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The Cell
Lab Slide Info On The Cell Exercise 4
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2012

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Chloroplast

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contain green pigment chlorophyll, responsible for photosynthesis

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Vacuole

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contains water filled with minerals that usually presides in the center of the cell – bound by a membrane known as the tonoplast

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Nucleoli

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resides within the nucleolus, transcribes ribosomal RNA (which is responsible for making protein)

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Cyclosis

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cytoplasmic flow

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Brownian Movement

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 random movement of particles suspended in a fluid

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Chromoplast

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another type of plastid that gives plants their colors because they are enriched with pigments

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myloplast

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aka leucoplast, contains starch grains 

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Recall Iodine stains starches 

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a purple or blue-black color

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Buccal Cells

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  • Body cavity cell 
  • Epithelial cells
  • Contains a thin cytoplasm, nucleus and nucleolus
  • Nucleoplasm should stain darkest
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Platelets

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originate from megakaryocytes in the bone marrow, function in coagulation

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