Cell Membrane
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What are the disadvantages of O-negative blood?
What is mesosome? Where it is located? What are its main uses?
- Ribosomes
- Nucleolus
- Centrosome
- All of these
According to the unit membrane concept (Robertson model), the plasma membrane has the following arrangement:
Protein and lipid layers intermingled
Protein-lipid-protein
Lipid-protein-lipid
Protein-lipid-lipid
Draw a well-labeled diagram of the nucleus.
What are examples of transport proteins?
The process of plasmolysis in plant cells is defined as:
Breakdown of plasma membrane in hypotonic solution
Shrinkage of cytoplasm in hypertonic medium
Shrinkage of nucleoplasm
None of these
- increasing the number of phospholipids unsaturated hydrocarbon tails
- increasing the proportion of intergral proteins
- increasing concentration of cholesterol in membrane
- increasing the number of phospholipids with saturated hydrocarbon tails
Differentiate between the following:
- Turgidity and Flaccidity
What is the cell membrane composed of?
Property | Simple diffusion | Facilitated transpor | Active Transport |
i. Highly selective | Yes | ||
ii.Uphill transport | Yes | ||
iii. Requires ATP |
- plant cell
- cyanobacterial cell
- mycoplasma cell
- protist cell
- Cells membrane and nucleolus
- Cell membrane and cell wall
- Nucleolus and chloroplast
- Nucleus and cell wall
Assertion: Interphase nucleus has a loose and distinct network of fibre called chromatin.
Reason: Chromatin contains RNA, DNA and histone proteins but non-histone proteins are absent.
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- Blood
- Serum
- Anti-serum
- Lymph
What are the main functions of nuclear membrane?
Which part of the cell contains cell organelles?
True
False
- The fluid mosaic model was proposed to explain the structure of the plasma membrane
- Lipids are arranged in a bilayer with hydrophobic heads facing outside and hydrophilic tails towards inside
- Proteins are embedded within the lipid layer
- The plasma membrane allows only certain molecules to pass through it
With a neat labeled diagram describe the structure of an animal cell.
- lipids
- carbohydrates
- cytoplasm
- ribosomes
- lysosomes
Assertion: The nuclear pores are the passages through which movement of RNA and protein molecules takes place in both directions between the cytoplasm and nucleoplasm.
Reason: Nuclear pores are formed by the fusion of two membranes of the nucleus.
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- Secondary wall
- Middle wall
- Primary wall
- Tonoplast
- Proteins in cell membranes can travel within the lipid bilayer
- Proteins can also undergo flip-flop movements in the lipid bilayer
- Proteins can remain confined within certain domains of the membranes
- Many proteins remain completely embedded within the lipid bilayer
- Mitochondria
- Sphaerosome
- Ribosome
- Chloroplast