Cell Parts
The thin, flexible, external part of a cell that separates it from other cells and fluid outside of itself.
What is the lipid bilayer?
Where higher concentration of potassium is found.
What is inside of the house (the cell).
Any 3 lobes of the brain
Location in the brain responsible for balance and sensory motor feedback.
What is the cerebellum?
The parts of a neuron which receive input from other neurons (most of the time).
What are dendrites?
The part of a cell which holds DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The location which an action potential summates at?
What is the axon hillock?
The brainstem parts of the brain.
Function of the occipital lobe.
What is vision?
The question being debated in the "soups versus sparks" debate.
What is chemical versus electrical synaptic signaling?
The inner part of the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondrial matrix?
The name for packages of neurotransmitters.
What are vesicles?
What the white matter of the brain is made of.
What are axon projections?
Two functions of the temporal lobe.
What are word storage, categorization, short term memory, or spatial learning?
The equation which can calculate the resting membrane potential using many ions at the same time.
What is the goldman equation?
The cellular organelle which allows for a cell to hold its shape.
What is the cytoskeleton?
The flow of ions due to the sodium/potassium pump.
What is 3 sodium ions out and 2 potassium ions in?
The cell type which myelinates in the CNS
What are oligodendrocytes?
Degradation of this area leads to Parkinson's disease.
What is the basal ganglia?
What is the disorder which occurs when the immune system attacks the central nervous system myelination?
What is multiple sclerosis?
The structure within a cell where DNA translation occurs.
What are the ribosomes?
The inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters
What are GABA and glutamate?
Proteins which are utilized in axonal transport for 1) anterograde, and 2) retrograde transport.
What is 1) kinesin and 2) dynein?
Location of the neuron where neurotransmitter is made, and then location where it is packaged into vesicles.
What is the soma and then the golgi apparatus?
What is the telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, metencephalon, and myelencephalon.