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FRESHMEN ACADEMIC  REVIEW

 

I.                     COMPARISON OF PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELL

CHARACTERISTICS

PROKARYOTE

EUKARYOTE

ORGANISMS

BACTERIA AND CYANOBACTERIA

PROTISTS, FUNGI, PLANTS AND ANIMALS

NUCLEAR MEMBRANE

ABSENT

PRESENT

DNA

LOOP OF DNA IN THE CYTOPLASM

THIN, VERY LONG DNA ORGANIZED INTO CHROMOSOMES IN THE NUCLEUS

RNA AND PROTEIN

BITH SYNTHESIZED IN THE SAME COMPARTMENT

RNA SYNTHESIZED IN THE NUCLEUS; PROTIEN SYNTHESIZED IN THE CYTOPLASM

CYTOPLASM

NO CYTOSKELETON; VERY FEW ORGANELLES PRESENT

CYTOSKELETON PRESENT, MANY ORGANELLES PRESENT

CELLULAR ORGTANISM

MANILY CELLULAR

MAINLY MULTICELLULAR WITH DIFFERENTIATION FO CELLS

CELL SIZE

GENERALY 1 TO 10  IN LINEAR DIMENSION

GENERALLY 10 TO 100  IN LINEAR DIMENSION

ORGANELLES

ABSENT

PRESENT

NUCLEUS

W/O NUCLEUS, BUT IT HAS A NUCLEOID-OR ALSO CALLED THE CENTRAL BODY-SPACE OCCUPIED BY ITS GENETIC MATERIALS

TRUE NUCLEUS (CALLED TRUE NUCLEUS BECAUSE ITS GENETIC MATERIALS ARE ENCLOSED BY A NUCLEAR MEMBRANE)

 

II.                    CELL STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION

 

CELL MEMBRANE

CYTOPLASM

NUCLEUS

BY DEFINITION

 

 

FUNCTIONS

PROTECTS AND SURROUNDS THE CYTOPLASM

 

MAJOR FUNCTIONS:

1.SEPARATES THE CONTENTS OF THE CELL FROM ITS EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

 2.REGULATES THE PASSAGE      OF MATERIALS IN AND OUT OF THE CELL

-(SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE)

3.ALLOWS COMMUNICATION

THE REGION WHERE THE MAIN METABOLIC LIFE ACTIVITIES TAKE PLACE

 

RESERVOIR FOR THE ENTRY AND EXIT OF MATERIALS IN

WHERE GENETIC MATERIAL IS LOCATED

 

CONTROL CENTER OF THE CELL’

 

PARTICULARLY FOUND IN ANIMALS

 

COORDINATES AND REGULATES ALL ACTIVITIES OF THE CELL

 

STRUCTURES

HYDROPHILIC HEAD (PHOSPHATE HEAD)

 

HYDROPHOBIC TAIL

(LIPID TAIL)

ORGANELLES

-LIITLE ORGANS; PERFORM SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS

 

1.MITOCHONDRIA

DOUBLE MEMBRANE

(PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER)

 

POWERHOUSE

SITES OF CELLULAR RESPIRATION

BREAKING OF FOOD MOLUECULES TO GENERATE ATP

CRISTAE

MITOCHONDRIA’S INNER MEMBRANE WITH FOLD TO SUPPORT SURFACE AREA FOR GREATER CELLULAR ACTIVITY

 

MATRIX

INNER CAVITY OF THE CRISTAE

 

INTERMEMBRANEOUS SPACE

 THE REGION BETWEEN ITS INNER AND OUTER MEMBRANE

 

 

 

2. RIBOSOMES

SITE FOR PROTEIN SYNTHESIS

THEY RECEIVE CODED MESSAGE FROM DNA AS TO THE KIND OF PROTEIN TO BE SYNTHESIZED OR PRODUCED

BOUND/ ATTACHED

THE ONES ATTACHED TO THE ER

MAKE SECRETORY PROTIENS

 

FREE

PRODUCE PROTEINS LOCALIZED IN THE CYTOSOL

 

3.ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM

COMSISTS OF FLATTENED SHEETS, SACS AND TUBES OF MEMBRANES

 

SMOOTH ER

SITE FOR LIPID SYNTHESIS AND FORMS VESICLES FOR TRANSPORTING LARGE MOLECULES TO OTHER CELL PARTS

 

ROUGH ER

WITH BOUND RIBOSOMES- PROTEIN SYNTHESIS

 

 

 

 

 

4. GOLGI APPARATUS

LOOK LIKE A STACK OF PANCAKES

INVOLVED IN MODIFYBG, SORTING AND PACKAGING MACROMOLECULES FOR SECRETION AND DELIVERY TO OTHER ORGANELLES

 

5.LYSOSOMES

ALSO KNOWN AS ‘DIGESTIVE SACS’, SUICIDE BAGS

 

CONTAINS NUMEROUS HYDROLYTIC OR DIGESTIVE ENZMES FOR THE BREAKDOWN OF MACROMOLECULES WITHIN THE CELL

 

6. PERIXOSOMES

MEMBRANE BOUND VESICLES WHICH CONTAIN OXIDATIVE ENZYMES.

