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1. Identify Parts of the Cell without looking at notes, text or slides. After you have tried look at hints on last
page (yes some of these squiggles are vague but try before peeking). If you are still stuck mark these with a
star and look in text/slides. (There are a lot more of b,d,e,m than shown.)
a. __________________________________________________________________
b. __________________________________________________________________
c. (these should be over by nucleus) ____________________________________________
d. __________________________________________________________________
e. __________________________________________________________________
f. __________________________________________________________________
g. __________________________________________________________________
h. __________________________________________________________________
i. __________________________________________________________________
j. __________________________________________________________________
k. __________________________________________________________________
l. __________________________________________________________________
m. __________________________________________________________________
n. __________________________________________________________________
o. __________________________________________________________________
p. __________________________________________________________________
2. Watch The Inner Life of a Cell (Click: The Inner Life 8 MIN (top left) not little video insert) at
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
4. Go to http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ There is lots of good stuff for you here but before you explore, first
type the words Cell Size and Scale into the search bar on top.
a. Take some time to look at scale explanation under picture.
1 meter = 3.2808399 feet or 39.37… inches
b. Move the scroll bar under the picture slowly to right. Maybe try it a second time reading the
labels. Write down anything you are surprised about, then look at notes below picture.
CHAPTER FOUR
*5. Compare and contrast:
a. kinetic and potential energy e. a reaction with and without an enzyme
b. energy releasing and energy absorbing reactions f. first and second law of thermodynamics
c. reactants (substrates) and products g. competitive and noncompetitive inhibitors
d. ATP and ADP h. high and low energy bonds
*8. List the six functions of membrane protein (from Lecture #11 Ch 4 summary slide)
*9. Which is NOT true? Compared to lower energy bonds, high energy bonds…
a. release a lot more energy when broken d. are less stable
b. require a lot more energy to make e. all of these are true
c. require a lot more energy to break
*11. What do enzymes do? An enzyme’s function is a result of the ______________ of its binding site.
*12. An enzyme and a membrane receptor are similar in that they
a. are always attached to the membrane d. supply energy for the cell
b. bind to molecules of a particular shape e. act as catalysts
c. require ATP to function
*13. What is energy? What is chemical energy? Explain how a little tiny electron can have potential energy?
Where does the energy in ATP come from? What form of energy does ATP have? Where is that energy?
What are the parts of ATP? All good test questions!
For questions # 14 through # 24 Insulin is produced by the pancreas, and stored in lipid vesicles. After
eating a meal containing glucose, the insulin is released into the blood where it binds to the insulin receptor
and allows the glucose transporter on fat and muscle cells to open. Type 1 diabetes is caused when
patients cannot produce the peptide hormone insulin in their pancreas.
Insulin A
Pancreas Cell
B
GLUCOSE
Insulin Receptor
Glucose Transporter
C
Fat or Muscle Cell
Blood
14. Glucose is at a lower concentration inside the fat cell than outside. This is...
a. diffusion b. activation energy c. a concentration gradient d. impossible
15. Under these conditions, glucose would enter the fat cell by…
a. endocytosis b. osmosis c. diffusion d. facilitated diffusion e. active transport
17. In a diabetic, what will happen to blood glucose levels after eating simple carbohydrates?
a. increase b. decrease c. stay the same d. no way to know
19. Glucose is soluble in water because it can form ___ with water molecules.
a. covalent bonds b. hydrogen bonds c. ionic bonds d. hydrophobic bonds
20. Which of these molecules (above right) binds the fewest water molecules per carbon atom?
a. A b. B c. C d. no way to know
21. Insulin and the insulin receptors are _ and thus contain which of these molecules (above right) _?
a. carbohydrates . . . A b. lipids . . . . . . . . . . B c. proteins . . . . . . . C
d. proteins . . . . . . . . A e. carbohydrates . . . B i. lipids . . . . . . . . . C
22. Insulin and the insulin receptors are synthesized (made) in what part of the cell?
a. nucleus b. smooth ER c. Golgi
d. Rough ER e. cytoplasm f. mitochondria
23. Trace the path of production for insulin by ranking these steps from 1 (first) to 6 (last)
____ exported from plasma membrane
____ ribosome binds mRNA
____ info from DNA copied into mRNA
____ polypeptide chain grows inside RER
____ ribosome binds RER
____ protein processed/sorted in Golgi
24. a. In the human body, blood glucose is kept within a narrow range of 4 and 6 mM (mmol/l).
This mechanism is called ___________________________________________
b. Is insulin brought into the cell after it binds the receptor? (Yes/ No) __________
c. Explain briefly (2 words will suffice) how the cell knows to responds to the binding of insulin.