Module 02: Cells and Tissues Flashcards
These are delineated as the smallest denominator of biotic organisms.
Cells
What are the basic tenets or postulates of the modern cell theory by Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann?
(1) All cells are generated from preexisting cells.
(2) All cells have comparable biomolecules and biochemical reactions.
(3) All cells are constituted of a genetic material that is conveyed from one to another.
This organelle is a thin selectively permeable barrier that surrounds the interior surface of the cell; thus, delimiting it from the external environment. It is comprised of water-soluble molecules, such extrinsic and intrinsic proteins, nucleic acids, and fatty-acid-based lipids (phospholipids and sterols).
Plasma membrane
This organelle is also known as the nonnuclear content of the protoplasm, is delineated as the semifluid substance of a cell that is external to the nuclear membrane and internal to the cellular membrane.
Cytoplasm
This organelle is a membrane-enclosed organelle enveloped by a double-membrane known as the nuclear envelope. Moreover, it enacts a salient role in controlling and regulating cellular mechanisms along with conveying genetic materials that contain hereditary information.
Nucleus
This is constituted and underlies the interstitial fluids, blood plasma, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Moreover, this denotes the fluid that envelopes the exterior surface of cells. Apart from that, the volume of this is determined by the balance between sodium intake and renal excretion of sodium.
Extracellular Fluid
This extracellular fluid is the fluid between your tissues.
Interstitial Fluid
This extracellular fluid is the fluid that runs in your brain and your spine which allows lubrication and nutrient transport.
Cerebrospinal Fluid
These pertain to the substances that aid in digestion (gastric fluids) or act as lubricants (saliva).
Cellular Secretions
This is explicated as the most abundant material, jellylike substance composed of proteins and polysaccharides. Moreover, it is also an intricate network composed of an array of multidomain macromolecules organized in a cell/tissue-specific manner.
Extracellular matrix
This constituent of the plasma membrane generates the fabric of the membrane (phospholipid + cholesterol).
Membrane Lipids
This constituent of the plasma membrane compels the membrane to communicate with its environment, responsible for specialized membrane function.
Membrane Proteins
This constituent of the plasma membrane underlines glycoproteins and glycolipids. Glycocalyx (carbohydrate rich area) provides identity molecules for specific biologicals markers.
Membrane Carbohydrates
This constituent of the plasma membrane prods neighboring cells to adhere and to communicate, inhibit or aid in allowing movement of molecules between cells.
Cell Junctions
This generates the fundamental structure of the membrane. It is constituted of the hydrophobic tails that impede water-solute substances from permeating by engendering a boundary.
Phospholipids
The integral intent of this is to deliberately stiffen the membrane and decrease its water solubility to resolutely backup its structure.
Cholesterol
This is delineated as the primary determinant of the role of the membrane. One of its integral roles is to act as receptors for signal molecules and joining cells to each other and to the extracellular matrix.
Proteins
These are explicated as short chains of linked monosaccharides and are employed as identity molecules that prod cells to recognize who is who. It is located on the exterior surface of the membrane and generate a coating known as the glycocalyx.
Carbohydrates
What are the integral roles of the plasma membrane?
(1) Physical Barrier
(2) Selective Permeability
(3) Communication
(4) Cell Recognition
In this integral role of the plasma membrane, a protein (left) that spans the membrane may provide a hydrophilic channel across the membrane that is selective for a particular solute.. Some transport proteins (right) hydrolyze ATP as an energy source to actively pump substances across the membrane.
Transport
In this integral role of the plasma membrane, a membrane protein exposed to the outside of the cell may have a binding site that fits the shape of a specific chemical messenger, such as a hormone. When bound, the chemical messenger may cause a change in shape in the protein that initiates a chain of chemical reactions in the cell.
Receptors for signal trasnduction
In this integral role of the plasma membrane, a membrane protein may be an enzyme with its active site exposed to substances in the adjacent solution. A team of several enzymes in a membrane may catalyze sequential steps of a metabolic pathway as indicated (left to right) here.
Glycoprotein
Enzymatic Activity
In this integral role of the plasma membrane, some glycoproteins (proteins bonded to short chains of sugars which help to make up the glycocalyx) serve as identification tags that are specifically recognized by other cells.
Cell-to-Cell Recognition
In this integral role of the plasma membrane, membrane proteins of adjacent cells may be hooked together in various kinds of intercellular junctions.
Some membrane proteins (cell adhesion molecules or CAMS) of this group provide temporary binding sites that guide cell migration and other cell-to-cell interactions.
Cell-to-cell joining