 

THEYT HAVE ENZYMES FOR OXIDIZING CERTAIN MACROMOLECULES RESULTING IN THE FORMATION OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE

 

7. VACUOLES

LARGE MEMBRANEOUS STORAGE SACS

 

THEY VARY IN USES:

IN ANIMAL CELLS:

1.STORAGE FOR WATER AND FOOD

2.FOR EXCRETION OF WASTE MATERIALS

IN PLANT CELLS:

1VERY LARGE, OCCUPYING AROUND 90% OF THE CELL VOLUME

THEY FUNCTION FOR INTRACELLULAR DIGESTION, SPACE FILING AND CONTROL OF VELL TURGOR

 

8. VESICLES

SMALL MEMBRANEOUS STORAGE SACS

 

NBGAGED IN THE TRANSFER OF MATERIALS BETWEEN THE GOLGI APPARATUS AND OTHER STRUCTURES

 

SPECIAL ORGANELLES IN THE CYTOPLASM

1. CENTRIOLE

ACTIVE IN CELL DIVISION

IN ANMAL CELLS

FOUND OUTSIDE THE NUCLEUS

CONSISTS OF 2 ROD SHAPED CENTRIOLES

FORMATION OF SPINDLE FIBERS

2.CYTOSKELETON

FRAMEWORK OF THE CELL

SUPPORTIVE STRUCTUR IN THE FORM OF PROTEIN CALLED  MICROTUBULES

AND MICROFILAMENTS

3.PLASTIDS

COLORED PIGMENTS IN THE FORM OF GRANULES

CLASSIFIED INTO CHLOROPLASTS(GREEN COLORED PIGMENTS, SITE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS), CHROMOPLASTS(COLORES PIGMENTS OTHER THEN GREEN TO SYNTHESIZE AND STORE CAROTENOID PIGMENTS) AND LEUCOPLASTS(COLORLESS PLASTIDS, MAY CONTAIN STORED FOOD)

 

 

A NUCEAR MEMBRANE SEPARATES THE KARYOPLASM FROM THE CYTOPLA,SM DOUBLE MEMBRANE WITH NUCELAR PORES

 

 

NUCLEOPLASM/ KARYOPLASM/NUCLEAR SAP

THE SEMI FLUID PRESENT  INSIDE THE NUCLEUS

 

 

 

 

NUCLEOLUS

COMPOSED OF RNA AND PROTEIN MOLECULES.

IT IS ALSO THE SITE WHERE THE SUBUNITS OF RIBOSOMES ARE FORMED

 

CHROMATIN

COMPOSED OF DNA AND PROTEIN MOLECULES

 

DURING CELL DIVISION, IT COILS AND BECOMES ROD SHAPED STRUCTURES CALLED CHROMOSOMES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III.                  CELL TRANSPORT

PASSIVE TRANSPORT (NO ENERGY REQUIRED FOR TRANSPORTATION)

ACTIVE TRANSPORT (INVOLVES CARRIER PROTEINS)

DIFFUSION MOVEMENT BASED ON CONCENTRATION GRADIENT; HIGHER TO LOWER CONCENTRATION)

 1.A OSMOSIS (MOVEMENT OF WATER/SOLVENT BASED     ON CONCENTRATED GRADIENT; LOWER TO HIGHER)

*CRENATION( CELL SHRINKING) AND LYSIS(CELL BURSTING)

*HYPOTONIC, ISOTONIC AND HYPERTONIC ; OSMOSIS IN LIVING CELLS

 

OUTSIDE

INSIDE

MOV’T

EFFECT

HYPO

10-69ML

70%

INS-OUT

BURST

ISO

70ML

70%

EQUAL

NO EFFECT

HYPER

70&UP

70%

OUT-IN

SHRINK

1.B FACILITATED DIFFUSION/CARRIER ASSISTED TRANSPORT

THERES A FACILITATOR/ ASSISSTANCE BY PROTEINS FOR FASTER DIFFUSION

-EG OF SUBSTANCES WHICH ARE COMMONLY TRANSPORTED INTO THE CELLS ARE GLUCOSE, GLYCEROL, LIPIDS AND UREA

 

1. EXOCYTOSIS(MOVEMENT OUT)

2. ENDOCYTOSIS(MOVEMENT TOWARD)

         2.A PHAGOCYTOSIS(CELL EATING)

         2.B PINOCYTOSIS (CELL DRINKING, TAKING IN  

                                        FLUIDS BY CELL)                    

 

 


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