cell wall- relatively thin and flexible
Middle lamella-think layer between primary walls of adjacent cells (holds them together)
Secondary cell wall- only in some cells, added between the plasma membrane and the primary wall

63
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Animal cells lack cell walls but are covered by an elaborate _______________

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Extracellular matrix (ECM)

64
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The ECM is made of up of …..

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Glycoproteins and other macromolecule

65
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Functions of the ECM

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  • support
  • adhesion
  • movement
  • regulation
66
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  • membranes of neighboring cells are pressed together, preventing leakage of extracellular fluid
  • held together along the entire space
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Tight junctions

67
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  • (Anchoring junctions), fasten cell’s together into strong sheets
  • held just in one spot
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Desmosomes

68
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(Communicating junctions) provide cytoplasmic channels between adjacent cells

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Gap junction