Control and coordination' Flashcards
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How are messages sent from the receptor to the coordinating
centre, and then to the effector?
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Through nerve impulses and/or hormones!
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The nervous system and the endocrine system work together to
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monitor external/internal changes and coordinate responses
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two parts of nercous system
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1) Central Nervous System (CNS) → Brain & spinal cord
2) Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) → Neurones
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Messages travel via
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nerve impulses / action potentials
* Along neurones / nerve fibres
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Impulse is passed from neurones to
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target cells via a synapse
* Using neurotransmitters
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Endocrine glands
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- Secretory cells
- Releases secretions directly into blood
capillaries in the glands - Secretions: Hormones
- E.g. pituitary glands, thyroid, adrenal, ovary,
testes, pancreas
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endocrine gland
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Exocrine glands
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- Secretory cells
- Releases secretion into ducts/tubes
(not blood capillaries) - Secretions: Not hormones
- E.g. stomach, salivary glands, pancreas
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exocrine gland
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Hormones
* Secreted by
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endocrine glands
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Hormones can be
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globular proteins OR steroids
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protein hormone
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Insulin
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steroid hormone
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Testosterone
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characteristics of hormones
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nervous system and endocrine system both involve
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- Cell signalling
- Signal molecule binding to receptor
- Both involve chemicals
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Cell body of neurones
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- Has a nucleus and cytoplasm
- Cytoplasm: Many mitochondria, ribosomes, RER, Golgi
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Cytoplasmic processes
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- Thin, cytoplasmic extension of cell body
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Dendrites
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- Carry impulses towards the cell body
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- Axons
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- Carry impulses away from the cell body
- Some enclosed with myelin sheath
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Axon terminal / presynaptic knob
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- Many mitochondria, synaptic vesicles
containing neurotransmitters, voltage
gated Ca2+ channels
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presynaptic knob is part of a
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synapse
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synapse
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= junction between
neurones / muscles
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A synapse also includes:
* Synaptic cleft =
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gap
→ has enzymes to breakdown
neurotransmitters
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* Postsynaptic membrane
→ has receptor proteins for
neurotransmitters
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Myelin sheath
* Insulates axons of many neurones
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Myelin sheath function
Speeds up conduction of nerve impulses
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Myelin sheath made up of
Schwann cells
→ Has nucleus
→ Layers of cytoplasm and plasma membrane spirals around the axon
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Nodes of Ranvier
Between Schwann cells, no myelin
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3 types of neurones
1. Sensory neurone (afferent)
* Longer sensory axon / dendron
* Shorter axon
3. Motor neurone (efferent)
* Shorter dendrites
* Much longer axon
2. Intermediate / relay neurone
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* Pathway where impulses are carried
along during a
reflex action
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reflex arc example
knee jerk reflex, sneezing
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advantages of reflex arc
* Fast
* Automatic, involuntary, without
conscious thought
* Innate / instinctive, response is always
the same
* Protects from harm
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What are impulses?
→Brief changes to the distribution of electrical charge across
membrane (aka membrane potential)
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At rest:
more negatively charged on inside than outside
* Resting potential = -70mV
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When impulses are formed:
more positive on inside than outside
* Action potential / depolarization = +30mV
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roles of sensory receptor cells
1. Detect stimuli
2. Acts as transducers
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detect stimuli of sensory receptor cellls
* Receptors are specific to one-type
of stimulus
* e.g. chemical, light, heat, sound, pressure
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transducers of sensory receptor cells
* Converts stimulus energy to electrical energy
* Produce generator / receptor potential
→ Pass impulse along sensory neurone
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Chemicals act as a
stimulus
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Diff chemoreceptors are specific for diff
chemicals =
diff tastes
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salt (NaCl)
1. Na+ ions diffuse into cell via microvilli
→ Increase in positive charge inside cell
2. Membrane depolarized
→ Receptor / generator potential generated
3. Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels open
→Ca2+ enter cell
4. Trigger movement of vesicles
containing neurotransmitters
→ exocytosis occurs
→ neurotransmitter released
5. Neurotransmitter stimulate action
potential / impulse in sensory neurone
→ Send impulse to taste centre in brain
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resting potential =
-70mV
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At rest =
no stimuli, no impulses formed and transmitted
* Inside of axon more negatively charged than outside
* Neurone is polarized and maintained at -70mV
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How is a resting potential maintained?
