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True or False: The contractile vacuole of the paramecium is possibly an evolutionary precursor of the kidney.

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True

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True or False: A cancer cell will be anchorage-dependent for growth and immortal.

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False

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Comparing a single-celled eukaryotic organism with a multicellular organism such as yourself identify the major difference

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DIVISION OF LABOR

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True or False: A cell that is anchorage-dependent for growth will also exhibit contact inhibition.

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True

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Write a few sentences that explain what limits an individual cell from becoming more complex.

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Limited number of biomolecular machines

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Compared to bacteria which of the cell types below are not responsible for finding food.

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LYMPHOCYTE, MACROPHAGE, FIBROBLAST

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In Cell Biology, what can limit the progress of science?

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Technology

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The paramecium discussed in class contained an organelle called the contractile vacuole. This is the presumed precursor of the:

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KIDNEY

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True or False: A normal cell is anchorage-dependent for growth and mortal.

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True

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What limits the paramecium from acquiring more complex functions?

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Limited number of biomolecular machines

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A single celled eukaryotic organism:

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Has a limited number of biomolecular machines; must find food, shelter, a mate, and reproduce, escape from predators

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True or False: In your own multicellular body, different cells in the body have a division of labor between them

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True

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True or False: In your own multicellular body, cells with different functions have different DNA.

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False

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A cell that is itself an organism must have a minimum of four needs.

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Find food, shelter, a mate, and the need to reproduce

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True or False: The paramecium swims by way of using a flagella.

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False

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True or False: When cancer cells are crowded by surrounding cells, the cancer cells become spherical and they can still go through cell division.

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True

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True or False: In an extant prokaryotic cell, the outer boundary of life is the capsule.

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False

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True or False: Fluorescence microscopy is a form of light microscopy.

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True

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True or False: Loss of the cell wall was required for the endomembrane system theory.

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True

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Why is it important to know the limitations of technology?

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You can’t advance without knowing what the limitations are

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After a cell is pancake shaped in a cell culture dish, the order of events that occurs as a cell walks is:

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Filapodia, liamellipodia, cell muscle, retraction fiber

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True or False: The ancient earth did not contain much oxygen

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True

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The association of ribosomes with _ invaginations would support the _ theory

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Membrane, endomembrane

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True or False: Ribosomes bound to some of the membrane invaginations in the endomembrane theory.

