Is the basic unit of all living things | Cell |
Are simple cells that have no nucleus | Prokaryotic Cells |
Most are unicellular bacteria | Prokaryotic cells |
Are complex cells with a nucleus and subcellular structures (organelles). | Eukaryotic cells |
All fungi, plants, and animals are _________ | Eukaryotes |
It means "before" | Pro |
It means "karyon" | Nucleus |
Forms the cell's outer boundary and separates the cell's internal environment from the outside environment | Plasma membrane or "plasmalemma" |
It allows the passage of some things and not other | Selectively permeable barrier |
Plays a role in cellular communication | Plasma Membrane |
Is much more than just a "fence" - it is a flexible yet sturdy, "intelligent" semipermeable regular. | Plasma membrane |
It covers and protects the cell | Plasma membrane |
It controls what goes in and comes out | Plasma Membrane |
It is the linkage to other cells | Gap Junction |
Bleeding in blood vessels | Clot formation |
It occurs because of the linkage | Platelet Aggregation |
Flies certain "flags" to tell other cells "who" it is | Plasma membrane |
It describes the arrangement of molecules within the membrane. | Fluid Mosaic Model |
They resemble a sea of phospholipids with protein "icebergs" floating in it. | Fluid Mosaic Model |
Act as a barrier to certain polar substances | Lipids |
Protein pore | Aquaporin |
Act as "gatekeepers", allowing passage of specific molecules and ions | Proteins |
It surrounds the inner and outer portion | Protein molecule |
It forms a lipid bilayer | Phospholipids |
Composition of lipid bilayer | Cholesterol and glycolipids |
Extend into or through the bilayer | Integral proteins |
Spa the entire lipid bilayer | Transmembrane proteins |
Attach to the inner or outer surface but do not extend through the membrane | Peripheral proteins |
Are membrane proteins with a carbohydrate group attached that protrude into the extracellular fluid | Glycoproteins |
Is the entire "sugary coating" surrounding the membrane (made up of the carbohydrate portions of the glycolipids and glycoproteins). | Glycocalyx |
It is found in some bacteria | Glycocalyx |
Selectively move substances through the membrane | Transporters |
For cellular recognition; a ligand is a molecule that binds with a receptor | Receptors |
Catalyze chemical reactions | Enzymes |
Forms a pore through which a specific ion can flow to get across membrane. | Ion Channel |
Allows specific ion to move through water-filled pore. Most plasma membranes include specific channels for several common ions. | Ion Channel |
Transports a specific substance across membrane by undergoing a change in shape. | Carrier |
selectively moves a polar substance or ion from one side of the membrane to the other | Carrier |
These are also known as transporters | Carrier |
Carries specific substances across membrane by changing shape. | Carrier |
Recognizes specific ligand and alters cell’s function in some way. | Receptor |
Is a molecule that binds with a receptor | Ligand |
For cellular recognition | Receptor |
Hormones do not enter the cell, the just attach to the receptor sites | TRUE |
Recognizes specific molecule and alters cell's function in some way. | FALSE |
Catalyzes chemical reactions | Enzyme |
Catalyzes reaction inside or outside cell (depending on which direction the active site laces). | Enzyme |
For example, lactase protruding from epithelial cells lining your small intestine splits the disaccharide lactose in the milk you drink. | Enzyme |
For example, antidiuretic hormone binds to receptors in the kidneys and changes the water permeability of certain plasma membranes. | Receptor |
For example, amino acids, needed to synthesize new proteins, enter body cells via carriers. Carrier proteins are also known as transporters. | Carrier |
Anchors filaments inside and outside the plasma membrane, providing structural stability and shape for the cell. | Linker |
Peripheral proteins also serves as _________ | Enzymes and linkers |
May also participate in movement of the cell or link two cells together | Linker |
Distinguishes your cells from anyone else’s (unless you are an identical twin). e.g. ABO blood type | Cell identity marker (glycoprotein) |
Important class of such markers | Major Histocompatibility (MHC) proteins |
Because of the distribution of lipids and the proteins embedded in it, the membrane allows some substances across but not others; this is called ___________ | Selective permeability |
small, neutrally-charged, lipid-soluble substances can freely pass. | Rule of Thumb |
is a special case - it is highly polar, yet still freely permeable. | Water |
For those substances that are needed by the cell but for which the
membrane is impenetrable (impermeable), ____________ _________ act as channels and transporters. | Transmembrane proteins |
They assist the entrance of certain substances that either can't pass at all (glucose) or for which the cell needs to hasten passage (ions). | Membrane permeability |
Involve substances moving across the cell membranes without the input of any energy - they are said to move "with" or "down" their concentration gradient ([gradient], where [ ] indicates "concentration"). | Passive processes |
