Description : Eukaryotic cells have extensive intracellular membranes, termed the endomembrane system, which divide the cell into structurally and functionally distinct compartments, or organelles. These include the inner cell ... . Name a cellular component whose membrane is not part of the endomembrane system.
Last Answer : Mitochondria; also chloroplasts
Description : Lysosomes arise from, (A) Nucleus (B) Endoplasmic reticulum (C) Golgi apparatus (D) Cell membrane
Last Answer : (C) Golgi apparatus
Description : Why lysosomes are know as ?
Last Answer : the cleaners of the cell waste? Lysosomes make autophagic and heterophagic digestion: autophagic digestion by digesting residual substances from the cellular metabolism; heterophagic digestion by digesting ... material to the exterior. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity: lysosomes
Description : A cell that is missing lysosomes would have difficulty doing what? (A) Digesting food (B) Storing energy (C) Packaging proteins (D) Moving cytoplasm
Last Answer : (A) Digesting food
Description : Which of the following is NOT a membranous organelle? (A) Lysosomes (B) Peroxisomes (C) Centrioles (D) Mitochondria
Last Answer : (C) Centrioles
Description : The site of enzymes directing the metabolic oxidation (respiration), ATP synthesis and considered as power house of cell are (A) Lysosomes (B) Microsomes (C) Mitochondria (D) Golgi apparatus
Last Answer : (C) Mitochondria
Description : If a gene mutation prevents formation of an enzyme normally used by a lysosomes, a disease may result known as (A) Lysosomal abstracted disease (B) Lysosomal secretory disease (C) Lysosomal storage disease (D) All A, B and C
Last Answer : (C) Lysosomal storage disease
Description : What is mass transportation across the cell membrane ?
Last Answer : Mass transportation is the entrance or the exiting of substances in or from the cell engulfed by portions of membrane. The fusion of internal substance-containing membranous vesicles with the cell ... cell after they have been engulfed by projections of the membrane is called endocytosis.
Description : How does the sodium-potassium pump present in the cell membrane work ?
Last Answer : What is the importance of this protein for the cell? The sodium-potassium pump is the transport protein that maintains the concentration gradient of these ions between the intra and the ... maintain the cellular metabolism. Cell Membrane Review - Image Diversity: sodium-potassium pump
Description : What are differentiations of the cell membrane ?
Last Answer : In some types of cells, the cell membrane present differentiations that are necessary for the specific functions of the cells. The main differentiations are the microvilli and the structures for ... tight junctions (zonula occludens), zonula adherens (adherens junctions) and gap junctions.
Description : What are the basic constituents of the cell membrane ?
Last Answer : The cell membrane is formed of lipids, proteins and carbohydrates. The membrane lipids are phospholipids, a special type of lipid to which one extremity a phosphate group is bound thus ... cell membrane. Cell Membrane Review - Image Diversity: phospholipid bilayer membrane proteins glycocalyx
Description : Concerning permeability what type of membrane is the cell membrane ?
Last Answer : The cell membrane is a selectively permeable membrane, i.e., it allows the passage of water and some selected solutes. Cell Membrane Review - Image Diversity: cell membrane
Description : What is a membrane ?
Last Answer : Membrane is any delicate sheet that separates one region from other blocking or permitting (selectively or completely) the passage of substances. The skin, for example, can be considered a membrane ... body; cellophane, used in chemical laboratories to separate solutions, acts as membrane too.
Description : What is the name of the membrane that delimits the nucleus ?
Last Answer : To which component of the cell structure that membrane is contiguous? The nuclear membrane is also called karyotheca. The nuclear membrane is continuous to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane.
Description : What is the difference between plasma membrane and cell wall ?
Last Answer : Plasma membrane and cell wall is not the same thing. Plasma membrane, also called cell membrane, is the outer membrane common to all living cells and it is made of a phospholipid bilayer, ... made of peptidoglycans and other organic substances. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity: cell wall
Description : What are the chemical substances that compose the plasma membrane ?
