Description : Adjacent plant cells are “cemented” together by (A) Their primary walls (B) Their secondary walls (C) A middle lamella (D) Plasmodesmata
Last Answer : (C) A middle lamella
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 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 : Are plasma membranes the outer boundaries of all cells?
Last Answer : No, in many cells the plasma membrane is encased within an extraneous coat of nonliving material that usually confers some rigidity on the cell it surrounds. Although not affecting permeability, this ... of this structure is not completely clear. In Euglena, it consists of flexible protein strips.
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 : 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 : 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 characteristic of the plasma membrane allows selective molecules to pass through it?
Last Answer : It is semi-permeable.
Description : What is middle lamella of cell wall? -Biology
Last Answer : answer:
Description : What are the primary and the secondary constrictions of a chromosome ?
Last Answer : What is the other name given to the secondary constriction? Primary constriction is the narrower region of a condensed chromosome where the centromere, the structure that unites identical chromatids, is located. ... can be one or more in chromosome) is called nucleolus organizer region (NOR).
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : Do membranes form only the outer wrapping of cells ?
Last Answer : Lipid membranes do not form only the outer cover of cells. Cell organelles, such as the Golgi complex, mitochondria, chloroplasts, lysosomes, the endoplasmic reticula and the nucleus, are delimited by membranes too. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity: cell nucleus
Description : How does the plant cell wall react when it is placed under hypotonic medium ?
Last Answer : The plant cell wall (the covering of the cell external to the cell membrane) is made of cellulose, a polymer of glucose. When the cell is put under hypotonic medium it absorbs too ... compensate the osmotic pressure thus forbiding excessive increase of the cellular volume and the cell lysis.
Description : What is the function of the plant cell wall ?
Last Answer : The plant cell wall has structural and protective functions. It plays important role in the constraint of the cell size, preventing the cell to break when it absorbs much water.
Description : what substance the plant cell wall is made ?
Last Answer : Is that substance a polymer made of which monomer? The plant cell wall is made of cellulose. Cellulose is a polymer whose monomer is glucose. There are other polymers of glucose, like glycogen and starch. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity: plant cell wall
Description : Which of the following organelles or structures is found in both plant and animal cells? (A) Central vacuole (B) Tonoplast (C) Cell wall (D) Peroxisomes
Last Answer : (D) Peroxisomes
Description : Plant cell wall (A) Provide rigidity to the cell (B) Maintains cell shape (C) Prevents expansion of cell (D) All A, B and C
Last Answer : (D) All A, B and C
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lysosomes have (A) Single-layered membrane (B) Double-layered membrane (C) Three-layered membrane (D) No membrane
Last Answer : (A) Single-layered membrane
Description : What is the importance of Calcium Pectate in the middle lamella of a plant cell? -Biology
Description : In fluid mosaic model of plasma membrane (a) upper layer is non-polar and hydrophilic (b) upper layer is polar and hydrophobic (c) phospholipids form a bimolecular layer in middle part (d) proteins form a middle layer.
Last Answer : (c) phospholipids form a bimolecular layer in middle part
Description : What is the wall resistance of plant cells ?
Last Answer : Does this resistance facilitate or make it difficult the entrance of water in the cell? Wall resistance, or turgor pressure (TP), is the pressure made by the distension of the plant cell wall in ... it acts forcing the exiting of water and compensating the entrance of the solvent by osmosis.
Description : RNA transcription is more complex in eukaryotes because it is first made as a primary RNA transcript that contains intron and exon sequences. What kind of modification must occur to produce a mature mRNA?
Last Answer : RNA splicing. Introns must be removed and exons are spliced together to form a mature RNA transcript.
Description : The unifying feature of the archaea that distinguishes them from the bacteria is A- habitats which are extreme environments with regard to acidity B- absence of a nuclear membrane temperature ... of a cell wall containing a characteristic outer membrane D- cytoplasmic ribosomes that are 70S
Last Answer : absence of a nuclear membrane temperature
Description : What is the function of the middle lamella? -Biology
Description : What is middle lamella? -Biology
Description : Middle lamella is composed mainly of :
Last Answer : Middle lamella is composed mainly of : A. Phosphoglycerides B. Hemicellulose C. Muramic acid D. Calcium pectate
Description : Element necessary for the middle lamella is (a) Ca (b) Zn (c) K (d) Cu.
Last Answer : (a) Ca
Description : Middle lamella is composed mainly of (a) muramic acid (b) calcium pectate (c) phosphoglycerides (d) hemicellulose.
Last Answer : (b) calcium pectate
Description : There are two properties of the cell necessary to maintain nonequilibrium cellular composition; the first is selectivity and the second is energy conversion. Which of the following statement(s ... transported via secondary active transport include hydrogen ions, calcium, amino acids and glucose
Last Answer : Answer: c, d The selectivity of the plasma membrane, although impressive, cannot account for the nonequilibrium composition of living cells. A cell can be maintained in a nonequilibrium state only by ... to drive the transport of a second species such as protons, calcium, amino acids, or glucose