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The Cell and Cell Processes
Beth
CytologyThe study of the structure and function of cells.
Structures Functions
• Cell Membrane• Cytosol• Cytoskeleton• Microvilli• Cilia• Centrioles• Ribosomes• Mitochondria• Nucleus• Nucleolus• Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum• Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum• Golgi Apparatus• Lysosomes• Peroxisomes• Nuclear Pores
• Isolation and protection• Distributes materials by diffusion• Internal Support• Absorption of extracellular material• Movement of materials over surfaces• Movement of chromosomes during cell division• Protein Synthesis• Produce 95% of the ATP required by the cell• Control of metabolism• Site of RNA synthesis• Secretory protein synthesis• Lipid and carbohydrate synthesis• Storage, alteration, and packaging of secretory products
and lysosomes• Intracellular removal of damaged organelles or pathogens• Neutralization of toxic compounds• Allow the movement of ions and small molecules
Cell Theory1. Cells are the building blocks of all plants and
animals.2. Cells are produced by the division of
preexisting cells.3. Cells are the smallest units that perform all
vital physiological functions.4. Each cell maintains homeostasis at the
cellular level.5. Homeostasis at the tissue, organ, system, and
individual levels reflects the combined and coordinated actions of many cells.
Two most common methods used to study cell and tissue structure: •Light Electron Microscopy
•Scanning Electron Microscopy
Light Microscopy
Can magnify cellular structures about 1,000 times and show details as fine as 0.25 µm (micrometer or micron). With a light microscope one can identify cell types and see large intracellular structures.
Electron Microscopy
Electrons pass through an ultrathin section to strike a photographic plate. Transmission Electron Microscopy shows the fine structure of cell membranes and intracellular structures.
Electrons bouncing off exposed surfaces create a scanning electron micrograph. Although Scanning Electron Microscopy provides less magnification, it provides a three-dimensional perspective on cell structure.
Transmission Electron Microscopy Scanning Electron Microscopy
The Study of Cell Structure
THE CELL
Cytoplasm
Organelles
Membranous Organelles
Non-Membranous Organelles
Cytosol
Cell Membrane
Non-membranous Organelles
• Cytoskeleton• Microvilli• Centrioles• Cilia• Flagella• Ribosomes
Membranous Organelles
• Mitochondria• Nucleus• Endoplasmic
Reticulum• Golgi
Apparatus• Lysosomes• Peroxisomes
The permeability of a membrane is a property that
determines its effectiveness as a barrier.
If nothing can cross a membrane, it is described as
impermeable.
If any substance can cross without difficulty, the
membrane is freely permeable.
Cell membranes fall somewhere in between and are
thus said to be selectively permeable.
The net movement of material from an area where its concentration is relatively high to an area where its concentration is relatively low.
The difference between the high and low concentrations represents a concentration gradient and diffusion takes place until that gradient has been eliminated.
Diffusion
Important factors that influence Diffusion rates:Distance- The
greater the distance, the longer the time required.
Size of Gradient- The larger the concentration gradient, the faster diffusion proceeds.
Molecular Size- Ions and small organic molecules such as glucose diffuse faster than large proteins.
Temperature- The higher the temperature, the faster the diffusion rate.
Diffusion (continued)Three major factors determine whether or
not a substance can diffuse across a cell membrane.
These major factors are lipid solubility, channel size, and electrical interactions.
Osmosis
Three characteristics of osmosis should be remembered:
1. Osmosis is the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.
2. Osmosis occurs across a selectively permeable membrane that is freely permeable to water but not freely permeable to solutes.
3. In osmosis water will flow across a membrane toward the solution that has the highest concentration of solutes, because that is where the concentration of water is lowest.
The movement of water across a semipermeable membrane toward a solution containing a relatively high solute concentration.
Osmosis (continued)Isotonic is one that has the same solute
concentration as does the cytoplasm.
Hypotonic solution has a solute concentration lower than that of the cytoplasm.
Hypertonic solution has a solute concentration higher than that of the cytoplasm.
Facilitated Diffusion
In this process an extracellular molecule, such as
glucose, binds to a receptor site on a carrier protein.
The binding alters
the shape of the
protein, which then
releases the
molecule to diffuse
into the cytoplasm.
Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis
• Resembles pinocytosis, but is far more selective.
• Produces vesicles that contain a specific target molecule in high concentrations.
• Begins when materials in the extracellular fluid bind to receptors on the membrane surface.
Filtration• Movement of water, usually with solute, by
hydrostatic pressure; requires membrane filter.
Phagocytosis
• Produces vesicles containing solid objects that may be as large as the cell itself.
Active Active Transport Endocytosis
• Carrier molecules work regardless of any concentration gradients.
• Creation of vesicles containing fluid or solid material.
Cell Attachments
• Gap Junctions- Two cells are held together by an interlocking of membrane proteins.
• Tight Junctions- Partial fusion of the lipid portions of the two cell membranes.
CELL ATTACHMENTS (CONTINUED)
Intermediate Junctions- The opposing cell membranes, while remaining distinct, are held together by a thick layer of proteoglycans.
Desmosomes- There is a very thin proteoglycan layer between the opposing cell membranes.
Junctional Complexes Hold together the cells
lining passageways such as the digestive tract and respiratory tract.
Interphase
G1 Phase- the cell manufactures enough mitochondria, centrioles, cytoskeleton elements, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, Golgi bodies, and cytosol to make 2 functional cells.
G0 Phase- the cell is not preparing for mitosis.
• S Phase- over the next 6-8 hours the cell duplicates itself.
Interphase(continued)
Gm Phase- begins mitosis.
G2 Phase- the cell does last minute protein synthesis.
MITOSIS4 stages
Begins when the chromosomes coil so tightly that they become visible as individual structures. As a result of DNA replication during the S phase, there are 2 copies of each chromosome, called chromatids, connected at a single point, the centromere.
As the chromosomes appear, the 2 pairs of centrioles move apart. Spindle fibers extend between the centriole pairs; smaller microtubules radiate into the disappearance of the nuclear envelope.
Stage 1:Prophase
The chromatids now move to a narrow central zone called the metaphase plate. A microtubule of the spindle apparatus attaches to each centromere.
Stage 2: Metaphase
As if responding to a single command, the chromatid pairs separate and the
daughter chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the cell.
Stage 3: Anaphase
This stage is in many ways the reverse of prophase, the nuclear membranes form, the nuclei enlarge, and the chromosomes gradually uncoil. Once the chromosomes disappear, nucleoli reappear and the nuclei resemble those of interphase cells.
Stage 4:Telophase
Is the separation of the two daughter cells. It usually begins in late Anaphase and continues through Telophase. The completion of cytokinesis marks the end
of cell division.
Cytokinesis