Last Answer : The main constituents of the plasma membrane are phospholipids, proteins and carbohydrates. The phospholipds, amphipathic molecules, are regularly organized in the membrane according to their polarity: two layers of ... bound to proteins and to phospholipids in the outer face of the membrane.
Description : What is the plasma membrane of the cell ?
Last Answer : What are its main functions? The plasma membrane is the outer membrane of the cell it delimits the cell itself and a cell interior with specific conditions for the cellular function. Since it ... passage of substances inwards or outwards. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity: cell membrane
Description : The electron transport chain within the inner mitochondrial membrane creates a gradient of ____________ across the inner membrane which is utilized to drive the activity of ATP synthase and the generation of ATP.
Last Answer : Hydrogen (H+ ions) or protons
Description : What characteristic of the plasma membrane allows selective molecules to pass through it?
Last Answer : It is semi-permeable.
Description : Peroxisomes and Glyoxisomes are (A) Energy transducers (B) Membrane-less organelles (C) Micro bodies (D) Basal bodies
Last Answer : (C) Micro bodies
Description : The chloroplast develop from (A) ER (B) Golgi complex (C) Nuclear membrane (D) Proplastids
Last Answer : (D) Proplastids
Description : ″Proteins icebergs in a sea of lipids” is stated by (A) Lamellar Model (B) Unit-membrane Model (C) Fluid-Mosaic model (D) Micellar Model
Last Answer : (C) Fluid-Mosaic model
Description : The matrix surrounding the grana in the inner membrane of chloroplasts is (A) Cytosol (B) Frets (C) Stroma (D) Inter-granal lamellae
Last Answer : (C) Stroma
Description : Infoldings of inner membrane in mitochondria are called (A) Grana (B) Thyallkoids (C) Cristae (D) Frets
Last Answer : (C) Cristae
Description : The outer most layer of cell wall is (A) Primary wall (B) Secondary wall (C) Middle lamella (D) Plasma membrane
Last Answer : (C) Middle lamella
Description : Which of the following would you NOT find in a bacterial cell (A) DNA (B) Cell membrane (C) Golgi apparatus (D) Ribosomes
Description : What part of the cell serves as the intracellular highway? (A) Endoplasmic reticulum (B) Golgi apparatus (C) Cell membrane (D) Mitochondria
Last Answer : (A) Endoplasmic reticulum
Description : Which of the following cell part is described as a "fluid mosaic"? (A) Chloroplast (B) Vacuole (C) Cell membrane (D) Endoplasmic reticulum
Last Answer : (C) Cell membrane
Description : Plant cells contain the following 3 things not found in animal cells _________, _____________ and ______________. (A) Plastids / Chlorophyll / Membrane (B) Chloroplast / Cell wall / Golgi body (C) Plastids / Cell wall / Chlorophyll (D) Mitochondria / Cell wall /
Last Answer : (C) Plastids / Cell wall / Chlorophyll
Description : Cells are commonly studied in the lab. If you were examining various unlabelled slides of cells under the microscope, you could tell if the cell was from a plant by the presence of (A) A nucleus (B) A cell membrane (C) Cytoplasm (D) A cell wall
Last Answer : (D) A cell wall
Description : A semi permeable membrane is stretched across a chamber filled with water. The membrane is only permeable to water. 60 mg of salt is added to the left side of the chamber. Which of the following will ... right side (C) Water will move toward the left side (D) salt will move toward the left side
Last Answer : (C) Water will move toward the left side
Description : The door to your house is like the __________________ of a cell membrane? (A) Phospholipid bilayer (B) Integral protein (C) Recognition protein (D) Peripheral protein
Last Answer : (B) Integral protein
Description : The structure within a cell that distinguishes the cell as being eukaryotic, and prokaryotic is (A) Ribosomes (B) Cell membrane (C) Cell wall (D) Nucleus
Last Answer : (D) Nucleus
Description : The intake of solid food by infloding of cell membrane is called (A) Exocytosis (B) Pinocytosis (C) Phagocytosis (D) Both B and C
Last Answer : (C) Phagocytosis
Description : During transcription, do both strands of DNA get transcribed into a double stranded RNA molecule?
