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Topic 1: The Eukaryotic Cell

A eukaryotic jail cellphone is defined equally a jail cellphone amongst a nucleus in addition to membrane-bound organelles.  Animal in addition to flora cells are eukaryotic, simply a slightly dissimilar from each other.  This is their appearance:

Generalized brute cell


Image from:  http://www.bio.miami.edu

Generalized flora cell

  Image from:  http://www.uvm.edu


Structure in addition to business office of the cellular organelles:

1.  Cytoplasm:  the matrix inward which all jail cellphone organelles in addition to inclusions (insoluble waste matter or storage products) are found.  Made upwards of the cytosol and cytoskeleton.
-cytosol:  90% water, site of many biochemical reactions
-cytoskeleton:  made upwards of microtubules in addition to microfilaments (string-like proteins).  Important inward supporting the cell, giving its shape in addition to some jail cellphone movements (like extension in addition to contraction of pseudopods inward amoeba!), equally good equally moving organelles inside the jail cellphone in addition to jail cellphone division.  The microtubules cast parts of the cilia in addition to flagella.





2.  Nucleus:  command centre of most cellular activities.  It is surrounded yesteryear the nuclear envelope, which contains pores though which materials (proteins in addition to RNA) tin pass.  The nucleoplasm is flora inside the envelope, it is similar to the cytoplasm.  The nucleolus is the nighttime field inward the nucleus where ribosomal RNA is formed.  Chromatin (DNA in addition to associated proteins) is flora roughly the nucleolus.


3.  Endoplasmic reticulum (ER):  It is a serial of interconnected, flattened sacs, tubes in addition to channels formed yesteryear the phospholipid bilayer.  There are ii types:  rough ER and smooth ER.  Rough ER appears bumpy because it is covered amongst ribosomes.  Its business office is to isolate, shop in addition to carry proteins produced yesteryear the ribosomes.  The smoothen ER produces in addition to stores lipids.

4.  Golgi apparatus:  also made of phospholipid bilayers (or membranes), it functions to modify, variety in addition to bundle macromolecules (like proteins in addition to lipids)  for jail cellphone secretion (exocytosis) or usage inside the cell.  Imagine it is similar a postal service office; it packages in addition to labels items in addition to sends them to dissimilar parts of the cell.


5.  Ribosomes:  brand proteins from amino acids.  They tin live flora attached to the ER or floating freely inward the cytoplasm.  They are made of rRNA in addition to protein.

In the next picture, the connection betwixt the diverse jail cellphone parts tin live observed.  Information most how to laid upwards a poly peptide comes from the nucleus equally mRNA.  It attaches to the ribosome, which "reads" the mRNA in addition to builds a poly peptide from amino acids.  The poly peptide is released into the fossil oil ER, in addition to so it is packaged inward a vesicle (this is a picayune membrane-bound bubble) in addition to transported to the Golgi apparatus, where it may live modified, packaged into a novel vesicle in addition to and so transported to the jail cellphone surface in addition to released (exocytosis).

Image from:  http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/upload/2006/07/ergolgi.jpg

6.  Mitochondria:  small membrane-bound organelles inward the cytoplasm.  They are considered the "powerhouse" of the jail cellphone equally this is where the reactions occur that exercise ATP (cellular respiration) that render the jail cellphone amongst energy.

 Image from:  http://imagineannie.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/mitochondria1.jpg




 Image from:  http://math.etsu.edu/symbiosis/mitochondria.jpg


7.  Chloroplasts:  Found alone inward plants in addition to plant-like protists.  They are the site of photosynthesis in addition to incorporate the greenish pigment, chlorophyll (along amongst other, less visible pigments!)

 Image from:  http://www.scsc.k12.in.us/SMS/Teachers/Martin/chloroplast.jpg

  Image from:  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/images/130/Photosynthesis/Chloroplast_EN.gif


8. Lysosomes in addition to peroxisomes:  Special vacuoles, which are designed to digest things (such equally worn-out or excess jail cellphone parts, nutrient particles, invading viruses or bacteria, etc) amongst digestive enzymes.  They incorporate dissimilar digestive enzymes, thus digest dissimilar things.  Lysosomes are formed from the Golgi apparatus, whereas peroxisomes are formed from the ER.

9.  Cell wall:  It is flora inward plant, algal in addition to fungal cells.  It is completely permeable, simply it contains cellulose (plants in addition to algae) or chitin (fungus), which protects in addition to supports the cell.


10.  Cell membrane:  It is a phospholipid bilayer.  It is both elastic in addition to stiff in addition to helps give the jail cellphone its shape.  It is selectively permeable, thus helps command carry of substances in addition to homeostasis.  It is permeable to gases in addition to water, simply many substances tin alone transcend through it amongst the assistance of proteins, such equally channels, poly peptide pumps in addition to receptor proteins.  

 Image from:  http://macro.magnet.sfu.edu/cells/plasmamembrane/images/plasmamembranefigure1.jpg




The Endosymbiotic Theory
-  proposed yesteryear Lynn Margulis at the destination of the 1960s, it was initially ridiculed, simply is forthwith well-accepted.
-   suggests that for certain prokaryotic cells engulfed (endocytosed) other cells, simply instead of beingness digested, these cells continued to alive in addition to each provided the other amongst some benefits (symbiosis).
-  mitchondria:  an anaerobic bacteria engulfed a smaller aerobic bacteria.  Mutual advantages?  The aerobic bacteria provided the larger, anaerobic bacteria amongst the mightiness to move inward areas amongst oxygen, spell the larger bacteria ingested nutrient in addition to provided protection to the smaller aerobic one.
-  chloroplast:  a photosynthetic bacteria was engulfed yesteryear a larger anerobic bacteria.  Advantages?  I am for certain yous tin figure these out for yourselves!!
-  evidence:  These organelles are surrounded yesteryear a double lipid bilayer (their own, addition the 1 of the jail cellphone that engulfed them!).  These organelles too guide maintain their ain deoxyribonucleic acid in addition to split upwards independently of the cells that they are flora in.

 Image from:  http://www.origin-of-mitochondria.net/?attachment_id=120

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