2.3 Short Answer Questions
1) This phase is the physical division of the cytoplasm between the two newly formed cells that result from mitosis.
2) What is the transport mechanism by which substances move from the cytoplasm to the outside of the cell?
3) Cell aging may be related to production of what charged molecules produced by the mitochondria?
4) Identify the two different types of membrane-associated molecules that comprise the glycocalyx.
5) What would extended chromatin wrapped around a group of eight histones be called?
6) This is the phase in which a cell grows and carries on all its usual metabolic activities.
7) These are the smallest living units in the body.
8) This is the outermost continuous boundary of a human cell.
9) This is the name for the currently held theory describing the plasma membrane structure.
10) The phospholipid molecules of the plasma membrane are primarily composed of ________.
11) This network of rods running throughout the cytosol acts as a cell's "bones," "muscles," and "ligaments."
12) This is the mechanism by which large particles and macromolecules enter a cell.
13) This is the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.
14) This is the type of protein involved in transport mechanisms across the plasma membrane.
15) This is an inherited disease that leads to an accumulation of undigested glycolipids especially in the lysosomes of neurons.