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the inside of the nuclear envelope is lined by
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nuclear lamina
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a network of intermediate filaments that maintin the shape of the nuleus
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nuclear lamina
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a framework of fibers extending throughout the nuclear interior
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nuclear matrix
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what are the main energy transformers inside a cell?
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mitochondria and cholorplasts
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what does cellular respirtaion, genrates ATP from catbolism of sugars, fats, etc in presence of Oxygen?
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Mitochondira
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what is found in plants and Eukaryotic algae that have sites of photosynthesis?
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Chloroplasts
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What is the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy and synthesizes new organic compounds?
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photosynthesis
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T/F chloroplasts generate ATP?
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true
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Mitochondria and Chloroplasts are both not considered part of _______.
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endomembrane system
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Almost all Eukaryotic cells have what?
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mitochondria
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Describe the structure of a mitochondria and a cholorplast
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double membrane bound structure like the nucleus
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the number of mitochondria is correlated with what
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aerobic metabolic activity
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smooth outer membrane is permeable by small solutes but blocks large proteins and other macormolecules is what?
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mitochondria
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the cirstae do what in a mitochondria
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create surface area for the enxymes that synthesize ATP
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what is the fluid filled space containing DNA ribosomes and ezymes in a Mitochondria
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Mitochondrial matrix
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chromoplasts, chloroplasts and amyloplasts are all members of a plant structure called. . .
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plastids
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what type of plant structure stores starch in roots and tubes?
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amyloplasts
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what type of plant structure stores pigments for fruits and flowers?
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chromoplasts
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what type of plant structure produces sugar via photosynthesis
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chloroplasts
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how does a chloroplast get it's color?
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high levels of green pigment chlorophyll
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chloroplasts are found where?
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leaves and green strucutres
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between the double membrane bound strcutre of a chloroplast is the
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intermembrane space
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inside the innermost membrane is the
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stroma
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whats in the stroma?
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floating thylakoids
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inside the thylakoids is what?
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a fluid filled space called thykaoid psace
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Stacked thylakoids are called
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grana
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Where is the first step of photosynthesis occur in a chloroplast?
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grana
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what generates and degrades hydrogen peroxide from various substrates to oxygen?
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peroxisomes
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how do peroxisomes convert hydrogen peroxide into water?
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peroxisomes produce hydrogen peroxide, a poison, but the peroxisome has another enxyme that converts hydrogen peroxide to water
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what can break fatty acids down to smaller molecues that are transported to mitochondria for fuel?
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peroxisomes
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what detoxifies alcohol and other harmful compounds?
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peroxisomes
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what converts fatty acids in seeds to complex sugars?
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glyoxysomes
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what are bounded by a single membrane, not formed by the endomembrane system but by proteins and lipids from teh cytosol?
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peroxisomes
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what is involved in cell movement, organized cel structrual support and regulation of the activites of the cell?
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cytoskeleton
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what provides mechanical support, maintinas shape of the cell?
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cytoskeleton
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what part of the cell anchors many organelles and many of the metabolic enxymes in particular places?
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cytoskeleton
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what ipart of the cell is dynamic, dismantaling in one part and reassembling in another to change the cell's shape
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cytoskeleton
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what part of the cell interacts with motor proteins, cillia and flagella and how does this work?
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cytoskeleton, they pull filaments past each other causing cilia and flagella to move and thus move the cell
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what is associated with the cytoskeleton and also carries vesciles or organelles to various destinations along specific tracks formed by the cytoskeleton?
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motor molecules
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what is it called when interactions of motor proteins and the cytoskeleton circulate materials within a cell
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cytoplastmic streaming
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what are the three main types of fibers in the cytoskeleton?
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microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate filaments
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons have the thickest fibers?
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons is constructed by tubulin a globular protein?
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons move chromosomes during cell division
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons increases or decreases in size as u add mite or less tubules
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons act as tracks to guide motor proteins carrying organelles to their destinations
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons sometimes grow out of the centrosome
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons resists compression of the cell and are attached to the cell membrane by proteins called integrins?
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Microtubules
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Microtubules are attached to the cell membrane and other structures by a protein called
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Integrin
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons are the central structural supports in cilia and flagella
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Microtubules
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons is the thinnest and are solid rods composed of globular protein actin
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Microfilaments
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons resists tension and act as tension wires for the cytoskeleton
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Microfilaments
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Which of the three types of cytoskeletons has a 3d network just inside the plasma membrane to help support cell shape
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Microfilaments
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cellular extension that extend and contract through the reversible assembly and contraction of actin subunitis into microfilaments are called
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pseudopodia
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circular flow of cytoplasmin cell with requires ATP and speeds distribution of materials within the cell
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cytoplasmic streaming
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between (cilia and flagella) which occur in large numbers inside a cell?
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cilia
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between (cilia and flagella) which occur once or twice in cells?
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flagella
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between (cilia and flagella) which moves like oars, a power stroke then a recovery one
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cilia
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between (cilia and flagella) which moves like a snake, undulates
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flagella
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between (cilia and flagella) which is the longest?
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flagella
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what two things share a common structure in that each has a core of microtubules sheathed in an extension of plasma membrane?
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flagella and cilia
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what anchors flagella and cilia to the cell?
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basal body
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what drives the bending of eukaryotic cilia and flagella?
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dynein, a motor protein
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what type of protein is dynein?
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motor protein
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how do cilia and flagella bend? what is this called?
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a phosphate is added or removed to the motor protein dyein. Dyein tries to slide up and down but protein cross links prevent the sliding and the tension is expressed as bending and waving. This is called the sliding filament theory
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sliding filament theory
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protein cross-links limit sliding and the force is expressed as a bending of the organelle
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which type of cell is encased in a cell wall?
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plant cell
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cell walls are found in what?
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prokaryotes, fungi and some protists
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what protects the cell, maintains its shape and prevents excessive uptake of water?
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cell wall
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what supports the plant agains the force of gravity?
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cell wall
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what is the design like for a cell wall?
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consits of microfibrils of cellulose embedded in a matrix of proteins nd other polysaccharides. it's like steel-reinforced concrete or fiberglass
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a cell wall consists of
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a primary cell wall, a middle lamella with sticky poly saccharides that holds cell together and layers of the secondary cell wall
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although animal cells lack cell walls they typically have elborate. . . .
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(ECM) extracellular martirx
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The ECM is made of 3 types of glycoproteins:
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collagen fibers, protegloycans, fibronectin
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as a part of the ECM what is the most abundant glycoprotein
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collagen fibers
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as a part of the ECM what is embedded ina network mesh of modified glycoproteins
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proteoglycans
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as a part of ECM what bind to cell surface receptor proteins such as integrins?
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fibronectin
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as a part of ECM what are cell surface receptor proteins that have two subunits and bind to the ECM on one side and to associated proteins attached to microfilaments on the other?
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integrins
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T/F neighboring cells in tissues do not communicate through direct physical contact
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false
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Animals have three main types of intercellular links:
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junctions, desmosomes, and gap junctions
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what type of intercellular link are membranes of adjacent cells that are fused, forming continuous belts around cells that prevent leakage of extracellular fulid?
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tight junctions
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what type of intercellular link fasten cells togther into strong sheets?
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desmosomes
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what type of intercellular link provides cytoplasmic channels between adjacent cells?
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gap junctions
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