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26 Cards in this Set
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a physical boundary between internal cell events
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plasma membrane
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everything but the plasma membrane and the nucleus/nucleoid
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cytoplasm
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the region of DNA in a cell
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nucleus
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0.1 nanometres
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Ångström
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cells with no membrane-bound nucleus
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prokaryotic
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Well-known exceptionally large single cells
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birds eggs
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most prokaryotic cells have this rigid structure outside the plasma membrane
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cell wall
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cells with many specialized membrane-bound compartments and a nucleus
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eukaryotic
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the specialized compartments in eukaryotic cells
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organelles
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organelles specializing in digestion and disposal
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lysosomes
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organelles specializing in energy extraction and conversion
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mitochondria
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blue-green algae
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cyanobacteria
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organelles specializing in materials conversion and disposal
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microbodies
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eukaryotic means...
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true nucleus
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prokaryotic means...
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before the nucleus
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compartments for sunlight conversion with photosynthetic pigments
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chloroplasts
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sets of flat, stacked fluid-filled sacs specializing in modification and distribution of material
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Golgi bodies
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fine strands involved in cell shape, motion and growth
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microfilaments
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separates the nucleus
from the cytoplasm |
nuclear envelope
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organelles specialized in photosynthetic food production
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plastids
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plastids with
non-photosynthetic pigments |
chromoplasts
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colorless plastids with starch storage - not exposed to sunlight
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amyloplasts
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very large fluid-filled organelle in plants used for storage and to incr. cell size and surface area
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central vacuole
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a slender cylindrical extension
of the cell surface that aides absorption or secretion of molecules |
microvillus
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cilia compared to flagella
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shorter and more numerous where they occur
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a structure made of RNA and proteins - the site of protein synthesis
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ribosome
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