ANATOMY 260 CORE MAIN ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔parietal membrane - ✔✔The membrane nearest the wall of the body (farthest from
the organs)
✔✔visceral membrane - ✔✔The membrane farthest from the wall of the body (nearest
the organs)
✔✔Double-layered membrane - ✔✔Each cavity consists of a double-layered membrane
✔✔Thoratic cavity consists of - ✔✔Pleural cavity: lungs
Pericardial cavity: heart
Mediastinal cavity: space between the apex of the lungs
✔✔Abdominopelvic cavity consists of - ✔✔Peritoneal cavity: stomach, intestines,
spleen,
liver, etc.
Pelvic cavity: urinary bladder
✔✔Two types of cells in the body - ✔✔Sex cells & somatic cells
✔✔Sex cells - ✔✔Sperm in males and oocytes in females
✔✔Somatic cells - ✔✔All the other cells in the body that are not sex cells
✔✔Cells consist of - ✔✔Cytoplasm
Cytosol
Organelles
Plasmalemma
Cell membrane
✔✔all structure inside of cell membrane (plasmalemma) is called cytoplasm - ✔✔
, ✔✔Two types of organelles - ✔✔Nonmembranous organelles
Membranous organelles
✔✔Nonmembranous Organelles - ✔✔Cytoskeleton
Microvilli
Centrioles
Cilia
Flagella
Ribosomes
✔✔Membranous Organelles - ✔✔Mitochondria
Nucleus
Endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi apparatus
Lysosomes
Peroxisomes
✔✔Plasmalemma / cell membrane - ✔✔Phospholipids
Glycolipids
Protein
Cholesterol
✔✔Cell membrane (phospholipid bilayer) - ✔✔Regulation of exchange with the
environment (permeability)
Cell-to-cell
communication/Adhesion/Structural support
Physical isolation ("fats and water don't mix")
✔✔Physical isolation - ✔✔Separates the fluid environment inside the cell (Intracellular
Fluid or ICF) from the environment outside the cell (Extracellular Fluid or ECF)
✔✔Membrane Permeability of the Plasmalemma - ✔✔passive and active processes
✔✔Passive processes - ✔✔Diffusion
Osmosis
✔✔Active processes - ✔✔Active transport
Endocytosis
Exocytosis
✔✔Diffusion - ✔✔moving from area of high concentration to an area of low
concentration (from high to low is the flow)
✔✔Endocytosis - ✔✔(bringing into itself) membrane creates a bulge in the membrane
and releases in
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔parietal membrane - ✔✔The membrane nearest the wall of the body (farthest from
the organs)
✔✔visceral membrane - ✔✔The membrane farthest from the wall of the body (nearest
the organs)
✔✔Double-layered membrane - ✔✔Each cavity consists of a double-layered membrane
✔✔Thoratic cavity consists of - ✔✔Pleural cavity: lungs
Pericardial cavity: heart
Mediastinal cavity: space between the apex of the lungs
✔✔Abdominopelvic cavity consists of - ✔✔Peritoneal cavity: stomach, intestines,
spleen,
liver, etc.
Pelvic cavity: urinary bladder
✔✔Two types of cells in the body - ✔✔Sex cells & somatic cells
✔✔Sex cells - ✔✔Sperm in males and oocytes in females
✔✔Somatic cells - ✔✔All the other cells in the body that are not sex cells
✔✔Cells consist of - ✔✔Cytoplasm
Cytosol
Organelles
Plasmalemma
Cell membrane
✔✔all structure inside of cell membrane (plasmalemma) is called cytoplasm - ✔✔
, ✔✔Two types of organelles - ✔✔Nonmembranous organelles
Membranous organelles
✔✔Nonmembranous Organelles - ✔✔Cytoskeleton
Microvilli
Centrioles
Cilia
Flagella
Ribosomes
✔✔Membranous Organelles - ✔✔Mitochondria
Nucleus
Endoplasmic reticulum
Golgi apparatus
Lysosomes
Peroxisomes
✔✔Plasmalemma / cell membrane - ✔✔Phospholipids
Glycolipids
Protein
Cholesterol
✔✔Cell membrane (phospholipid bilayer) - ✔✔Regulation of exchange with the
environment (permeability)
Cell-to-cell
communication/Adhesion/Structural support
Physical isolation ("fats and water don't mix")
✔✔Physical isolation - ✔✔Separates the fluid environment inside the cell (Intracellular
Fluid or ICF) from the environment outside the cell (Extracellular Fluid or ECF)
✔✔Membrane Permeability of the Plasmalemma - ✔✔passive and active processes
✔✔Passive processes - ✔✔Diffusion
Osmosis
✔✔Active processes - ✔✔Active transport
Endocytosis
Exocytosis
✔✔Diffusion - ✔✔moving from area of high concentration to an area of low
concentration (from high to low is the flow)
✔✔Endocytosis - ✔✔(bringing into itself) membrane creates a bulge in the membrane
and releases in