is the passive spread of particles through random motion, from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration. | Diffusion |
↑difference in concentration ↑ rate of diffusion. | Steepness of the concentration gradient |
↑temperature ↑ rate of diffusion. | Temperature |
↑ mass of the diffusing particle ↓diffusion rate | Mass of the diffusing substance. |
↑surface area ↑ diffusion rate. | Surface area |
↑ distance ↑time | Diffusion distance |
Is the net movement of water through a selectively permeable membrane from an area of high water concentration to one of lower water concentration. | Osmosis |
Water can pass through plasma membrane in 2 ways: | through lipid bilayer by simple diffusion
through aquaporins (integral membrane proteins) |
In the third tube, the force generated by the movement of water from the left to the right side is called | Osmotic Pressure |
requires a specific channel or a carrier molecule, but no energy is used | Facilitated diffusion |
Passage of potassium ions through a gated K+ Channel | Channel-Mediated Facilitated Diffusion |
Passage of glucose across the cell membrane. | Carrier-Mediated Facilitated Diffusion |
refers to the concentration of salt solutions in the blood and elsewhere. | Tonicity |
Since semipermeable membranes separate these fluid compartments, osmosis of water is free to occur between any fluid space and another. | Tonicity |
The effect of changing tonicity is demonstrated in this graphic, as water
moves m and out of red blood cells. | Tonicity |
same salt concentration is the same as rbc | Isotonic |
Ideal fluid for passage of drugs | Isotonic |
in donor and donee situations | cross matching |
Also known as Normal Saline Solutions | 0.9% NaCl |
Neutralizer | Isotonic Solution |
usually 0.3% (hospital); lesser than the salt concentration of rbc | Hypotonic |
When patients are vomiting; rbs are __________ | Dehydrated |
Used when given meds intravenously | Hypotonic |
higher concentration gradient then inside the rbc (e.g. 5%) | Hypertonic |
Neurons are swelling/inflammation | Hypertonic |
involve the use of energy, primarily from the breakdown of ATP, to move a substance against its [gradient]. | Active processes |
Various types of transporters are used, and energy is required. | Active processes |
Solutes can also be actively transported across a plasma membrane against their concentration gradient ([low] to [high]) by using energy (usually in the form of ATP). | Active processes |
The sodium-potassium pump is found in all cells. | Active processes |
For every 3 sodium going in _________ goes out | 2 potassium |
Intracellular cation - potassium | Going out - passive |
Extracellular cation - sodium | Going out - active |
Antiporters carry two substances across the membrane in opposite
directions. | Secondary Active Transport Mechanisms |
Symporters carry two substances across the membrane in the same
direction. | Secondary Active Transport Mechanisms |
a small spherical sac formed by budding off from a membrane | Vesicle |
It came from golgi apparatus | Vesicles |
materials move into a cell in a vesicle formed from the plasma membrane | Endocytosis |
Key type; e.g. hormone, LDL receptor | Receptor-mediated endocytosis |
"cell-eating", eating of a solid molecule (most common: bacteria) | Phagocytosis |
liquid endocytosis, engulfing smaller molecules, and more numerous | Bulk-phase endocytosis (pinocytosis) |
vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane, releasing their contents into the extracellular fluid | Exocytosis |
a combination of endocytosis and exocytosis | Transcytosis |
a gelatin-like substance, plus structural fibers and organelles (but not the nucleus) | Cytoplasm |
contains all the cellular contents between the plasma membrane and the nucleus. | Cytoplasm |
It is the fluid portion (mostly water). | Cytosol |
are subcellular structures embedded in the cytosol, having characteristic shapes and specific functions. | Organelles |
intracellular fluid, surrounding the organelles | Cytosol |
The site of many chemical reactions | Cytosol |
Energy is usually released by these reactions. | Cytosol |
Reactions provide the building blocks for cell maintenance, structure, function and growth. | Cytosol |
Specialized structures within the cell | Organelles |
Network of protein filaments throughout the cytosol | Cytoskeleton |
Provides structural support for the cell | Cytoskeleton |
smallest type of filament | microfilaments |
middle | intermediate filaments |
It is the largest and seen in the tail of sperm cells | Microtubules |
Located near the nucleus and it consists of two centrioles and pericentriolar material. | Centrosome |
Made up of microtubules, important in mitosis, and responsible in formation of mitotic spindle | Centrosome |
Mitotic spindle takes place in _______ | Cell division |
Consists of 3-20 flattened, membranous sacs called _________ | Cisternae |
Modify, sort, and package proteins for transport to different destinations. | Golgi Complex |
Longer than cilia | Flagella |
Move an entire cell | Flagella |
The only example of flagella | Sperm cell's tail |
short, hair-like projections from the cell surface | Cilia |
Move fluids along a cell surface | Cilia |
