Intracellular Transport
Cytoskeleton
Cell Cycle
Cancer
Miscellaneous
100

The methods of intracellular transport

BONUS POINTS (50): Match the organelle to the type of transport.

What is Pores (Nucleus), Translocators (ER & Mitochondria), and Transport Vesicles (ER & Golgi)?

100

The four types of Intermediate Filaments.

BONUS POINTS (50): The locations of each type. 

What is keratin (cytoplasmic), lamins (nuclear), vimentin (cytoplasmic), and neurofilaments (cytoplasmic)? 

100

The name of the checkpoint proteins

BONUS POINTS (50): Their function

What is cyclin (binds to CDK & oscillates) CDK (pushes from one phase to another by binding to cyclin)?

100

Examples of benign and malignant cancer cells (the names)

BONUS POINTS (50): Name all of them

What is benign: adenomas, meningiomas, and fibromas & malignant: sarcomas and carcinomas?

100
The full name for TGN, the function of cisternae, cis golgi, and trans-Golgi

What is the trans-Golgi network, the compartments in Golgi (allow multiple vesicles to form), vesicles enter (coming from the ER), and vesicles exit/released?

200

The kDEL sequence

What is the ER retention signal; tells the retrieval vesicle to bring the protein back from Golgi to ER?

200

Example of MAP and what it does

What is TAU; stabilizes microtubules in an axon?

200

The difference between CDK+cyclin+(P) and CDK+cyclin

What is having a kinase phosphatase (needs step 2; remove phosphate from CDC 25 (WEE 1 inhibits CDK) to activate CDK+cyclin)?

200

Examples of tumor suppressor genes

What is APC & p53?

200

The two examples of motor proteins in nerve cells and the direction they go

What is kinesin (signals out) and dynein (signals in)?

300

The important components involved in intracellular transport in the mitochondria

What is chaperones, mitochondrial import receptor, mitochondrial sequence, translocator 1&2, signal peptidase, protein (aa chain), and the matrix?

300

The gamma-tubulin ring complex

What is where tubulin attaches and forms a microtubule (at the centrosome)?

300

The process of when a DSB occurs

What is first making p21 through p53 to bind to CDK complex to pause the cell cycle to rapid; can't repair=apoptosis through p53?

300

List all the key differences between normal and cancer cells

What is cell reproduction, cell communication, cell adhesion, cell specialization, cell death, ability to metastasize, appearance, and protein expression?
300

The two examples of actin in crawling (help retract & extend) & location

What is lamellipodium (knuckles) and filopodia (finger tips)?

400

Draw out and explain the RAN Cycle.

Professor Harris is the judge...

400

The three actin-binding proteins and their function

What is Thymosin (no to growth), Profilin (no to growth), and Formins (yes to growth/promotes polymerization)?

400

Full name for APC and function

What is anaphase-promoting complex that is involved with adding ubiquitination chains to promote degradation? 

400

Potential causes of cancer

What is smoking, obesity, genetics: inheritance, spontaneous, radiation, mutation, toxins, and infection?
400

The range of aa sequences involved in NPC

What is 3-60 aa?

500

Draw out and explain budding & fusion, the example of an ER translocator, and the process involving dynamin. 

Professor Harris is the judge...

500

Draw out the treadmilling process

Professor Harris will be the judge...

500

Purpose of the G1 phase

What is the growth phase where DNA must be correct (having no mutations), and produces a variety of proteins to continue to S Phase?

500

The full name for APC and its function

BONUS POINTS (150): explain the entire process of colon cancer by drawing it out & what is WNT

What is Adenomatous Polyposis Coli and a brake pedal in cell proliferation for WNT?

Professor Harris will be the judge of the drawing

500

Professor Harris' office hours location and where he actually has office hours 

BONUS POINTS (150): days and times

What is Aliso Hall 201 and the SUB?

BONUS: Monday's & Friday's @ 9-10 AM

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