front 1 - ) Who was/were the first to propose that cell membranes are
phospholipid bilayers?
A) H. Davson and J. Danielli
B) I. Langmuir
C) C. Overton
D) S. Singer and G. Nicolson
E) E. Gorter and F. Grendel | |
front 2 - 2) Some regions of the plasma membrane, called lipid rafts,
have a higher concentration of cholesterol molecules. As a result,
these lipid rafts
- A) are more fluid than the surrounding
membrane.
- B) are more rigid than the surrounding
membrane.
- C) are able to flip from inside to
outside.
- D) detach from the plasma membrane and clog
arteries.
- E) have higher rates of lateral diffusion of
lipids and proteins into and out of the lipid rafts.
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front 3 - 3) Singer and Nicolsonʹs fluid mosaic model of the membrane
proposed that
- A) membranes are a phospholipid bilayer.
- B) membranes are a phospholipid bilayer between two
layers of hydrophilic proteins.
- C) membranes are a
single layer of phospholipids and proteins.
- D)
membranes consist of protein molecules embedded in a fluid
bilayer of phospholipids.
- E) membranes consist of a
mosaic of polysaccharides and proteins.
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front 4 4) Which of the following types of molecules are the major structural
components of the cell membrane?
- A) phospholipids and cellulose
- B) nucleic acids
and proteins
- C) phospholipids and proteins
- D)
proteins and cellulose
- E) glycoproteins and
cholesterol
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front 5 - 5) When biological membranes are frozen and then fractured,
they tend to break along the middle of the bilayer. The best
explanation for this is that
- A) the integral membrane
proteins are not strong enough to hold the bilayer
together.
- B) water that is present in the middle of the
bilayer freezes and is easily fractured.
- C) hydrophilic
interactions between the opposite membrane surfaces are
destroyed on freezing.
- D) the carbon-carbon bonds of
the phospholipid tails are easily broken.
- E) the
hydrophobic interactions that hold the membrane together are
weakest at this point.
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front 6 - 6) The presence of cholesterol in the plasma membranes of some
animals
- A) enables the membrane to stay fluid more easily
when cell temperature drops.
- B) enables the animal to
remove hydrogen atoms from saturated phospholipids.
-
C) enables the animal to add hydrogen atoms to unsaturated
phospholipids.
- D) makes the membrane less flexible,
allowing it to sustain greater pressure from within the cell.
- E) makes the animal more susceptible to circulatory
disorders.
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front 7 - 7) According to the fluid mosaic model of cell membranes, which
of the following is a true statement about membrane phospholipids?
- A) They can move laterally along the plane of the
membrane.
- B) They frequently flip-flop from one side
of the membrane to the other.
- C) They occur in an
uninterrupted bilayer, with membrane proteins restricted to the
surface of the membrane.
- D) They are free to depart
from the membrane and dissolve in the surrounding solution.
- E) They have hydrophilic tails in the interior of the
membrane.
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front 8 - 8) Which of the following is one of the ways that the membranes
of winter wheat are able to remain fluid when it is extremely
cold?
- A) by increasing the percentage of unsaturated
phospholipids in the membrane
- B) by increasing the
percentage of cholesterol molecules in the membrane
- C) by
decreasing the number of hydrophobic proteins in the membrane
- D) by cotransport of glucose and hydrogen
- E) by using
active transport
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front 9 - ) In order for a protein to be an integral membrane protein it
would have to be
- A) hydrophilic.
- B)
hydrophobic.
- C) amphipathic, with at least one hydrophobic
region.
- D) completely covered with phospholipids.
- E)
exposed on only one surface of the membrane.
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front 10 - 10) When a membrane is freeze-fractured, the bilayer splits
down the middle between the two layers of phospholipids. In an
electron micrograph of a freeze-fractured membrane, the bumps seen
on the fractured surface of the membrane are
- A) peripheral
proteins.
- B) phospholipids.
- C) carbohydrates.
- D) integral proteins.
- E) cholesterol molecules.
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front 11 - 11) Which of the following is a reasonable explanation for why
unsaturated fatty acids help keep any membrane more fluid at lower
temperatures?
- A) The double bonds form kinks in the fatty
acid tails, preventing adjacent lipids from packing
tightly.
- B) Unsaturated fatty acids have a higher
cholesterol content and therefore more cholesterol in
membranes.
- C) Unsaturated fatty acids are more polar than
saturated fatty acids.
- D) The double bonds block
interaction among the hydrophilic head groups of the
lipids.
