Week 2 Chapter 4, 5, 6, 7 Flashcards
What are the ways cells interact with the environment
Cells absorb nutrients through their surfaces
Cells get rid of wastes through their surfaces
A small cell has a lot of surface area per volume
A large cell has much less surface area per volume:
PROKARYOTIC CELLS
Small cell size: (tend to be; not all) Less than 10 m(1 1millionth of a meter) No nucleus No internal organelles: Ribosomes are small: 70s Simple; structurally not complicated
organelles
- : a structure inside a cell that is bound or surrounded by its own membrane
Ribosome
– accumulations of proteins and nucleic acid
- Responsible in all cells of protein production
Why are cells smalll
There is a limit in the size of cells because of the way cells interact with the environment.
- More space more surface area easier for interaction
- Amount of surface area not going to be able to handle demand of big volume
- Matter of effeciency
Cytoplasm
– all liquid part
- Everything inside the cell is suspended in liquid cytoplasm
Eukaryotic Cells
Bigger; have nucleus
Large size ribosomes : 80s
Large size:10m – 1000m (1 mm)
(human egg is a single cell; can see naked eye)
Nucleus : surrounded by a double membrane
Eukaryotic Cells
- Animals
Nucleus: surrounded by a double membrane
- Have holes
- Material inside cell: chromatin
- Chormatin: genetic material: DNA and protein
- Nucleolus: (another structure inside nucleu)
Nucleolus
o Condensed chromatin
o Site of RNA synthesis
o DNA in long strand in pieces; linear pieces - chromosome
In RNA once piece circular
o Prokaryotic – one chromosome
o Eurkaryotic – many chormosomes
Number – indicative of characteristcis of particular organism
Human have different than other animals
The internal Organelles of Eukaryotic Cells
- Membrane-bound nucleus
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Golgi apparatus
- Mitochondria
- Chloroplasts
- Vacuoles
- Lysosomes
- Cytoskeleton
- Flagella and Cilia
Endoplasmic reticulum
Long labrynth like membrane that fills up good portion of cytoplasm
- Two kinds
- Rougn ER:
- Smooth ER:
Rougn ER:
- studded with ribosomes
- site of protein synthesis
Smooth ER:
- no ribosomes
- site of lipid synthesis
o Connected to rough er
Golgi apparatus
- Protein processing and packaging
- (secretory proteins)
- Responsible for taking protein made in ER and packagaging them
- Any protein that cell is going to get rid of or secrete has to be package and its done in golgi apparatus
Mitochondria
- Cell powerhouse; site ofATP synthesis
- Production of energy inside a cell
- All energy takes form of ATP
Chloroplasts
- absorbs sunlight to do photosynthesis
- Leafy plants and algae only
- Photosynthesis (ATP from sunlight) and CO2 incorporation
Vacuoles
- Storage ‘compartments’: starch, enzymes
- Big;
vesicles
small storage compartments
Lysosomes
contain digestive enzymes to degrade engulfed material
Cytoskeleton
- Microtubules (tubulin)
- microfilaments (actin)
- centrioles
Microtubules (tubulin):
- organize and move the organelles
- responsible for cell shape
o Not bound by membrane
o protein
- microfilaments (actin):
movement of the cell (pseudopodia) and organelles (cyclosis)
o movement of organelles within cells
- centrioles
: organization of cell division
- organize formation of microtubules
o present during cell division
o difficult to find when cell is divided
Flagella and cilia
- ‘organs’ of locomotion: