Anatomy and Physiology

CH. 3 words/p harses a

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Cell membrane
Encloses cell
Nucleus
Houses genetic material and controls cellular activities
Cytoplasm
Fills out the cell
Organelles
Special structures in cytoplasm
Cytosol
Organelles that are suspended in liquid and that perform specific functions which divides the labor of a cell
Signal transduction
A molecular communication proces which allows many of a cells actions that enable it to survive and to interact with other cells
Selectivly permeable
Which means only a certain substance can enter or leave the cell
Transmembrane proteins (or membrane spanning)
Extend through the lipid bilay and may proturde from one or both faces
Peripheral membrane proteins
Are associated mostly with one side of the bilayer
Membranes may be __, ____, or __
Globular, rodlike or fibrous
Cellular adhesion molecule (CAM)
A protein that is on a cells suface which guides a cells interactions with other cells
Cytoplasm
Gell like materical in which organelles are suspended-it makes up most of the cells volume
Cytoplam (contains)
A network of membrane and organelles that suspended in cytosl it also includes abundant protein rods and tubules that form a framwork or cytoskeleton
Cell ,membrane (structure)
Membrane composed of protein and lipid molecules
ER (structure)
Complex of interconnected membrane bound sacs and canals