Highway to Cell
This is the process by which a mitochondrion generates ATP.
What is Oxidative phosphorylation?
This type of membrane protein is always open and cannot be saturated.
What is a Channel protein?
This process produces an mRNA copy of a gene from DNA.
What is Transcription?
Some cells that do not replicate are permanently stuck in this phase of cell growth and development.
What is G0 phase?
This form of epithelial tissue appears to be multiple layers, but is in fact a single layer of varying height.
What is Pseudostratified epithelium?
These organelles detoxify harmful compounds such as alcohol and also break down fatty acids.
What are Peroxisomes?
This type of diffusion requires carrier or channel proteins to move polar or charged substances across the membrane.
What is Facilitated diffusion?
This enzyme aids in DNA replication by "glueing together" strands of DNA.
What is Ligase?
What is Interphase?
These intercellular junctions act as channels between cells to allow rapid communication from one to another.
What are Gap Junctions?
This membrane system modifies, sorts, and packages proteins received from the rough ER.
What is the Golgi Apparatus (Complex)?
This ATP-powered pump moves three sodium ions out of a cell and two potassium ions into a cell.
What is the Sodium-potassium pump?
During RNA processing, these noncoding regions are removed from pre-mRNA.
What are Introns?
Sister chromatids align along the cell's equator during this stage of mitosis.
What is Metaphase?
This type of connective tissue is commonly found in arteries such as the Aorta, aiding in the recoil seen in such vasculature.
What is Elastic connective tissue?
These structures form the nuclear envelope's gateways, allowing communication between nucleoplasm and cytoplasm.
What are Nuclear pores?
This form of endocytosis involves the cell taking large "bites" from its environment.
What is Phagocytosis?
This form of RNA is the kind read by ribosomes.
What is mRNA (messenger RNA)?
Cells that fail checkpoint inspections and cannot be repaired undergo this programmed cell death process.
What is Apoptosis?
This type of muscle tissue has striations, intercalated discs, and is involuntary in nature.
What is Cardiac muscle?
Defects in this organelle's acid hydrolases lead to diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher's disease.
What are Lysosomes?
During this specific type of endocytosis, ligands bind membrane receptors before a vesicle forms.
What is Receptor-mediated endocytosis (Pinocytosis)?
This portion of tRNA binds with the codon of mRNA.
What is the Anti-codon?
This is the process by which malignant tumors spread to nearby (and sometimes distant) tissue.
What is Metastasis?
Resistant to compression, this type of connective tissue is full of collagen fibers in its ECM, making it the perfect tissue for your intervertebral discs.
What is Fibrocartilage?