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What is passive transport?
Type of transport that does not require energy. The cell membrane only "scans" materials entering the cell.
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What is active transport?
Cell membrane does some type of activity. Energy, usually ATP, is required to move materials across a concentration gradient from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
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What is uniport?
Movement of one solute in a single direction. Uniporters rely on passive transport as they do not need energy to function. Involved in facilitated diffusion can be ion channels or carrier proteins.
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What is symport (cotransport)?
Movement of two solutes in the same direction at the same time (cotransporter) because one cannot enter the cell without the other. Facilitated diffusion coupled with active transport.
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What is antiport (counter-transport)?
Two solutes move in opposite directions; involved in secondary active transport.
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What is endocytosis?
The process by which the cell membrane engulfs a substance from outside the cell.
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What is exocytosis?
The process by which vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane and release their contents to the outside of the cell.
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What is the difference between primary active transport and secondary active transport?
Primary - the energy is derived directly from the breakdown of ATP.
Secondary - energy is derived secondarily from the involves the coupling the molecule with another moving along an electrochemical.
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What is simple diffusion?
The process by which substances pass through the cell membrane without an intermediary / nothing moves along the concentration gradient.
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What is osmosis?
A process by which molecules of a solvent pass through a semi-permeable membrane to an area of higher concentration to achieve equilibrium.
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What is facilitated diffusion?
Passive movement of molecules along the concentration gradient guided by the presence of another molecule, usually the integral protein.
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What is the function of a lysosome?
its digestive enzymes enter the membrane capsule and destroy thus assisting in the process of destroying an old cell
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What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
- Rough ER - flattened sacks with ribosomes which create proteins. also responsible for packaging the proteins. transfers molecules to and from the nucleus.
- Smooth ER - tubular; no ribosomes
- engulfs the material that is to be destroyed in the process of destroying an old cell. storage area for lipids and steroids and releases them when the cell needs them.
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What is the function of the mitochondria?
- capsule, round or oval shape and contain cristae
- produces energy through cellular respiration
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What is the nucleus?
- two membranes perforated by large openings, or nuclear pores
- holds the DNA of the cell
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What is a proteasome?
- a hollow cylinder with regulatory end caps
- ubiquitin-tagged protein molecule unfolds as it enters the cap then breaks down in peptide chains which are then broken down into amino acids that will be recycled by the cell
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What is atrophy?
- shrinking of cells
- as a function of age it will cause wrinkles
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What is hypertrophy?
- swelling of cells
- can potentially cause tumors
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What is hyperplasia?
- larger cells divide and create too many cells
- possibly causing tumors
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What is dysplasia?
abnormal development or expansion of cells in a localized area
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What are the steps of apoptosis?
- enzymes are made to break down cell
- microvilli and cell junctions are lost and nuclear DNA condenses and is broken down
- cell becomes apoptotic bodies and nucleus is fragmented
- apoptotic bodies can then be digested by adjacent cells, extracellular enzymes or nearby phagocytic cells
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What are the nine regions of the abdominopelvic cavity?
left and right hypochondriac regions, epigastric region, left and right lumbar regions, umbilical region, left and right iliac region and hypogastric region
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What is extrisinic regulation?
- inside cells cause external respiration
- organ to organ
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What is intrisinic regulation?
- One cell impacts nearby cells
- within tissues/organs
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What is intracellular regulation?
nearby cells sense apoptosis and secrete necessary enzymes in response to it
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By what process do soma (body) cells divide by?
Mitosis
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What are the steps in mitosis?
- Prophase - chromatin condenses into chromosomes and the nuclear envelope (membrane) breaks down. Animal cells: centrioles move to opposite poles and spindles form.
- Metaphase - spindle fibers attach to centromeres of sister chromatids. sister chromatids line up at the metaphase plate, the center of the cell.
- Anaphase - sister chromatids separate and centromeres divide. by the end of anaphase each pole has its own set of chromosomes.
- Telophase - chromosomes begin to uncoil and form chromatin. spindles break down and new nuclear envelope forms. (preparation to direct metabolic activity for the new cell)
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