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The cell is

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the basic unit of structure and function in the body

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cells are measured in

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micrometers

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cells that have developed specialized characteristics are said to be

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differentiated

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What are the three major parts of a cell?

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Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Cell Membrane

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Cytoplasm consists of

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organelles, with specific functions, suspended in a liquid called cytosol

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What does the cell membrane do?

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It is the outer boundary of the cell and maintains integrity of the cell.

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Cell Membrane regulates

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entry and exit of substances, meaning it is selectively permeable.

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What is signal transfuction?

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Permits cells to receive and respond to messages

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What does the cell membrane consist of?

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Mainly of lipids and proteins, with some carbohydrates

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Cell membrane framework is a

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phospholipid bilayer

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What forms the surface of the phosopholipid bilayer?

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Water-soluble (hydrophilic) heads

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What forms the interior of the phosopholipid bilayer?

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Water-insoluble (hydrophobic) tails

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Bilayer is permeable to

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lipid-soluble substances

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bilayer is impermeable to

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water-soluble substances

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What does Cholesterol do with the cell membrane?

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Stabilizes membrane, and helps keep it impermeable to water-soluble susbtances

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What do Carbohydrates do with the cell membrane?

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Cel recognition and interaction, cell markers

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What do Mutations in Na+ Channels cause?

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Inability to feel pain or extreme pain conditions

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What do mutations in K+ channels cause?

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Can disrupt electrical activity of the heart and disturb heart rhythm, and/or impair hearing

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What do abnormal Cl- channels cause?

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Cystic Fibrosis: Production of thick mucus which causes difficulty breathing, clogged pancreas, salty sweat

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What do CAMs do?

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Guide cells on the move

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What do Selectins do?

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Coat white blood cells and anchor them by providing friction

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What do Integrins do?

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Direct white blood cells through capillary walls toward infection sites .Integrins guide embryonic cells toward maternal cells to form placenta and establish connectiosn between nerve cells

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What does cytoplasm consist of?

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Networks of membranes and organelles suspended in cytosol.

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What is cytosol?

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Fluid portion of the cytoplasm

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What are organelles?

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Tiny soldi structures with specific functions in the cells

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What are ribosomes?

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Composed of protein and RNA. Free in cytoplasm or on RER

Provides structural support and enzyme activity to link amino acids in protein synthesis

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What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum

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Membrane-Bound Sacs, Canals, Vesicles

Tubular Transport System

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ER- Rough ER contains

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ribosomes, conducts protein synthesis

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ER- Smooth ER

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does not have ribosomes, conducts lipid synthesis

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What are vesicles?

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membranous sacs

Store or transport substances

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What is the Golgi apparatus?

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Sacs of flattened membranous sacs

Refines, packages, and delivers proteins made on the RER

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Structure of Mitochondria?

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Membrane-bound, fluid-filled sacs

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Mitochondria houses

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chemical reactions that extract energy from nutrients (cellular respiration, which produces ATP)

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Lysosomes Structure

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Small membranous sacs

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Lysosomes description?

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Contains enzymes that digest proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, bacteria, debris, worn out cell parts

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Lysosomes also known as

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“garbage disposals” of cell

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Peroxisomes structure?

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Membranous sacs similar to lysosomes

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Peroxisomes Descrption?

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Contain enzymes that digest lipids, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide

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What are microfilaments, microtubulues, and intermediate filaments?

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Thread-like structures in cytoplasm. Create the cytoskeleton

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What are microfilaments?

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Tiny rods of actin; provide cellular movement such as muscle contractions.

Larger tubes of tubulin, rigidity maintains cell shape, make up cilia, flagella, and centrioles. And helps move organelles.

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What are intermediate filaments?

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Composed of several proteins. A cytoskeletal structure. Supports nuclear envelope

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What is a centrosome?

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“Central Body” consisting of two centrioles

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Where is the centrosome located at?

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in cytoplasm, near nucleus

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Centrosome structure?

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Cylindrical, composed of microtubulues

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Centrosome Function?

