Cell Membrane
Another name for the cell membrane, generalized.
What is the plasma membrane?
The Mitochondria is famously known as this.
This molecule inside the nucleus contains the instructions for how cells function.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA?
The cellular organelle that directly relates to the endosymbiotic theory.
What is the mitochondria and/or chloroplasts?
A medicine cannot enter a cell easily because it cannot cross the cell membrane. The area of science that could use this information to improve medicine is this.
What is pharmacology or drug development?
The cell membrane is mainly made of a double layer of these molecules.
What are phospholipids?
Mitochondria produce a lot of this molecule, which cells use as an energy source.
What is adenosine triphosphate, or ATP?
Tiny openings in the nuclear envelope that control what enters and leaves the nucleus.
What are nuclear pores?
The word "mitochondrion" comes from Greek words meaning "thread" and this.
What is "small granule"?
Scientists can study mitochondrial DNA to learn about a person's ancient maternal ancestry.
What is mitochondrial inheritance?
The cell membrane is described as “selectively permeable” because it does this.
What is allowing some substances through while limiting others?
Mitochondria are thought to have originally been these types of organisms that began living inside another cell.
What are bacteria?
This scientist is credited with identifying the nucleus while studying plant cells in 1831.
Who is Robert Browns?
This organelle has its own DNA, separate from the DNA found in the nucleus.
What is the mitochondrion?
Scientists are researching artificial cells, and understanding the cell membrane could help them create this important feature.
What is a boundary that controls what enters and leaves the artificial cell?
The structure of the cell membrane is described as this model.
What is the fluid mosaic model?
The person who called the mitochondria, 'bioblasts'.
Who is Richard Altmann?
Two different types of cells have the same DNA but look and act differently because of this.
What is they use different genes?
Mature human red blood cells don't have this organelle, and muscle cells have multiple of these organelles.
What is the nucleus?
Research into gene editing, mitochondrial diseases, and artificial cells all demonstrates how studying these tiny structures can contribute to this broad field.
What is biotechnology and medicine?
Besides controlling the movement of substances in and out of the cell, another important function of proteins in the cell membrane is this.
What is cell communication or signaling?
Mitochondrial DNA is useful when studying ancestry because of this.
What is mitochondrial DNA is generally passed down through the maternal line?
The nucleus is made up of these.
What are the nuclear membrane or envelope, nucleoplasm, chromatin, and nucleolus?
It inaccurate to say that mitochondria are completely independent from the rest of the cell, even though they have their own DNA because of this.
What is they still depend on proteins and instructions provided by genes in the nucleus?
Scientists discover that a cancer cell has changes in the genes controlling when the cell divides. The organelle that contains most of the information they would need to investigate is this.
What is the nucleus?