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The Cell
Organelles
Channels
Receptors
Markers
Adhesion to each other and extracellular matrix
Plasma membrane
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Nuclear envelope
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Largest organelle
First described by Robert Brown in 1831
Contains hereditary apparatus (chromosomes)
submerged in nucleoplasm
Enveloped by double membrane called nuclear
envelope (double membrane
does NOT mean bilayer, it
means TWO bilayers!!!)
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Nuclear envelope
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Outer membrane
Inner membrane
Nuclear pores
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Nucleolus
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Little net
Network of interconnected,
closed membrane vesicles
Single membrane
Divides a cell into
compartments
Place of protein and
phospholipid synthesis
Connected with the nuclear
envelope!
Rough ER
Smooth ER
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No attached ribosomes
Anchoring place for enzymes
Site of fatty acid and phospholipid synthesis
Ca2+ storage (intracellular Ca2+ stores)
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Process
Package
Distribute molecules synthesized
in the cell
Single membrane
Golgi complex
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Digestive organelles
Responsible for degrading
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Lysosomes
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Lysosomes
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Peroxisomes
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Place of oxidative
metabolism and ATP
production
Tubular sausage-shaped
organelles enveloped by
double membrane
Contains its own DNA and
ribosomes
Mitochondria
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Matrix
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Outer membrane
Inner membrane
Intermembrane space
All enzymes for Krebs
cycle
mtDNA and ribosomes
Circular molecule
Encodes mitochondrial rRNAs and 22 tRNAs
Contains no introns and no long noncoding
sequences
The products of mitochondrial genes are not
exported
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Cytosol (cytoplasm)
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All organelles
Cytoskeleton
Ribosomes
Metabolic enzymes