Last Answer : No. RNA is single stranded and is transcribed from only one of the DNA strands. DNA replication does make copies of both strands.
Description : The structure of DNA is a double helix formed by two strands of DNA sequence. This sequence consists of 4 different nucleotides- Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine and Guanine. How do the nucleotides on one strand interact with the nucleotides on the second strand to maintain the helical shape of DNA?
Last Answer : Complementary Base Pairing. Adenine complementary base pairs with Thymine and Guanine complementary base pairs with Cytosine.
Description : Cylindrical windings using circular conductors, employed in transformers, are (a) single layered (b) double layered (c) multi-layered (d) none of the above
Last Answer : (c) multi-layered
Description : Which one of the following cell organelles is enclosed by a single membrane? (a) Lysosomes (b) Nuclei (c) Mitochondria (d) Chloroplasts
Last Answer : (a) Lysosomes
Description : What are the three main types of passive transport ?
Last Answer : The three main types of passive transport are simple diffusion, osmosis and facilitated diffusion. Cell Membrane Review - Image Diversity: passive transport
Description : What are the three main parts of a eukaryotic cell ?
Last Answer : The eukaryotic cell can be divided into two main portions: the cell membrane that separates the intracellular space from the outer space phisically delimiting the cell; the cytoplasm, the interior ... and the nucleus, the membrane-delimited internal region that contains the genetic material.
Description : The eukaryotic cell cycle consists of discrete phases. One of these is named the M or mitosis phase during which the cell divides. Following the M phase is a period known as interphase that is made up of three distinct phases. Name, in order, the three separate phases of interphase.
Last Answer : G1, S and G2
Description : List three common second messengers and the enzyme responsible for their production:
Last Answer : - cAMP - synthesized from ATP by adenylate cyclase - diacylglycerol (DAG) and inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (IP3)- produced by the phospholipase C - Ca2+ - released from intracellular stores (the second messenger IP3 is a common trigger for Ca2+ release).
Description : Name three classes of cell surface receptors
Last Answer : G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRS) - ion channel receptors - enzyme-linked receptors (example: receptor tyrosine kinases –RTKs)
Description : Cytoskeletal elements are responsible for giving cells their shape and provide a basis for cell movement, migration, and cell division. Name the three major classes of cytoskeletal elements in eukaryotic cells.
Last Answer : Microtubules (composed of tubulin); actin filaments (made up of actin); intermediate filaments
Description : What are the three major components of glycerophospholipids, the main component of lipid bilayers that comprise cellular membranes?
Last Answer : Glycerol, a phosphate group, fatty acid chains
Description : RNA molecules can be broken up into three classes-which type of RNA molecule is translated into a protein sequence?
Last Answer : Messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNAs are the RNA transcripts that contain protein coding sequences which are translated into protein.
Description : Name the three metabolic processes used to produce energy in a eukaryotic cell when oxygen is present.
Last Answer : Glycolysis, Citric Acid Cycle, Oxidative Phosphorylation. Or glycolysis and respiration, but the question specifies three processes.
Description : The three-dimensional network of protein filaments within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells is called the (A) Endoplasmic reticulum (B) Golgi apparatus (C) Cytoskeleton (D) None of these
Last Answer : (C) Cytoskeleton
Description : In root, the pericycle is (a) Single layered (b) Tow layered (c) Three layered (d) Absent
Last Answer : Ans:(a)
Description : The power house of the cell is (A) Nucleus (B) Cell membrane (C) Mitochondria (D) Lysosomes
Last Answer : C