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