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Cell Structure &
Function
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Robert Hooke-1665
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Robert Brown -1831
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Cells are unit of biological structure
Mattias Schleiden – ca. 1850
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Discovered the "nucleus"
Theodor Schwann - 1838
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Coined the word “cell”
Looked at cork cells
Cells are the fundamental basis of life
Virchow -1858
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All cells come from cells
1.
2.
3.
Every living organism is made up of at
least one cell.
Cells are the basic structural and
functional units of mulicultural organisms.
All cells arise from preexisting cells.
100 m
10 cm
1 cm
1 mm
100 m
10 m
1 m
10 nm
1 nm
0.1 nm
Special
E.M.
100 nm
Mitochondrion
Light Microscope
Electron
Microscope
1m
Eukaryotic Cells
Unaided eye
10 m
Virus
Proteins
Atoms
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Prokaryotic:
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Smaller, 1—5 µm
No organelles
No nucleus
DNA in circular loop
Eukaryotic:
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Larger, 8—100 µm
Membranous organelles
Nucleus
DNA in linear chromosomes
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All cells possess a plasma membrane,
cytoplasm, genetic material
Plasma membrane has phospholipid bilayer,
embedded glycoproteins
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Isolates cytoplasm from environment
Regulates molecular movement into and out of
cell
Interacts with other cells/environment
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Genetic material - DNA, found in the nucleus
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Cytoplasm
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Cytosol (the fluid part)
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Water
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Salts
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Organic monomers and polymers
Organelles
Animal
Cell
Centrioles
Chloroplasts
Mitochondria
Golgi
Nucleus
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
Plant
Cell
Animal
Cell
Nucleolus
Ribosomes
Central Vacuole
Smooth E.R.
Cell Wall
Plant
Cell
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Protein fibers
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Give Cell shape; networks of intermediate
filaments
Help Cell movement; microfilaments &
microtubules
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Organelle movement & suspension
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Amoeboid movement
Muscle contraction
Cell migration during development
Cyclosis; pathways for vesicle migration
Cell division
Plasma
Membrane
Actin subunits
Microfilaments
Intermediate
Filaments
Mitochondrion
Microtubule
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
Tubulin subunits
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Tubular extensions of plasma membrane
Movement of fluid, or locomotion
Two functionally different types
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Cilia: numerous, paddle-like, synchronized
Flagella: longer, fewer, more whip-like
Filled with microtubules
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9 pairs in periphery; 2 singlets in center
“9+2” arrangement (for eukaryotes)
X.S.
2
1
“Sheath”
T.E.M.
3
Paramecium
4
T.E.M.
Shaft
Cell
Membrane
Base
(a Centriole)
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X.S.
Shaft,
x.s.
Cell Membrane
Microtubule Doublets
Dynein Arms
Central Singlets
Microtubule Triplets
Basal Body,
x.s.
Basal Body
Water
Water
Corkscrew Movement Whipping Movement
(Pulls)
(Pushes)
Scanning E.M.
of sperm on egg
Power Stroke
Water
Recovery Stroke
Scanning E.M.
of a ciliate
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Cell control and genetics
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Seen Genes in thread-like chromosomes
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Control production of all proteins
Bounded by nuclear envelope
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Made up of Double lipid bilayer
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Pores regulate transport
Not always at center of cell
Nucleolus
Pores
Chromatin Threads
(Chromosomes)
Nuclear
Envelope
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Chromatin – DNA not coiled up into a
chromosome
Chromosome – DNA coils around proteins
called histones to create linear chromosomes
Contains nucleolus of RNA
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Site of ribosome assembly
Plasma
Membrane
Nuclear
Pores
Nucleus
Nucleus
Nucleoli
Cell Wall
Chromosomes
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-made of RNA and protein
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Site of protein synthesis
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Dark granules, (usually drawn as small
circles)
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Folded membranes attached to nucleus
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Rough ER - protein synthesis
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Ribosomes chain amino acids into polypeptide
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Ribosomes on outside surface of rough ER
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Composed of rRNA and proteins
Smooth ER
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Lipid synthesis
Unit
Membrane
Ribosomes
Vesicles
forming
Ribosomes
Smooth ER
Rough ER
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Processes material synthesized by ER
Packages material and provides “address
label”
Distributes material in sacs called vesicles
Some for inside, others outside cell
Secretory vesicles merge with cell
membrane
Synthesis and transport of polysaccharides
Material Received
From ER
Material Destined
for Export
TEM
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Produced by Golgi apparatus
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Vesicles containing hydrolytic enzymes
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Digestive system of cell
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Digest material engulfed by cell
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Digest and recycle damaged organelles
Lysosome
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
Destined for
Export
Golgi
Destined for
Golgi
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Special kidney-like organelle
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Draws water in from cytoplasm & expels it
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Important for some single-celled freshwater
animals
Requires ATP
Paramecium sp.
Expanded
with Water
1
2
Expelling Water
to Outside
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Large, water-filled spaces (cell sap)
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Can take up over 90% of cell volume
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Surrounded by tonoplast (single membrane)
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Functions:
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Storage of pigments (red/blue), acids, salts,
wastes
Maintain cell pressure (turgor pressure)
Cytoplasm
Normal
Plant Cell
In Salt
Water
Normal
In Salt Water
Vacuole
Space between Cell Wall
Cell
Wall
(tonoplast)
and Cell Membrane
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“Powerhouse” of cell
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Numerous
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Glucose catabolism
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Bounded by double membrane
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Matrix / cristae
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Have their own DNA and ribosomes; selfreplicating
Outer
Membrane
Inner
Membrane
Cristae
Matrix
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Green plants only
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Captures light energy
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Produces carbohydrate from CO2 and H2O
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In cytoplasm of mostly mesophyll cells of leaf
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Stroma / grana (thylakoid stacks)
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Have their own DNA and ribosomes; selfreplicating
One Granum
Outer
Membrane
Stroma
Thylakoids
Inner
Membrane
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Associated w/photosynthesis
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Double bilipid membrane
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Many functions
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Chloroplasts
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Storage of pigments
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Storage of photosynthetic products
Double
Bilipid
Membrane
Starch
Granules
Nucleoid DNA
Plasmid DNA
Cytosol
Flagellum
Capsule
Plasma
Membrane
Cell Wall
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Small (<5 mircometers)
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Cytosol, DNA, ribosomes, cell membrane,
(usually a cell wall too)
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Nucleoid – location of chromosome
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Single, circular chromosome
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Plasmid – small DNA ring, separate from
nucleoid
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Flagella with a 9+0 structure (never cillia)
Capsule/slime layer – polysaccharide
coatings for protection
Pili – protein jutting out from cell wall
The end
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