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Produce spindle fibers during cell division, which distribute chromosomes to forming daughter cells

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Cilia are

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motile extensions of cell membrane

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cilia consist of

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microtubulues in cylindrical pattern

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cilia form

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a “fringe” on surface of certain epithelial cells

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cilia are shorter

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than flagella, but very abundant when present

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cilia propel

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mucus in respiratory tract, propel egg toward uterus

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flagella are another type of

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motile extension from cell membrane

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flagella are

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similar in structure to cilia, but much longer

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flagellum causes

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the entire cell to move

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tail of a sperm cell is

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the only flagellum in a human cell

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What is Melas?

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Mutant gene in DNA of mitochondria

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How does Melas affect a person?

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Person cannot extract maximum energy from nutritents

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What is Krabbe Disease?

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Caused by inability to produce one lysosomal enzyme

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How does Krabbes Disease affect a person?

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Person cannot produce myelin for nerve cells, which leads to severe damage to the nervous system

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What is ADL?

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Caused by lack of a protein in membrane of peroxisomes

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How does ADL affect a person?

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Fatty acid buildup destroys myelin sheath of nerve cells. Nerve cells cannot transmit nerve impulses fast enough

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What is the nuclear envelope?

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Porous double layered membrane that separates nucleoplasm from cytoplasm. Nuclear pores allows passage of certain substances

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What is a nucleolus?

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Dense body of RNa and Protein. Site of ribosome production

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What is a chromatin?

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COnsists of cell’s chromsomes, each containing DNA wound around proteins. Stores information for protein synthesis

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What are the Passive Processes?

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Diffusion, Osmosis, Facilitated Diffusion , and Filtration

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What are the Active Processes?

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Active Transport
Endocytosis
Exocytosis
Transcytosis

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What is Diffusionn?

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Movement of atoms, molecules, or ions from region of higher concentration to region or lower concentration

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Diffusion occurs

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due to constant motion of atoms, molecules, and ions

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Diffusion, only substances

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that the cell membrane is permeable to. Oxygen, CO2, and other lipid soluble substances

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What kind of process is diffusion?

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Passive, no ATP required

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Example of Diffusion?

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A dissolving sugar cube

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What is Facilitated Diffusion?

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Diffusion across the cell membrane through ion channels or transporters

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Facilitated Diffusion contains what water-soluble substances?

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Na+, K+, Cl-, Glucose, Amino Acids

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What kind of process is Facilitated Diffusion?

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PAssive Process, no ATP required

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What is Osmosis?

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movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane from a region of higher water concentration to a region of lower water concentration

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osmosis- water moves into

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a region containing higher impermeant solute concentration

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what kind of process is osmosis?

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Passive process, no ATP required

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what is osmotic pressure?

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ability of osmosis to generate enough pressure to lift a volume of water.

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Osmotic pressures inceases as

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the concentration of impermeant solute increases

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What is a isotonic solution?

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Same osmotic pressure. Cells in an isotonic solution have no neet gain or loss of water

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what is a hypertonic solution?

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higher osmotic pressure.

cells in a hypertonic solution lose water

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what is a hypotonic solution?

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lower osmotic pressure

cells in a hypotonic solution gain water

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What is filtration?

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process that forces molecules through membranes by exerting pressure

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What is filtration used for?

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used to separate solids from water, or small particles from large ones

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example of filtration?

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when blood plasma leaves capillaries, water and small solutes are filtered, but large plasma proteins are not

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what type of process is filtration?

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passive process, requires no ATP

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what is active transport?

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movement of substances across a membrane from region of lower concentration to region of higher concentration against a concentration gradient

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active transport uses

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carrier molecules in cell membrane

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what kind of process is active transport

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active process, requires ATP

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examples of active transport?

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sugars, amino acids, Ca+ H+ Na/K Pump

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what is endocytosis?

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movement of a substance into the cell inside a vesicle

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Three types of endocytosis?

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Pinocytosis

Phagocytosis

Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis

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what is pinocytosis?

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membrane engulfs droplets of liquid

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what is phagocytosis?

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membrane engulfs solid particles

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what is receptor-mediated endocytosis?

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membrane engulfs specific substances, which have bound to receptor proteins on the membrane

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what is exocytosis?

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release of substances/particles from cell

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Exocytosis - vesicles containing particles..

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fuse with cell membrane and release contents

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example of exocytosis?

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release of neurotransmitter from nerve cells

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what does transcytosis involve?

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involves receptor-mediated endocytosis followed by exocytosis

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transcytosis quickly..

