Final Flashcards
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What must occur for a cell to operate effectively?
The different intracellular process must be separated from one another.
How do prokaryotes and eukaryotes isolate their chemical reactions?
Groups the enzymes needed for particular reactions into large, multicomponent complexes.
How do eukaryotes isolate their chemical reactions?
Isolate different metabolic processes to different membrane-enclosed compartments.
Protein sorting
The transfer process in which proteins are moved from where they are made, to the cytosol, to the compartment where they will be used.
What does protein sorting depend on?
Signals in the amino acid sequence of the proteins.
Vesicles
Small, membrane-enclosed saces
Vesicular transport
The process of vesicles pinching off from one compartment, moving through the cytosol, and fuse with another compartment.
Exocytosis
Released proteins from the cell.
Endocytosis
Bringing proteins into the cell.
How do the compartments differ in prokaryotes and eukaryotes?
Prokaryotes consist of a single compartment whereas eukaryotes are divided into internal membranes.
Nuclear envelope
The double membrane that surrounds the nucleus.
How does the nucleus communicate with cytosol?
Via nuclear pores in the envelope.
What is the outer membrane of the nucleus continuous with?
The membrane of the ER.
What does the ER synthesis?
New membranes
Rough ER
Ribosomes are attached to the cytosolic surface.
Lumen
The interior of the ER.
Smooth ER
Lacks ribosomes
What is the purpose of the smooth ER?
To make steroid hormones, detoxify molecules in liver cells, and takes up Ca2+ from the cytosol to produce responses to extracellular signals.
What is the purpose of the rough ER?
Makes proteins.
Cytosol function
Contain metabolic pathways, protein synthesis, and cytoskeleton.
Nucleus function
Contains main genome and DNA/RNA synthesis.
ER function
Synthesis of lipids and proteins to distribute to other organelles and the plasma membrane.
Golgi apparatus function
Modify, sort, and package proteins and lipids from the ER for secretion or delivery to another organelle.
Lysosomes function
Contain digestive enzymes for intracellular degradation of worn-out organelles, and other particles taken into the cell by endocytosis.