1. What is the smallest functional unit capable of carrying out life processes?
a. Cell
2. What are the three main components of a cell?
a. Plasma membrane
b. Cytoplasm
c. Nucleus
3. WHat is the largest organelle in the cell?
a. Nucleus
4. What makes up the plasma membrane?
a. Phospholipid bilayer, cholesterol, glycolipids
5. What does cholesterol do in the cell membrane?
a. Provide structure, make heat resistant
6. What do glycolipids do in the cell membrane?
a. Cell signal (license plate of cell), extend out of surface
7. What are the arrangement types of plasma membrane proteins?
a. Integral, peripheral, glycoproteins, glycocalyx
8. What do membrane proteins do?
a. Transport charged or polar chemicals across membrane (pumps)
9. What do transport proteins do?
a. Change shape to bring in molecules
b. Large molecules brought in with vesicles that combine with membrane
10. What are the functions of the plasma membrane?
a. Transport, communication, enzymatic reactions, cell identification, and cell
junctions
11. What is the liquid fluid of the cytoplasma?
a. Cytosol
12. Cytosol makes up how much of the cell volume?
a. 55%
13. What is cytosol composed of?
a. Mostly water
b. Ions
c. Glucose
d. Amino acids
e. Fatty acids
f. Proteins
14. Where do all chemical reactions take place?
a. Within the cytosol and cytoplasm
15. What are organelles?
a. Tiny specialized structures within cytoplasm that have characteristic shapes and
functions
16. What do ribosomes do?
a. Make protein (site of protein synthesis)
17. What do ribosomes have a high content of?
a. rRNA
a. Cell
2. What are the three main components of a cell?
a. Plasma membrane
b. Cytoplasm
c. Nucleus
3. WHat is the largest organelle in the cell?
a. Nucleus
4. What makes up the plasma membrane?
a. Phospholipid bilayer, cholesterol, glycolipids
5. What does cholesterol do in the cell membrane?
a. Provide structure, make heat resistant
6. What do glycolipids do in the cell membrane?
a. Cell signal (license plate of cell), extend out of surface
7. What are the arrangement types of plasma membrane proteins?
a. Integral, peripheral, glycoproteins, glycocalyx
8. What do membrane proteins do?
a. Transport charged or polar chemicals across membrane (pumps)
9. What do transport proteins do?
a. Change shape to bring in molecules
b. Large molecules brought in with vesicles that combine with membrane
10. What are the functions of the plasma membrane?
a. Transport, communication, enzymatic reactions, cell identification, and cell
junctions
11. What is the liquid fluid of the cytoplasma?
a. Cytosol
12. Cytosol makes up how much of the cell volume?
a. 55%
13. What is cytosol composed of?
a. Mostly water
b. Ions
c. Glucose
d. Amino acids
e. Fatty acids
f. Proteins
14. Where do all chemical reactions take place?
a. Within the cytosol and cytoplasm
15. What are organelles?
a. Tiny specialized structures within cytoplasm that have characteristic shapes and
functions
16. What do ribosomes do?
a. Make protein (site of protein synthesis)
17. What do ribosomes have a high content of?
a. rRNA