1. Na+/K+ pump
* 3 Na+ pumped out, 2 K+ pumped in
* ATP needed
* Axon phospholipid bilayer impermeable to K+ / Na+
* Electrochemical gradient is set up = difference in both charge and chemical
ions across membrane
→ So K+ diffuse out, Na+ diffuse in
→ via channel proteins
2. More K+ channels open than Na+ channels
* Membrane more permeable to K+ than Na+
* More K+ leaves than Na+ enter
* Leaking K+ is responsible for resting potential
→Inside becomes relatively more negative than outside
P/S: these channel proteins are open all the time. But voltage-gated
K+ and Na+ channels are closed
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Depolarisation (-70 mV → +30mV)
1. Voltage-gated K+ channels remain closed
2. Voltage-gated Na+channels open
→ Channels change shape when membrane potential changes when action
potential arrives from previous section
*Na+ enter cell
*Membrane becomes less negative / depolarized →+30mV
→ Action potential is generated
* Size of action potentials is fixed at +30 mV
* The higher the strength/ intensity of the stimulus, the higher the
frequency of action potentials
* Also – the more neurones are depolarised
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Repolarisation (+30mV → -70mV)
1. Voltage-gated Na+ channels close
2. Voltage-gated K+ channels open
*K+move out of cell
*Inside becomes negative /repolarised → -70mV
Depolarisation spreads to next region due to movement
of +ve ions to -ve regions. A “local circuit” is set up.
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Hyperpolarisation / Refractory Period
(less than -70mV)
1. Voltage-gated Na+ channels remain closed
2. Voltage-gated K+channels close
*But slight delay so excess K+ions have moved out of axon
When membrane is hyperpolarized = refractory period
*Membrane is insensitive to any depolarisation
*No action potential can be generated
→ Function: ensure one-way transmission
* Due to the refractory period, action potentials are discrete events /
do not merge into one another
→ Function: Length of refractory period limits maximum frequency of
action potentials
* E.g. longer refractory period = lower maximum frequency
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Return to Resting Potential (-70mV)
*Na+/K+pump acts again
→ Membrane can be depolarized again
→ Action potential can be generated again
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How action potentials are transmitted
along a non-myelinated axon?
* Depolarisation spreads to next region due to movement of positive
ions to negative regions
→A “local circuit” is set up
→This causes voltage-gated Na+ channels to open in the next region
→Causing next action potential
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How action potentials are
transmitted along a myelinated axon?
But with the MYELIN SHEATH… there is an increased speed of conduction!
* Myelin insulates axon
→ Does not allow movement of ions
→ Lengthens local circuits
* Passage of ions only at nodes of Ranvier
→ Action potential / depolarization only at nodes of Ranvier
→Local circuit is set up between nodes
→Action potential ‘jumps’ from node to node
→This is called saltatory conduction
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Saltatory Conduction
Faster transmission because myelin sheath insulates axons
→Local circuit is set up between nodes
→Action potential ‘jumps’ from node to node
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Threshold Potential (-50mV)
* Minimum potential needed for action potential to be generated
→ Only depolarisation that reaches threshold produces an action potential
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If depolarisation <-50mV
action potential is not generated
→ only local depolarisation occurs
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Only if depolarisation >= -50mV,
action potential is generated
→ Size of action potential is fixed at +30mV
→ all-or-nothing law
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synapse=
junction between neurones
/ muscles
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* Presynaptic knob
→ Many mitochondria, synaptic vesicles
containing neurotransmitters, voltage
gated Ca2+ channels
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Synaptic cleft
= gap
→ has enzymes to breakdown
neurotransmitters
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Postsynaptic membrane
→ has receptor proteins for
neurotransmitter
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role of synapses
1. Ensure one-way transmission
2. Allow interconnection of nerve
pathways
3. Involved in memory and learning
4. Filter out low-level stimuli
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how do synaspses Ensure one-way transmission
* Receptors only on postsynaptic neurone
* Neurotransmitter vesicles only on
presynaptic neurone
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how do synapses allow interconnection of nerve apthways
* Nerve impulses can diverge / integrate
* Allow wider range of behaviour / action in
response to a stimulus
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how are synapses involved in memory and learning
* Due to new synapses being formed
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how do synapses Filter out low-level stimuli
* Weaker stimulus cause release of low
quantities of neurotransmitters
* No impulse generated in postsynaptic
neurone →brain
* Prevent brain from being overloaded with
sensory information
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The Cholinergic Synapse
Neurotransmitter = acetylcholine (ACh)
1. Action potential reaches presynaptic
membrane
2. Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels open
→ Presynaptic membrane becomes
more permeable to Ca2+
→ Ca2+ ions enter presynaptic neurone
3. Vesicles containing ACh move towards
and fuse with presynaptic membrane
→ Exocytosis occurs
→ ACh released into synaptic cleft
4. ACh diffuse across synaptic cleft
