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What is resolution?
The amount of detail you see
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What is magnification?
How much you enlarge something.
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magnification of light microscope?
1500
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magnification of a transmission electron microscope?
500,000
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magnification of scanning electronmicroscope?
100,000
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What is staining?
A process that helps reveal or distinguish different features
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What is sectioning?
When specimens are embedded in wax so thin sections can be cut without distorting the stucture of the specimen.
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What is the 2 types of cells?
prokaryotic and eukaryotic.
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What is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?
pro- no nucleus, no membrane bound organelles Eu- nucleus, membrane bound organelles
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What is the function of the cytoskelton?
Its a network of protein fiaments running through the c
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What is the cytoskelton made up of?
microtubules, microfilaments and intermediate filaments
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Why do cells need membranes?
separte cell components from outside environment and cytoplasm.
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what is the plasma membrane made up of?
phospholipids
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what transport processes take place in the plasma membrane?
substances move passively ( without energy) such as diffusio. some move actively (uses energy) such as active transport.
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what metabolic processes take place in the plasma membrane
membranes contain enzymes. These enzymes catalyse some of the final stages in the breakdown of some types of sugar.
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what communication processes take place in the plasma membrane
receptors in the cells plasma membrane picks up signals and brings about actions within the cell know as cell signalling.
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What are the key components of the membrane?
cholesterol, glycoproteins, glycolipids, phospholipids, proteins
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function of chloroplasts?
site of photosynthesis
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function of cell wall?
add protection and support
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function of lysosomes?
contain digestive enzymes to digest unwanted particles
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function of centrioles?
take part in cell division
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function of cillia and flagella?
cillia- waft mucus up throat flagella - moving stuff around
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function of vesicles and vacuoles?
stores of water,food or waste materials
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function of nucleus?
controls the cell
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function of ribosomes?
where proteins are synthesised
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function of cell surface membrane?
defines perimeter
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function of mitochondria?
powerhouse of the cell
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function ofgolgi body?
process, package and distribute molecules
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function of endoplasmic reticulum?
collection, storage and distribution
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