Cell Biology Basics

What primarily drives active transport?

Lysosomes are filled with what?

What process is also known as cellular drinking?

Which of the following best describes normal saline?

What is the name for the process where a vesicle fuses with the cell membrane to expel its contents?

What term describes the bursting of red blood cells?

What term describes a lysosome eating a bacterium?

Where is most of a cell's DNA found?

Which of the following best describes the extensive internal membrane system that forms channels and is concerned with synthesis of proteins and steroids?

Which type of solution causes crenation of red blood cells?

Which cellular structure is characterized as rough or smooth?

Which of the following best describes phagocytosis and pinocytosis?

What is the gel-like substance inside a cell, outside the nucleus called?

Which of the following most accurately describes diffusion?

Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase are phases of what?

What organelle puts the finishing touches on proteins and packages them for export?

Plasma oncotic pressure is also known as what type of pressure?

What condition may develop if plasma protein leaks into the tissue spaces?

Mitosis results in the production of how many cells, and what is their genetic relationship?

During which phase of the cell cycle do the G1, G2, and S phases occur?

An anticancer drug that only interferes with mitosis is what?

Cell division occurs during which phase of the cell cycle?

What is the name for when a cell 'drops out' of the cell cycle?

Which of the following best describes a necrotic cell?

Which process is the RER primarily involved with?

A beaker has two compartments (A and B) with a membrane permeable to salt and water. Compartment A has 10% salt, and Compartment B has 20% salt. At equilibrium, what is true?

A beaker has two compartments (A and B) with a membrane permeable only to water. Compartment A has 10% salt, and Compartment B has 20% salt. At equilibrium, what is true?

Most potassium ($K^+$) is located inside cells. What accounts for the movement of additional $K^+$ into the cells?

A child experiences a head injury causing a slow bleed. After the bleeding stops, the blood clot expands because...

What is the primary difference between diffusion and facilitated diffusion?

What is the effect of an intravenous infusion of pure water?

Which of the following describes the response of a red blood cell (RBC) to immersion in an isotonic solution?

Telophase and cytokinesis are stages of what?

What do telophase and cytokinesis complete?

Methotrexate is most effective when a cancer cell is in which phase of the cell cycle?

Methotrexate interferes with cell replication, what best describes this?

What process is exemplified when a stem cell develops into a muscle cell?

In a scenario where Compartment A contains a 5% glucose solution and Compartment B contains a 15% glucose solution, where might the membrane (dividing the beaker into compartments A and B) be permeable to both solute and solvent? What will happen to the water's net flux initially?

If Compartment A contains a 25% glucose solution and Compartment B a 15% glucose solution, and the dividing membrane is permeable only to water, what is true regarding the initial net flux?

In which scenario would the volume in compartment B be greater than in compartment A at equilibrium, with a membrane separating them?

If a compartment A contains a 25% glucose solution and compartment B contains a 5% glucose solution, separated by a membrane permeable to solvent but not glucose, what will occur?

Given a capillary filtration pressure of 30 mm Hg at the arterial end and 7 mm Hg at the venous end, and a capillary oncotic pressure of 15 mm Hg, what typically happens at the arterial end of the capillary?

How does potassium (K+) typically move from the extracellular compartment to the intracellular compartment to maintain the high intracellular concentration?

What happens to a red blood cell (RBC) when it is placed in a hypertonic saline solution?

Which of the following statements about glycogen is NOT true?