Histo Study Questions List
Histo Study Questions List
Histo Study Questions List
Lecture 1+2.
1. What are the 3 points of cell theory?
2. What organs does CF affect primarily? What causes CF
3. What effect does CF have on these organs and why is it detrimental to health?
4. Stop and label a diagram of a cell.
5. What are some major functions of the cell membrane? (7)
6. What are the components of the fluid mosaic model? Describe the basic model of the cell
membrane and draw it as well.
7. What is a glycocalyx?
8. What are the two major categories of cell membrane proteins? What are their functions? (6)
9. What is an example of passive transport?
10. What is an example of active transport?
11. what are some ways the cell controls what enters through channels?
12. Name a voltage gated channel. Name a ligand gated channel. What does that mean to be ---
gated?
13. What is a symport? What is an antiport? Name an example.
14. What is pinocytosis an example of? Describe this general process
15. what is phagocytosis?
16. What are some examples of materials released with exocytosis?
17. What are ribosomes? Describe them.
18. Explain the general theory of DNA replication.
19. What is the Endoplasmic reticulum? What does it mean to be rough ER? What does ER do?
What is created in RER? What is created in SER?
20. What is the Golgi apparatus? What does it do? What would it look like under
electronmicroscopy? Is there polarity in the golgi apparatus?
21. Describe the journey of a protein from creation through to outside of the cell?
22. Who is the “police force of a cell”?
23. What does the “police force” do? What is autophagy?
24. What are the three stages of the lysosome?
25. What is a clathrin-coated PIT and what is it for?
26. What is a mitochondria? How do you get more? Why would you want more?
27. What do cells use for energy primarily? Where is the energy located in the molecule?
28. When these ^^ energy molecules are created, by what process are they “CHARGED”?
29. Describe the structure of the mitochondria… label an x-ray of a mitochondria.
30. What organelle has its own maternal DNA?
31. Describe the basic function/mechanism of mitochondria.
32. What are some associated symptoms with mitochondrial cytopathies?
33. Describe the 3 structures of the cytoskeleton.
34. What cytoskeleton structure is found in cilia, flagella, and mitotic spindles? How is this structure
built? How are they similar to a maglev train? What is the function of this structure?
35. Describe the structure of a centriole. Draw a basic diagram of mitosis/miosis. Indicate a general
description of what’s happening with the chromosomes.
36. What is the centrosome?
37. What is the main function of cilia and flagella. Where might we find each of these structures.
Describe the structure.
38. What is an intermediate filament? What are the 5 major types?
39. What is edema?
Lecture 3.
1. Name structures found within the nucleus. (10)
2. What does DNA stand for?
3. What does RNA stand for?
4. What is the largest organelle of the cell?
5. What is chromatin? What’s difference between heterochromatin/euchromatin? What is a
nucleosome?
6. What is the function of the nucleolus? What is basic structure?
7. What is contained in the nucleoplasm?
8. Describe the nuclear envelope + nuclear pore complex.
9. What proteins (2) mediate bidirectional traffic through the NPC?
10. what’s a telomere? Importance to health?
11. Describe basic cell cycle (mitosis/meiosis).
12. What is apoptosis?
Lecture 4.
1. What are the four types of tissues?
2. What is the outcome of duchenne muscular dystrophy? What protein is the issue in DMD?
3. What is the cause of DMD?
4. What are four types of connective tissue?
5. What are 2 types of epithelial? What would they look like?
6. What are the functions of epithelial cells?
7. What are the functions of connective cells?
8. Between epithelia and connective which is more likely to have “more fill less cells”?
9. What is the function of muscular tissue? What are their general structure characteristics?
10. What are the two types of nervous tissue? What functions do nervous tissues have?
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