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transports substances from one end of cell to the other

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transcytosis moves

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substances across barriers form by tightly connected cells

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example of transcytosis?

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transport of hiv across lining of anus or vagina

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What is a cell cycle?

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series of changes a cell undergoes from the time it forms until the time it divides

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stages of cell cycle?

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Inteprhase
Mitosis
Cytokinesis

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Interphase is a

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very active period in cell cycle where cell grows and maintains normal functions

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Interphase - cell

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replicates DNA to prepare for mitosis

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Interphase - cell synthesizes

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organelles, membranes, and biochemicals to prepare for cytokinesis

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Phases of Interphase?

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S Phase

G1 and G2 Phases

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What is S Phase?

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DNa is replicated during this

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What is G1 and G2 Phase?

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Structures other thana DNa are replicated and cell grows during this.

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Mitosis produces

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two daughter cells from an original somatic cell

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what is mitosis?

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division of the nucleus

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what is cytokinesis?

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division of the cytoplasm

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Phases of Mitosis?

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Prophase

Metaphase

Anaphase

Telophase

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What is Prophase

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Chromatin condenses to form chromosomes, centrioles move to opposite sides of cytoplasm, nuclear envelope and nucleolus disperse

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what is metaphase

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spindle fibers from centrioles attach to chromsomes and align them midway between centrioles

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what is anaphase?

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chromosomes separate and move in opposite directions toward centrioles as the spindle fibers shorten

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what is telophase?

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chromosomes return to chromatin structure, nuclear envelope forms around each chromosome set, and nucleoli became visible

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What is cytokinesis?

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cytoplasmic division

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when does cytokinesis begin?

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during anaphase

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cytokinesis continues through

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telophase

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what happens during cytokinesis?

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contractile ring of actin filaments pinches cytoplasm in half.

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after cytokinesis, newly formed cells will

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have identical DNA, may have slightly different size and number of organelles

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SKin cells, intestinal cells, and blood -forming cells with divide

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often and continually

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neurons divide

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a specific number of times, and then cease

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chromosome tipis (telomeres) that shorten with each mitosis provide

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a miotic clock

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What is contact inhibition?

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healthy cells stop dividing when they become crowded. Tumors can result from a loss of control over the frequency of mitosis

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what are 2 types of tumors?

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benign and malignant

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what is a benign tumor?

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remains in local area

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what is a malignant tumor?

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invasive, cancerous, can spread or metastasize

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two major types of genes that cause cancer?

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oncogenes

tumor suppressor genes

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what are oncogenes?

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abnormal forms of genes that control cell cycle but are overexpressed

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what are tumor suppressor genes?

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normally limit mitosis, but if inactivated/removed, cannot regulate mitosis

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what is differentiaition?

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process of specialization of cells

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stem cells can divide to

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form two new stem cells, called self-renewal

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stem cells can also divide to

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form a stem cell and a progenitor cell

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stem cells can differentiate as

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any of many cell types

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what is a progenitor cell?

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partially specialized stem cell, daughter of stem cell

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progenitor cell can divide to

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become any of a restricted number of cells, called a “committed cell”

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what is totipotent?

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daughter cells that can specialize to become any cell type?

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totoipotent examples?

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fertilized egg, cells of early embryo

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what is pluripotent?

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daughter cells that can become a limit number of cell types

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examples of pluripotent?

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stem cells of later development, progenitor cells

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Example of differentiation

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a fertilized egg has the ability to produce any type of human cell, while partially differentiate dcells can only produce some types or a sngle type of cell

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stem and progenitor cells are required for

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growth and healing

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what is regenerative medicine?

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field that uses bodys ability to generate new cells to treat diseases and injuries; includes stem cell technology

146
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sources of stem cells for research, treating diease/injuries

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donor stem cells

stem cells from patients

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where do donor stem cells come from?

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such as umbilical cord cells

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where do stem cells from patients come from?

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either form natural site, such as bone marrow, or reprogrammed differentiated cells grown in cell culture

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what is apoptosis?

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programmed cell death that is a normal part of development

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apoptosis removes

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webbing between fetal fingers and toes

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apoptosis- protective

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pells away damaged skin after a sunburn

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what is necrosis

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cell death from damage, not a normal process