5. ACh binds with receptor proteins
on postsynaptic membrane
6. Receptor proteins change shape and
Na+ channels open
→ Na+ enter postsynaptic neurone
* Postsynaptic neurone depolarized
* Action potential is generated
* As long as ACh binds with receptors,
Na+ channels will stay open
→ Continuous transmission of action
potential
→ Can cause synaptic fatigue / paralysis
7. ACh breakdown by acetylcholinesterase at synaptic cleft
* ACh→ acetate & choline
* ACh is recycled (ATP needed)
* Depolarisation stops in
postsynaptic membrane
→ stop continuous action potential
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3 types of muscles
cardiac
skeletal
smooth
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2 types of striated muscle
cardiac and skeletal
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Striated Muscles
* Striated = striped under microscope
* Attached to bones by tendons
* Many long, cylindrical muscle fibres
→Multinucleated
→Each muscle fibre is made up of myofibrils
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Muscle fibres have
* Plasma membrane = sarcolemma
* Cytoplasm = sarcoplasm
* Specialised ER = sarcoplasmic reticulum
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muscle fibres have Plasma membrane = sarcolemma
→ sarcolemma infoldings = transverse
system tubules (T-tubules)
→ can conduct action potentials
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muscle fibres have Cytoplasm = sarcoplasm
→ Many parallel myofibrils
→ Fibres are multinucleated
→ Manymitochondria
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muscle fibres have Specialised ER = sarcoplasmic reticulum
→ have protein pumps
→ have a lot of Ca2+
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Two types of myofilaments:
* Thick filaments = made of myosin
* Thin filaments = made of actin
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* Thick filaments = made of myosin
→fibrous protein with globular
protein head
→ Attached to M line
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Thin filaments = made of actin
→chain of globular protein molecules
→ has binding site for myosin
→ troponin and tropomyosin is
attached to actin
→ Attached to Z line
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Sarcomere
Interdigitation of thick and thin filaments give striated appearance
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Myosin attached to
M line
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Actin attached to
Z line
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scaromere between
2 Z lines
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* Distance between Z line decreases
during muscle contraction
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I band
light band
* Only thin filaments
* Shortens during muscle contraction
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H band
light band at centre of dark
band
* Only thick filaments
* Shortens during muscle contraction
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A band =
dark band
* Overlap of thick and thin filaments
* Stays the same during muscle contract
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Muscle Contraction begins at
neuromuscular junction
→ Cholinergic synapse between a motor neurone and a muscle fibre
* Terminal knobs of motor neurone = motor end plate
* Neurotransmitter = acetylcholine (Ach)
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neuromuscular junction
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1. Cholinergic synapse of neuromuscular junction
* Action potential arrives the presynaptic membrane
* Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels open
* Ca2+ enter presynaptic knob
* Vesicles containing ACh fuse with presynaptic
membrane
* AChreleased by exocytosis into synaptic cleft
* ACh diffuses across synaptic cleft
* AChbind to receptors on sarcolemma
(muscle cell membrane)
* Na+ channel opens
* Na+ ions enter sarcoplasm of muscle cell
sarcolemma
* Sacrolemma depolarised
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2. Depolarisation and Ca2+
* Depolarisation spreads via T-tubules → sarcoplasmic reticulum (ER)
* Sarcoplasmic reticulum depolarized
* Voltage-gated Ca2+ channels open
* Ca2+ diffuse out from sarcoplasmic reticulum → sarcoplasm
* Ca2+ initiates muscle contraction
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When muscle is relaxed:
* Troponin = attached to tropomyosin
* Tropomyosin = blocks myosin-binding
site on actin
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When muscle contracts:
* Ca2+ in sarcoplasm bind to troponin
→ Troponin changes shape and moves tropomyosin
→ Exposes myosin-binding site on actin
→ Allows myosin head to attach and form cross-bridge with actin
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Sliding Filament Model
1) Myosin head with ADP and Pi form
cross-bridges with actin
→ Pi is released
2) Myosin head tilts and pulls actin
→ Power stroke moves actin towards M line
→ Myofibril / sarcomere shortens
→ ADP released from myosin head
3) ATP binds to myosin head
→ ATPase hydrolyses ATP into ADP and Pi
→ Myosin head lets go of actin
→ Myosin moves back to original position
4) Process repeated at site further along actin molecule
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Sarcomere shortens during
muscle contraction
* H band shortens
* I band shortens
* A band remains the same
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Muscle Relaxation
When action potential stimulation
stops….
* Ca2+ is actively pumped into
sarcoplasmic reticulum
→ Ca2+ do not bind to troponin on
actin filament
→ Tropomyosin moves to block
myosin-binding sites on actin
filament
→ Filaments slide back to original
position
→ Muscle relaxes
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Muscles uses a lot of
ATP
* Only small amount of ATP present in muscle
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More ATP is synthesized by….