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True

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True or False: It is presumed that the peroxisomes evolved in these primitive, proto-eukaryotes to remove oxygen, which was toxic to the primitive cells.
True
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True or False: The presumed first step in the transition of the primitive, proto-prokaryotic cell into the primitive, proto-eukaryotic cell was the loss of the cell wall.
True
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Motility improved the fitness of these early cells because:
It allowed them to move away from predators and towards food
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True or False: Loss of the cell wall is required for the endosymbiotic theory.
True
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A normal is _ and _ for growth.
Mortal, anchorage-dependent
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What limits how big a cell can be.
The surface area to volume ration
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True or False: The cytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
True
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True or False: DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular.
True
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True or False: The cytoskeleton enabled the primitive cell to become motile.
True
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True or False: DNA in extant prokaryotic cells is circular.
True
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List one limitation of the cell culture technique.
Not all cells can grow in a culture
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Actin filaments are present in the cell's _ and the microtubules are present in the cell's _
Cell Cortex; Cell Interior
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True or False: Heterochromatin does not exist in interphase nuclei
False
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True or False: The diameter of intermediate filament is 25 nm
False
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True or False: To get into the nucleus a component has to have the correct signal sequence and pass through a nuclear pore
True
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True or False: Chromosomes are made out of Euchromatin
False
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True or False: Molecular motors use ATP as the energy source to power the molecular motors
True
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True or False: The actin filament system is present in the nucleus
False
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Which cyto skeletal filament system lines the inside of the nucleus to protect it?
Intermediate filament system
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Molecular motors run on which two cytoskeletal filament systems?
Actin and microtubular
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What does the nucleosomoal core have in it?
8 histones (two H2A, two H2B, two H3, two H4)
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Where is the histone H1 found
The nucleosomal core, acting like a staple
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True or False: Naked DNA does not exist in Nature but scientists can make naked DNA in a test tube.
True
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True or False: The actin filament system extends outside of the cell.
False
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True or False: Naked DNA does not exist in Nature but scientists can make naked DNA in a test tube.
True
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For a protein to enter the endoplasmic reticulum as part of the endoplasmic reticulum's lumen or part of the endoplasmic reticulum's membrane:
A ribosome binds to the mRNA and a short stretch of protein is synthesized that contains a signal sequence
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Explain the evolutionary origin of mitochondria.
Anaerobic eukaryotic engulfed an aerobic alpha-proteobacterium which then became an endosymbiont providing ATP from respiration while receiving substrates and protection
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Explain how the vesicles are carried from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane:
Proteins are synthesized by ribosomes and enter the rough ER; Vesicles bud off from the rER and carry proteins to the Golgi apparatus; The golgi apparatus modifies proteins; the vesicles bud off from the Golgi and carry modified proteins to the plasma membrane
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The plasma membrane gets new lipids from: a) the lumen of the ER b) the lumen of the golgi apparatus c) making new lipids at the plasma membrane d) the nucleus e) none of the above
None of the above
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Active transport uses ATP to move components in parallel with their concentration gradient, that is: from a high concentration to a low concentration.
False
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Explain how the vesicles are carried from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane:
The cells secreting the proteins on demand are stored in the secretory vesicles. These vesicles are formed in the trans Golgi apparatus, then released into the exterior by exocytosis in response to the extracellular signal.
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What are the two functions of a membrane?
regulating which molecules go in and out of the cell; Separating incompatible processes occurring within organelles
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True or False: Active transport uses ATP to move components in parallel with their concentration gradient, that is: from a high concentration to a low concentration.
False
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What are the orphaned organelles orphaned from?
The endomembrane system.
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The ER is contiguous with the Golgi apparatus.
False
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True or False: The ER is contiguous with the nuclear envelope.
True
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What is the difference between a triglyceride and a phospholipid?
Triglyceride has 3 fatty acids attached to the glycerol while phospholipids have two fatty acids
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True or False: The ER is contiguous with the Golgi apparatus.
False
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Cholosterol is _ to have in biological membranes
good
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A single pass trans-membrane protein that is an alpha helix can make a channel.
False
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Explain the evolutionary origin of the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and vesicles.
ER consists of a network of membranous tubules and falttened sacs. The discs and tubules of the ER are hollow, and the space inside is called the lumen.
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It is a simple matter (thermodynamically favorable) for a vesicle to form from the endoplasmic reticulum
False
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What is the difference between a single-pass transmembrane protein and a 7-pass transmembrane protein?
A single-pass transmembrane protein does not contain a channel while a 7-pass transmembrane does.
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True or False: A single pass trans-membrane protein that is an alpha helix can make a channel.
False
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True or False: It is a simple matter (thermodynamically favorable) for a vesicle to form from the endoplasmic reticulum
False
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There are two types of receptors. One type of receptor binds to polar (hydrophilic) ligands and this is the receptor located in the
PLASMA MEMBRANE
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For a cell to respond to a ligand released from a cell and uses the circulatory system to get to the responding cell it is called _ communication
ENDOCRINE
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Two types of second messengers discussed in lecture can exist downstream of a plasma membrane receptor. These are _ and _
Polar and Nonpolar
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There are two basic forms of cytoplasmic signaling (i.e. signal transduction). One uses _ and the other uses _
Calcium signal; Protein Kinases
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There is communication between cells and communication _ cells
Within
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The other point where MAPK can become active is _ of the cell cycle
M Phase
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When insulin binds to a receptor, this signal first uses
Kinases
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When a cell "talks to itself" it is called _ communication
AUTOCRINE
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For a cell to respond to a ligand released from a neighboring cell where the ligand diffuses directly from one cell to another is called _ communication
PARACRINE
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There are two basic types of communication within cells. One type is called _ signaling and it takes days to weeks to occur. The other type is called _ communication and it take minutes to hours to act
NUCLEAR; CYTOPLASMIC
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MAPK has two different functions depending on where this kinase acts in the _. If the kinase becomes active during interphase the cell is triggered to progress through the _
CELL CYCLE, CELL CYCLE
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MAPK has two different functions depending on where this kinase acts in the _. If the kinase becomes active during interphase the cell is triggered to progress through the _
CELL CYCLE, CELL CYCLE
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The _ begins to be destroyed at the metaphase of the cell cycle causing the chromosomes to begin to _
NUCLEAR MEMBRANE; MOVE TO THE EQUATOR OF THE CELL
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Many chemotherapy drugs act by arresting the cell in M-phase of the cell cycle.
True
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True or False: Many chemotherapy drugs act by arresting the cell in M-phase of the cell cycle.
True
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True or False: In the time span of 10 years every cell in your adult body goes through the cell cycle.
False
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Cancer can be described as a loss of cell cycle regulation.
True
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True or False: Cancer can be described as a loss of cell cycle regulation.
True
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True or False: After DNA synthesis (i.e., S-phase) an identical copy of the DNA has been made and this is present in the two chromatids when viewed as the chromosome.
True
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True or False: Cytoplasmic signal transduction controls the checkpoints of the cell cycle.
True
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Cytokinesis in plant and animal cells takes two forms. List them here.
CLEAVAGE FURROW, CELL PLATE
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At these checkpoints, a cyclin works with a cyclin-dependent kinase (i.e., Cdk) to regulate the checkpoint.
True
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True or False: At these checkpoints, a cyclin works with a cyclin-dependent kinase (i.e., Cdk) to regulate the checkpoint.
True
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True or False: During mitosis, the cytoplasm of the cell is “settled down”.
True
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True or False: The synthesis/presence of cyclin is what turns on the Cdk as the Cdk is always present but it is the cyclin that is synthesized and degraded in cycles.
True
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True or False: In your body not all cells go through the cell cycle
True
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True or False: Gap1 of the cell cycle represents the time when the cell is doing what it is supposed to do as part of its cell type. In other words, that is when a liver cell is doing its function as a liver cell.
True

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