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BIMESTRAL EXAM_1
CELLS
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Biology
10th Grade
09/19/2012

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ORGANELLES

Definition
Each structure in the eukaryotic cell has a vital function to the cell.
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NUCLEUS

Definition
  • Contains the chromosomes (genetic information)
  • Information storage and processing center
  • Assembly of ribosomes begin
  • Headquarter of factory
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CYTOPLASM

Definition
  • Portion of cell outside of nucleus
  • Stock room of factory
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NUCELAR ENVELOPE

Definition
  • Made of two membranes
  • Nuclear pores
  • Consists of DNA bond to spread proteins
  • Office walls of the headquarters of factory
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RIBOSOMES

Definition
  • Make proteins
  • No membrane
  • Worker in factory
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ROUGH ER

Definition
  • Synthesise proteins
  • Covered by riboses, which proteins prodeuce, go to the rough ER to undergo folding
  • The proteins go to the plama membrane, to the cell exterior
  • Assembly line in a factory
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GOLGI APPARATUS

Definition
  • Made of flattened sacs called cisternae
  • Distinct polarity
  • Carry porteins and other products to and from the molecules
  • Modify, sort or package proteins from the RER to be stored or secrated 
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SMOOTH ER

Definition
  • Has no ribosomes in its surface
  • Synthesises lipids with enzymes that catalyze reactions involving lipids
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LYSOSOMES

Definition
  • Animal cells
  • Digestive centers
  • Recycling centers
  • Bins in factorie
  • Have ensymes and are acid
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VACUOLES

Definition
  • Single membrane
  • Plants and fungi
  • Recycling centers
  • Large storage containers
  • Found in plant cells making it possible to support heavy structures such as leaves and flowers
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MITOCHONDRIA

Definition
  • Double membrane
  • ATP production
  • Warehouse of the factorie
  • Gets energy from food and turns it into compuonds that are more usable by cells
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CHLOROPLASTS

Definition
  • Double membrane
  • Production of ATP and sugars via photosynthesis
  • Plant cells
  • Warehouse of factory
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CYTOSKELETON

Definition
  • No membrane
  • Structural support
  • Moves the cell itself and materials within the cell 
  • Protein fillaments
  • MICROFILAMENTS   MICROTUBULES
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CENTRIOLES

Definition
  • Made up of tubulins
  • Located near the nucleus
  • Help to organize cell division
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CELL WALL

Definition
  • Present in prokariotes
  • Outside cell membrane
  • Porous enough to allow H20, 02 and CO2
  • Provides support and protection
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CELL MEMBRANE

Definition
  • Regulates what enters and leaves the cell
  • Provides protection and support
  • Double layered sheet: lipid bilayer
  • Carbohydrate chain (Chemical ID - allows individual cells to identify one another)
  • Protein channel
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DIFFUSION

Definition
  • Goal is to reach equilibrium 
  • Substances diffuse across membranes without requiring the cells to use energy
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OSMOSIS

Definition
  • Is the diffusion of H2O through a selectively permeable membrane
  • Water can pass easily across the membrane
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FACILITADED DIFFUSION

Definition
  • Cell membrane have protein channels that make it easy for certain types of molecules to cross the membrane 

 

 

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ACTIVE TRASNPORT

Definition
  • Against a concentration difference
  • Requires energy
  • Carried out by proteins or "pumps" in the membranes (protein channels)
  • Involves changes in the shape of the membrane
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ENDOCYTOSIS (1.0)

Definition
  • Taking material into the cell by means of infoldings, or pockets, of the cell membrane
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ENDOCYTOSIS (1.1) PHAGOCYTOSIS

Definition
  • Cell eating
  • Cell creates an extension to engulf a big molecule
  • This molecule (phagosome) is taken to the lysosomes for digestion
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PINOCYTOSIS

Definition
  • Brings fluids to the cell by small vesicles in the cell membrane. These fluids are not taken to the lysosome but used elsewhere in the cell.
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