found in the respiratory and digestive tract; for movement, sweep dust particles that enter. | Cilia |
These are paralyzed in smokers | Cilia |
vesicles that form from the Golgi complex and contain powerful digestive enzyme | Lysosomes |
It means that cell is about to die or cell is being destroyed | Lots of lysosome |
Suicide bag of the cell | Lysosome |
Sites of protein synthesis | Ribosomes |
large subunit + small subunit = | complete functional ribosome |
TRUE OR FALSE: in order to produce protein, both subunit should merge | TRUE |
TRUE OR FALSE without two of the subunits protein would not be produced | FALSE |
For typhoid fever; attack the large subunit (50s) | Chloramphenicol |
for tonsillitis, attack the small subunits (30s) | Erythromycin |
Found inside the nucleus and in the cytoplasm | Ribosomes |
Formed in the nucleolus then exits into the rough endoplasmic reticulum through nuclear pores | Ribosomes |
Network of membranes in the shape of flattened sacs or tubules | Endoplasmic Reticulum |
A series of flattened sacs surface is studded with ribosomes | Rough ER |
The rough ER produces various _______ | proteins |
Connected directly to the nucleus | Rough ER |
Continuously destroy unneeded, damaged, or faulty proteins. More on proteins | Proteasomes |
Type of lysosomes specific to proteins | Proteasomes |
It is found in the cytosol and the nucleus because ribosomes is produced in the nucleolus in the nucleus. | Proteasomes |
The powerhouses of the cell and it generates ATP | Mitochondria |
It act as fuel and it is needed in active transport | ATP, adenosine triphosphate |
More prevalent in physiologically active cells: | Muscles, liver, and kidneys |
Have inner and outer mitochondrial membranes similar in structure to the plasma membrane | Mitochondria |
the series of folds of the inner membrane | Cristae |
the largest central fluid-tilled cavity | Matrix |
TRUE or FALSE: DNA is inherited only from your mother | TRUE |
A network of membrane tubules that does not have ribosomes | Smooth ER |
Smooth ER synthesizes _______ and _________ | Fatty acids and Steroids |
It detoxifies certain drugs | Liver |
This are commonly found in the ovaries and testes because they produce _________ and _________ | Estrogen and Testosterone |
Contains the genetic library of the cell | Nucleus |
Large organelle that contains DNA in molecules | Chromosomes |
Each chromosomes consists of a single molecule of DNA and associated proteins | Nucleus |
A chromosomes contains thousands of hereditary units called _______ | Genes |
DNA testing is done in what part? | Nucleus |
What is the shape of the nucleus | Spherical or oval |
A double membrane that separates the nucleus from the cytoplasm | Nuclear Envelope |
This are absent in prokaryotes | Nucleus |
Numerous openings in the nuclear envelope | Nuclear pores |
control movement of substances between nucleus and cytoplasm | Nuclear pores |
where substances like ribosomes pass through as it goes out of the
nucleus | Nuclear pores |
Spherical body that produces ribosomes | Nucleolus |
The cell's hereditary traits. It control activities and structure of the cell | Genes |
Long molecules of DNA combines with protein molecules | Chromosomes |
The cell cycle is a sequence of events in which a body cell duplicates its contents and divides in two | Somatic Cell Division |
Body cells | Somatic |
How many pairs of chromosomes are there in humans | 23 pairs |
The two chromosomes that make up each pair are called ______ | Homologous chromosomes (homologs) |
Somatic cells contain two sets of chromosomes and are called _______ | Diploid cells |
The cell is not dividing | Interphase |
the cell replicates its DNA | Interphase |
It consists of three phases: G1, S, and G2 | Interphase |
Duration of G1 | 8-10 hours |
Duration of S-replication | 8 hours |
Duration of G2 | 4-6 hours |
consists of a nuclear division (mitosis) and a cytoplasmic division (cytokinesis) to form two identical cells | Mitotic Phase |
the chromatin fibers change into chromosomes | Prophase |
microtubules align the centromeres of the chromatid pairs at the metaphase plate | Metaphase |
the chromatid pairs split at the centromere and move to opposite poles of the cell | Anaphase |
the chromatids are now called chromosomes | Anaphase |
two identical nuclei are formed around the identical sets of chromosomes now in their chromatin form | Telophase |
Division of a cell’s cytoplasm to form two identical cells | Cytokinesis |
It usually begins in late anaphase | Cytokinesis |
The plasma membrane constricts at its middle, forming a _________ | Cleavage furrow |
The cell eventually splits into two daughter cells | Cytokinesis |
It begins when cytokinesis is complete | Interphase |
reproductive cell division that occurs in the gonads (ovaries and testes) that produces gametes with half the number of chromosomes | Meiosis |
gametes contain a single set of 23 chromosomes | Haploid cells |
Meiosis occurs in two successive stages: | Meiosis I and Meiosis II |
Each of these two stages has 4 phases: | Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase |
Total number of chromosomes | 46 chromosomes |
Total number of chromosomes | 46 chromosomes |