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What is the smallest living unit of organization in the body?
cell
Each cell has what parts?
membrane, cytoplasm, organelles, and inclusions
What is the active transport of material from a vesicle within the cell out into the extracellular environment?
exocytosis
What is the uptake of materials from the extracellular environment into the cell?
endocytosis
What is the engulfing and then digesting of solid waste and foreign material by the cell through enzymatic breakdown of the material?
phagocytosis
What are collections of similarly specilaized cells most often surrounded by extracellular material?
tissue
Tissues bond together to form what?
organ
What is a somewhat independent body part that performs a specific function or functions?
organ
Organs can function together as a what?
system
Cells in a tissue undergo what, to reproduce themselves and replace the dead tissue cells?
cellular division
As a result of cellular division, what is formed?
2 identical daughter cells
What is the study of microscopic structures and function of cells and their tissues?
histology
What is another term for histology?
microanatomy
What completely surrounds the cell?
cell membrane
What is another name for cell membrane?
plasma membrane
What occurs where there is no fusion of a vesicle membrane with the cell membrane and subsequent expulsion of the contained material?
exocytosis
What is a "gatekeeper" of the cell's interior?
cell membrane
What serve as structural reinforcements as well as receptors for specific hormones, neurotransmitters, and immunoglobulins?
proteins of cell membranes
What includes the semifluid portion contained within the cell membrane boundary as well as the skeletal system of support?
cytoplasm
What are the spaces or cavities in cytoplasm?
vacuoles
What are specialized, metabolically active structures within the cell?
organelles
What subdivide the cell into compartments?
organelles
What are the major organelles of the cell?
nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi complex, lysosomes, and cytoskeleton
What is the largest, densest, and most conspicuous organelle in the cell when it is viewed microscopically?
nucleus
A nucleus is found in all cells except what type of cells?
red blood cells
What type of cell is mulitnucleated?
skeletal muscle cells
In an actively dividing cell, the chromatin condenses into microscopically visible, descrete, rodlike what?
chromosomes
What is a clear, constricted arear near the middle of the chromosome?
centromere
What are daughter chromosomes?
chromatid
What is the cell's memory bank?
nucleus
What is the command center of the cell?
nucleus
What are complementary copies of distinct segments of DNA?
mRNA
What are molecules capable of specifically binding to and transporting amino acids units for protein synthesis?
tRNA
What is the fluid portion within the nucleus that contains important molecules used in the constriction of ribosomes, nucleic acids, and other nuclear material?
nucleoplasm
The nucleus is completely by what, a membrane similar to the cell membrane, except that it is double layered?
nuclear envelope
The nuclear envelope may be pierced by what, which act as avenues of communication between the inner nucleoplasm and the outer cytoplasm?
nuclear pores
What is a prominent rounded nuclear organelle that is usually centrally placed in teh nucleoplasm when the cell is viewed microscopically?
nucleolus
What mainly produces rRNa and the nucleotides of the two other types of RNA?
nucleolus
What are the most numerous organelles in the cell?
mitochondria
What are the "power plants" of the cell?
mitochondria
What are the site of many metabolic reactions?
mitochondria
What keeps the cell istotonic?
mitochondria
What produces ATP?
mitochondria
What are "protein factories" of the cell?
ribosomes
What can be free in cytoplasm, bound to membranes, or within the mitochondria?
ribosomes
What is arranged in a network and is more concentrated in the cell's inner or endoplasmic region that in the peripheral or ectoplasmic region?
endoplasmic reticulum
The ER consists of what?
membrane-bound channels
What is involved in transport and storage?
rough ER
What is involved in modifying the enzyme?
rough ER
What makes lipid proteins smooth?
smooth ER
ER is transferred to what, for subsequent segregation, packaging, and transport of protein compound?
Golgi complex
What makes lysosomes?
Golgi complex
What is responsible for sorting and storing, transporting and packaging?
Golgi complex
What is for the heavy duty, nasty stuff?
Golgi complex
What organelles are produced by the Golgi complex?
lysosomes
What function in both intracellular and extracellular digestion by the cell?
lysosomes
What is the main hydrolytic enzyme in lysosomes?
hyaluronidase
The enzymes of the lysosomes are originally produced where?
the Rough ER
What destroy foreign particles?
lysosomes
What are dense, somewhat oval-shaped organelles?
centrosome
What are the pair of cylindrical structures contained in the centrosome?
centrioles
The centrosome is always located where?
near the nucleus
The centrosome plays a significant role in forming the what during cell division?
mitotic spindle
The interior of the cell has a 3-dimensional system of support called what?
cytoskeleton
What are the components of the cytoskeleton?
microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and microtubules
What are delicate threadlike microscopic structures in the cytoskeleton?
microfilaments
What are slender, hollow, tubular microscopic structures that may appear individually, doubly, or as triplets?
microtubules
What are various types of thicker, threadlike, microscopic structures within the cell?
intermediate filaments
What is an intermediate filament that that has a major role in intercellular junctions?
tonofilaments
What are intermediate filaments that are found in calloused epithelial tissues?
keratin
What are metabolically inert substances or structures that are transient?
inclusions
What are released from storage by the cell and used as demand dictates?
inclusions
What is the order of mitosis?
prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase
What stage of mitosis is when chromatin condenses into chromosomes. replicated centrioles migrate to opposite poles, nuclear membrane and nucleolus disintgrate?
prophase
What stage of mitosis has chromosomes mose so that their centromeres are aligned in teh equatorial plane, mitotic spindles form?
metaphase
What stage of mitosis has centromeres split, and each chromosome separates into two chromatids, chromatids migrate to opposite poles by the mitotic spindles?
anaphase
What stage of mitosis has division into two daughter cells and nuclear membrane reappears?
telophase
In what stage of mitosis are chromosomes first visible?
prophase
In what stage of mitosis are centromeres lined up?
metaphase
In what stage of mitosis are chromatids first visible?
anaphase
How many centrioles are there in a centrosome?
two
What is a stage of cellular life not of mitosis?
interphase
What stage has cells between divisions that engage in growth, metabolism, organelle replacement, and substance production, including chromatin and centrosome replication?
interphase
What is another name for tissue fluid?
interstitial fluid
What provides a medium for dissolving, mixing, and transporting substances and for carrying out chemical reactions?
tissue fluid
Where does tissue fluid come from?
blood capillaries
What washes away blood biproducts?
tissue fluid
What is an excessive amount of tissue fluid?
edema
What fills spaces between cells in a tissue and is shapeless, colorless, and transparent?
intercellular substance
Where does intercellular substance come from?
cells
What helps cells maintain integrity?
hyaluronic acid
What is an intercellular junction between cells?
desmosome
What hold parts of the cell together?
tonofilaments
What makes cytoskeleton pop back together?
tonofilaments
What involves attachment of a cell to an adjacent noncellular surface?
hemidesmosomes
What type of attachment is present with the gingival epithelium that attaches to the tooth surface?
hemidesmosome
Where does transcription occur?
nucleus
Where does translation occur?
cytoplasm
What is reading the copy of DNA?
translation
What is making a copy of chromosome?
transcription
What reads the copy of the chromosome?
rRNA
What knows the "recipe" of the chromosome?
tRNA