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the Cell

1)  light microscopy allows one to view dynamic processes in living cells.

2)  bacteria

3) an endoplasmic reticulum.

4)  plant cells contain a large vacuole that reduces the volume of the cytoplasm.

5) The lack of organelles in prokaryotes means that the basic cellular functions are different in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes.

6)  A

7)  D

8)  B

9)  a nucleolus

10) proteins

11) ribosomal RNA , messenger RNA , proteins synthesized in the cytoplasm that are part of ribosomes

12) endoplasmic reticulum

13)  a cell that is producing cytoplasmic enzymes

14)  smooth endoplasmic reticulum

15)  rough ER

16) rough ER → vesicles → Golgi → plasma membrane

17)  lysosome

18)  lysosome

 19)  Proteins that are excreted by prokaryotes are synthesized on ribosomes that are bound to the cytoplasmic surface of the plasma membrane.

20) D

21)  A

22)  A

23) C

24C

 25) B

26) E

27) B

28)  ATP is produced. DNA is present. Ribosomes are present.

29)  chloroplasts.

30)  mitochondria. chloroplasts.

31)  on the plasma membrane

32)  chloroplasts

33)  a plant or an animal.

34)  to maintain a critical limit on cell size

35)  cytoskeletons

36) cilia flagella

37)  centriole

38) ameboid movement formation of cleavage furrows contracting of muscle cells

39)  integrins.

40) gap junctions

41)  gap junctions.

42)  Pili

43)  transferring of information from DNA to messenger RNA

44)  Chromatin

45)  smooth endoplasmic reticulum

46)  central vacuole

47)  chloroplast

48) phagocytic white blood cell

 

 

Membranes

54)  nucleic acids.

55)  enables the membrane to stay fluid more easily when cell temperature drops.

56) lack of covalent bonds between the lipid and protein components of the membrane, . , weak hydrophobic interactions among  the components in the interior of the membrane. ,the presence of liquid water in the interior of the membrane.

57) by increasing the percentage of unsaturated phospholipids in the membrane

58)  amphipathic.

59) integral proteins.

60)  protein synthesis.

 61) The double bonds form a kink in the fatty acid tail, forcing adjacent lipids to be further apart.

62)  They are usually transmembrane proteins.

63)  a cell's ability to distinguish one type of neighboring cell from another

64)  maintains membrane fluidity

65)  glycoproteins

66)  cell-cell recognition

67)  fibers of the extracellular matrix

68)  small and hydrophobic

69)  It exhibits a specificity for a particular type of molecule.

70) the integrity of the lipid bilayer is broken when the membrane freezes.

71)  CO2

72)  the type of transport proteins that are present in the membrane ,the lipid bilayer being permeable to primarily small, nonpolar molecules

73)  It is a passive process in which molecules move from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

74)  it moves through aquaporins in the membrane.

75) The patient's red blood cells will swell because the blood fluid is hypotonic compared to the cells.

76)  facilitated diffusion.

 77)  integral proteins

78) active transport.

79)  active transport.

80)  facilitated diffusion moves substances down their concentration gradient and active transport moves them against their gradient.

facilitated diffusion does not rely on cellular energy and active transport does.

facilitated diffusion uses channel or carrier proteins and active transport does not.

81)  membrane potential

82) contributes to the membrane potential.

83) Sodium ions can move down their electrochemical gradient through the cotransporter whether or not glucose is present outside the cell.  

84)  an energy source such as ATP or a proton gradient.

85)  electrochemical gradients.

86)  Sodium ions are pumped out of a cell against their gradient. ,Potassium ions are pumped into a cell against their gradient. , The pump protein undergoes a conformational change.

87)  an electrogenic pump , a proton pump , a contransport protein

88)  It will be on the cytoplasmic side of the ER.

89)  The types of proteins that are exposed on one side of a membrane are nearly identical to those exposed on the other side of the membrane.

90)  exocytosis.

91)  phagocytosis

92) phagocytosis.

93)  phagocytosis

94)  defective LDL receptors on the cell membranes  

95)  the production of cell walls by plant cells.

96) pinocytosis brings only water into the cell, but receptor-mediated endocytosis brings in other molecules as well.

97) hydrophobic.

98) passive transport.

99) lyse.

100)  into; membranous vesicles

101)  receptor-mediated endocytosis.

102)  Certain proteins are unique to each membrane.

103)  embedded in a lipid bilayer.

104)  a greater proportion of unsaturated phospholipids