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chapt3 review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the smallest unit capable of life by itself is | the cell |
| the major types of lipid found in the plasma membranes are | cholesterol and phospholipids |
| membrane junctions that allow nutrients or ions to flow from cell to cell are | gap junctions |
| the term used to describe the type of solution in which cells will lose water to their environment is | hypertonic |
| osmosis always involves | selectively permeable membrane, a difference in solvent concentration and diffusion (abc) |
| psychologist observes that the concentration of sodium inside a cell is decidedly lower than that outside of cell.what cellular function tht is lacking in dead ells explains the difference? | active transport (solute pumping) |
| the solute-pumping type of active transport is accomplished by | changes in shape and position of carrier molecules in the plasma membrane |
| endocytotic process in which a sampling of particulate matter is engulfed and brought into the cell is called | phagocytosis |
| which is not true of centrioles? | they are membrane walled barrels lying parallel to each other |
| nuclear substance composed of histone proteins and DNA is | chromatin |
| information sequence that determines the nature of a protein is the | gene |
| mutations may be caused by | all of these |
| pahse of mitosis during which centrioles reach the poles and chromosomes attach to the spindle is | prophase |
| final preparations for cell division are made during the life cycle subphase called | g2 |
| a nerve cell and a lymphocyte are presumed to differ in their | specialized structure and suppressed enes and embryonic history |
| a pancreas cell makes proteins which it releases to the small intestine. which of the following best describes the path of these proteins from synthesis to exocytosis at the pancreatic cell;s plasma membrane (PM) | rough ER-Golgi-PM |