Description : The latest model for plasma membrane is (a) lamellar model (b) unit membrane model (c) fluid mosaic model (d) molecular lipid model.
Last Answer : (c) fluid mosaic model
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 : Which of the following features is predicted by the Nicolson–Singer fluid mosaic model of biological membranes? (A) Membrane lipids do not diffuse laterally (B) Membrane lipid is primarily in a monolayer form (C) Membrane lipids freely flip-flop (D) Membrane proteins may diffuse laterally
Last Answer : Answer : D
Description : According to widely accepted fluid mosaic model cell membranes are semi-fluid, where lipids and integral proteins can diffuse randomly. In recent years, this model has been modified in several ... domains of the membrane. (d) Many proteins remain completely embedded within the lipid bilayer.
Last Answer : (b) Proteins can also undergo flip-flop movements in the lipid bilayer.
Description : Keeping in view the fluid mosaic model' for the structure of cell membrane, which one of the following statement is correct with respect to the movements of lipids and proteins from one lipid ... ) Both lipids and proteins can flip-flop (d) While lipids can rarely flip-flop, proteins cannot.
Last Answer : (d) While lipids can rarely flip-flop, proteins cannot.
Description : Select the correct statement from the following regarding cell membrane. (a) Na+ and K+ ions move across cell membrane by passive transport. (b) Proteins make up 60 to 70% of the cell ... towards the inner part. (d) Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane was proposed by Singer and Nicolson
Last Answer : (d) Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane was proposed by Singer and Nicolson.
Description : Select the correct statement from the following regarding cell membrane (1) Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane was proposed by Singer and Nicolson (2) Na+ and K+ ions move across cell membrane by ... of the cell membrane (4) Lipids are arranged in a bilayer with polar heads towards the inner part
Last Answer : (1) Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane was proposed by Singer and Nicolson
Description : What is the function of the fluid mosaic model of a cell membrane? -Biology
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Description : Keeping in view the fluid mosaic model for the stucture of cell membrane, which one of the following statements is correct with respect to the movemen
Last Answer : Keeping in view the fluid mosaic model for the stucture of cell membrane, which one of the ... While lipids can rarely flip-flop,proteins can not
Description : Explain the structure of plasma membrane on the basis of Fluid mosaic model.
Last Answer : Explain the structure of plasma membrane on the basis of Fluid mosaic model.
Description : According to fluid mosaic model, plasma membrane is composed of (a) phospholipids and oligosaccharides (b) phospholipids and hemicellulose (c) phospholipids and integral proteins (d) phospholipids, extrinsic proteins and intrinsic proteins.
Last Answer : (d) phospholipids, extrinsic proteins and intrinsic proteins.
Description : Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane was put forward by (a) Danielli and Davson (b) Singer and Nicolson (c) Garner and Allard (d) Watson and Crick.
Last Answer : (b) Singer and Nicolson
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 : Describe Plasma membrane with reference to Fluid Mosaic model.
Last Answer : Ans: Fluid Mosaic model was proposed by Singer and Nicholson. This model states that plasma membrane is semi-solid. It has bimolecular fluid like lipid zone in which the solid like proteins are ... ). This model best explains the functions of plasma membrane. Hence it is most acceptable model.
Description : Name the organelle that contains high levels of hydrolases and is responsible for digestion of proteins, sugars, nucleic acids and lipids.
Last Answer : Lysosomes
Description : Biochemically the ribosome consists of _______________ and some 50 structural . (A) mRNA, Carbohydrates (B) tRNA, lipids (C) mRNA, Proteins (D) rRNA, Proteins
Last Answer : (D) rRNA, Proteins
Description : Which of the following correctly matches an organelle with its function? (A) Mitochondrion . . . photosynthesis (B) Nucleus . . . cellular respiration (C) Ribosome . . . manufacture of lipids (D) Central vacuole . . . storage
Last Answer : (D) Central vacuole . . . storage
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 : 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 : 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 : Lysosomes arise from, (A) Nucleus (B) Endoplasmic reticulum (C) Golgi apparatus (D) Cell membrane
Last Answer : (C) Golgi apparatus
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 : 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 : Lysosomes have (A) Single-layered membrane (B) Double-layered membrane (C) Three-layered membrane (D) No membrane
Last Answer : (A) Single-layered membrane
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 : How is the fluid that fills the nucleus called ?
Last Answer : The aqueous fluid that fills the nuclear region is called karyolymph, or nucleoplasm. In the fluid there are proteins, enzymes and other important substances for the nuclear metabolism.
Description : Name the scientist who proposed fluid mosaic model. -Biology
Description : What is fluid mosaic model? -Biology
Description : What is The fluid mosaic model describes the .?
Last Answer : The cell membrane.
Description : Q. What are the characteristics of fluid mosaic model?
Last Answer : A. Membrane is composed of lipid bilayer. Phospholipids are arranged in bilayers with a hydrophobic core