Structure
Function
Creation and Destruction
Compare/Contrast
Other Cytoskeleton
100
This is what filamentous actin is.
What is another name for microfilaments.
100
Microfilaments are large, stiff, hollow protein tubes, True or False.
What is False.
100
The polymerization of the globular actin.
What is microfilaments or filamentous actin.
100
The average size difference between microfilaments and microtubules.
What is 17?
100
This is what the 9+2 arrangement refers to.
The spokes/center structure of a eukaryotic cilia.
200
This is the purpose of the protein myosine.
Movement of the microfilaments
200
The job that microfilaments are responsible for in mitosis.
Movement of cytoplasm, splitting of the cell.
200
The shape that microfilaments take when formed.
What is a helix.
200
How the location of the cilia/flagella and the location of the microfilaments differ.
What is the cilia/flagella are outside the cell.
200
This is the larger grouping that the microfilaments fall under.
The cytoskeleton.
300
The size/diameter of the average microfilament
8 nm
300
The tissue that the most microfilaments are found in
Muscle tissue
300
This is the name of free floating actin subunits.
Globular actin.
300
The portions of the cell that are moved by the microtubules and microfilaments by the fact that...
What is the microtubules move the organelles and the microfilaments move the cytoplasm.
300
This is the main difference between cilium and flagella.
What is the number present. The cilia are present in much greater concentration.
400
What is a role of microfilaments in digestion.
An increased surface area
400
A result of this is rapid cell proliferation, and or cancer
What is microfilament malfunction.
400
This is the purpose of the shape and construction of the microfilaments, and a major contrast to microtubules.
What is the ability to bear tension.
400
The shape of the microtubules and microfilaments differ by the fact that...
The microtubules are tubes.
400
This is how the the microfilament allows for motion within a plant cell.
Cytoplasmic streaming.
500
An application of the movement of microfilaments.
What is cell shape and division.
500
Where the band of microfilaments are usually found.
What is just inside the plasma membrane.
500
An organism that can lengthen its shape and move due to the reconstruction of microfilaments.
What is an Amoeba.
500
The microtubules and microfilaments both have proteins for motion, these are the two names.
Myosin, Dynein
500
This is an analogy that could be used to describe the movement of both myosin and dynein.
Walking on the street.
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