1. Aerobic respiration in mitochondria
2. Lactate pathway in sarcoplasm
3. Creatine phosphate in sarcoplasm
* Immediate source of energy once ATP is used up
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Similarities between mammals and plants about electrical coomunication
* Have electrochemical gradients
* Plant cells have sodium-potassium pumps
* Have resting potential
* Membrane depolarises → action potentials
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differences between mammals and plants about electrical coomunication
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venus fly trap
1. Sensory hair cell is receptor and detects touch
* If 2 hairs are touched / 1 hair is touched twice within 35 seconds…
* Ca2+ ion channels open @ cells at base of hair
* Ca2+ flow in
* Cell membrane depolarised
→ Action potential occurs
* Depolarisation spreads over leaf / lobe
→ to midrib / hinge cells
2. Acid growth @ hinge cells
* H+ pumped out of cells into cell walls
* Cross-links in cell wall broken
* Calcium pectate of middle lamella dissolves
* Cell wall loosens
* Ca2+ enter hinge cells
* Water enters hinge cells by osmosis
* Cells expand / become turgid
* Lobes change from convex to concave
* Trap shuts quickly in 0.3s
* Elastic tension released
3. Further deflections of sensory hairs
* Trigger action potentials → seal trap
* Stimulate entry of Ca2+ into gland cells
* Ca2+ stimulate exocytosis of vesicles containing digestive enzymes
* Trap stays shut for up to 1w for digestion
4. After digestion, cells of upper surface of midrib grow slowly
* Leaf reopens and elastic tension builds in the cell walls of midrib
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Venus Fly Trap
Two adaptions to conserve energy and avoid closing unnecessarily:
1. Stimulation of single hair does not trigger closure
→ At least two hairs must be touched OR one hair touched twice
within 35 seconds
→ Prevent trap from closing when raining or when debris fall into trap
2. Gaps between stiff hairs allow very small insects to crawl out
→No energy wasted on digesting a very small meal
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Chemical Communication in Plants
* Plant hormones/plant growth regulators
* Produced in a variety of plant tissues
* Not in endocrine glands
* Plant hormones interact with receptors
inside/outside cell and initiate a signaling cascade
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Movement of plant hormones:
a) Directly from cell to cell
→By active transport or diffusion
b) Via phloem/xylem vessels
E.g. Auxins, gibberellins, abscisic acid
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Auxins (IAA) short
* Growth by cell elongation at tips of roots and shoots
* Inhibits lateral growth / branching– i.e. apical dominance
* Via acid growth hypothesis
* Group of several chemicals
* Main auxin = IAA (indole 3-acetic acid)
* Synthesized in growing tips of shoots & roots
→ Aka apical meristems where there is active mitosis
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2. Gibberellins (GA) short
* Seed germination
* Stem elongation
* Causes breakdown of DELLA proteins, which are inhibitors of cell growth
and seed germination
* Plant growth regulator / plant hormone
* Synthesized in young leaves, seeds & stems
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3. Abscisic acid (ABA) short
* Respond to water stress
* Stimulate closure of stomata
* Uses Ca2+ as second messenger
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Role of auxin
1. Stimulate cell elongation
2. Inhibits lateral growth / branching – i.e. apical dominance
→ Cause plants to grow taller towards light
P/S: Auxin not solely responsible for apical dominance
* There is interaction between auxin and other plant growth regulators
* Gibberellin enhances IAA
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Role of Auxin in Cell Elongation
The Acid Growth Hypothesis
1. Auxin binds to receptors in cell surface membrane
2. Stimulates proton pumps in cell surface membrane
* By active transport
* H+ from cytoplasm into cell wall
* Cell wall become more acidic
3. pH-dependent enzymes (expansins) activated to weaken cell wall
* By breaking H bonds between cellulose microfibrils
* Cell wall loosens → more elastic, can stretch
4. Ions enter cell and water potential of cell decreases
* Water enter cell by osmosis
* Increase in turgor pressure
* Cell wall expands
* Cause elongation of cell
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why is the acid growth hypothesis supported
Hypothesis supported bcs….
1. Cell elongation can be prevented by neutralising the acidity of cell
wall using a buffer
2. Can cause cell elongation by acids
3. Protons released from cells in response to auxin
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Uneven distribution of auxin can cause
stem / root to bend in
respond to stimuli
→ Higher concentration of auxin, more cell elongation
→ E.g. auxin causes shoots to bend towards sunlight
* Auxin inhibits lateral growth at
growing tips of shoots
→ The act of pruning removes auxin
→ Allows branching and produces bushier plants
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roles of GA
1. Seed germination
2. Stimulates cell division and cell elongation in stem
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Gibberellin enhances
IAA
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for seed germination to happen
* Seed is dormant / metabolically inactive
→DELLA proteins act as inhibitors of cell growth and seed germination
→Maintain seed dormancy
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1. Seed absorbs water by osmosis
→Water stimulates production of gibberellin by embryo
