Normal Cell Physiology

Question 1

bends over to fit through capillaries

Answer 1

Red blood cell

Question 2

has one thin layer of endothelial cells

Answer 2

capillaries

Question 3

stores genetic material, DNA

Answer 3

nucleus

Question 4

makes RNA and proteins

Answer 4

Ribosomes

Question 5

sorts and sends proteins where they need to go

Answer 5

golgi apparatus

Question 6

makes proteins to send to golgi- has one job

Answer 6

rough ER

Question 7

metabolizes molecules into other molecules, does a thousand things, detoxify, produce cholesterol…ect

Answer 7

smooth ER

Question 8

Makes ATP

Answer 8

mitochondria

Question 9

digestive enzymes, gets rid of or digests by cell

Answer 9

lysosomes

Question 10

contain oxidative enzymes that are important in producing hydrogen peroxide and ROS

Answer 10

peroxisomes

Question 11

has affinity for both oil and water

Answer 11

amphiopathic

Question 12

passage that allows hydrophilic substance to get through hydrophobic area

Answer 12

channels

Question 13

activated by ligand- enzyme inside cell is activated

Answer 13

enzyme linked receptor

Question 14

carbohydrate attached to protein that identifies cell to rest of the word

Answer 14

glycoprotein

Question 15

holds each cell together

Answer 15

adhesion molecules

Question 16

proteins within cell that give it structure, glad mosaic model

Answer 16

cytoskeleton

Question 17

stacked next to each other then anchored to basement membrane

Answer 17

endothelial cells

Question 18

water tight but not mechanically strong, runs all the way around cells + example

Answer 18

tight junction, intestinal wall, zona occludens

Question 19

mechanically strong but not water tight, runs all the way around cell

Answer 19

belt desmosomes, zona adherens

Question 20

one spot, very mechanically strong, holds two cells together + example

Answer 20

spot dismisomes, skin and cardiac muscle, macula adherens

Question 21

junction with holes, small molecules can flow for one cell to the other, depolarize one, depolarize the one next door + example

Answer 21

gap junctions, cardiac and smooth muscle

Question 22

in cardiac and smooth muscle we can shut _________ if one cell is injured

Answer 22

gap junctions

Question 23

material in one cell allows anchoring to basement membrane, one side attached to cell

Answer 23

hemi-desmosomes

Question 24

self signaling cell

Answer 24

autocrine

Question 25

neighboring cells communicate with one another, very short distance

Answer 25

paracrine

Question 26

secreting cell dumps hormone in blood and it goes to target cells with receptors available

Answer 26

hormonal

Question 27

neuron that dups neurotransmitter into blood which then works like a hormone

Answer 27

neurohormonal