- E) The double bonds result in shorter fatty acid
tails and thinner membranes.
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front 12 - 12) Which of the following is true of integral membrane
proteins?
- A) They lack tertiary structure.
- B) They
are loosely bound to the surface of the bilayer.
- C) They
are usually transmembrane proteins.
- D) They are not mobile
within the bilayer.
- E) They serve only a structural role in
membranes.
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front 13 - 13) The primary function of polysaccharides attached to the
glycoproteins and glycolipids of animal cell membranes is
- A) to facilitate diffusion of molecules down their concentration
gradients.
- B) to actively transport molecules against their
concentration gradients.
- C) to maintain the integrity of a
fluid mosaic membrane.
- D) to maintain membrane fluidity at
low temperatures.
- E) to mediate cell-to-cell
recognition.
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front 14 - 14) An animal cell lacking oligosaccharides on the external
surface of its plasma membrane would likely be impaired in which
function?
- A) transporting ions against an electrochemical
gradient
- B) cell-cell recognition
- C) maintaining
fluidity of the phospholipid bilayer
- D) attaching to the
cytoskeleton
- E) establishing the diffusion barrier to charged
molecules
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front 15 - 15) In the years since the proposal of the fluid mosaic model
of the cell membrane, which of the following observations has been
added to the model?
- A) The membrane is only fluid across a
very narrow temperature range.
- B) Proteins rarely move,
even though they possibly can do so.
- C) Unsaturated lipids
are excluded from the membranes.
- D) The concentration of
protein molecules is now known to be much higher.
- E) The
proteins are known to be made of only acidic amino acids.
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front 16 - 16) A protein that spans the phospholipid bilayer one or more
times is
- A) a transmembrane protein.
- B) an
integral protein.
- C) a peripheral protein.
- D) an
integrin.
- E) a glycoprotein.
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front 17 - 17) Which of these are not embedded in the hydrophobic portion
of the lipid bilayer at all?
- A) transmembrane proteins
- B) integral proteins
- C) peripheral proteins
- D)
integrins
- E) glycoproteins
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front 18 - 18) The cell membranes of Antarctic ice fish might have which
of the following adaptations?
- A) very long chain fatty
acids
- B) branched isoprenoid lipids
- C) a high
percentage of polyunsaturated fatty acids
- D) a higher
percentage of trans-fatty acids
- E) no cholesterol
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front 19 - 19) In a paramecium, cell surface integral membrane proteins
are synthesized
- A) in the cytoplasm by free ribosomes.
- B) by ribosomes in the nucleus.
- C) by ribosomes bound
to the rough endoplasmic reticulum.
- D) by ribosomes in the
Golgi vesicles.
- E) by ribosomes bound to the inner surface
of the plasma membrane.
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front 20 - 20) The formulation of a model for a structure or for a process
serves which of the following purposes?
- A) It asks a
scientific question.
- B) It functions as a testable
hypothesis.
- C) It records observations.
- D) It serves
as a data point among results.
- E) It can only be arrived at
after years of experimentation.
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front 21 - 21) Cell membranes are asymmetrical. Which of the following is
the most likely explanation?
- A) The cell membrane forms a
border between one cell and another in tightly packed tissues
such as epithelium.
- B) Cell membranes communicate
signals from one organism to another.
- C) The two sides
of a cell membrane face different environments and carry out
different functions.
- D) The ʺinnernessʺ and ʺouternessʺ
of membrane surfaces are predetermined by genes.
- E)
Proteins can only be associated with the cell membranes on the
cytoplasmic side.
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front 22 - 22) Which of the following is true of the evolution of cell
membranes?
- A) Cell membranes have stopped evolving now
that they are fluid mosaics.
- B) Cell membranes cannot
evolve if the membrane proteins do not.
- C) The
evolution of cell membranes is driven by the evolution of
glycoproteins and glycolipids.
- D) All components of
membranes evolve in response to natural selection.
- E)
An individual organism selects its preferred type of cell
membrane for particular functions.
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front 23 - 23) Why are lipids and proteins free to move laterally in
membranes?
- A) The interior of the membrane is filled with
liquid water.
- B) Lipids and proteins repulse each other in
the membrane.
- C) Hydrophilic portions of the lipids are in
the interior of the membrane.
- D) There are only weak
hydrophobic interactions in the interior of the membrane.
- E) Molecules such as cellulose can pull them in various
directions.
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front 24 - 24) What kinds of molecules pass through a cell membrane most
easily?
- A) large and hydrophobic
- B) small and
hydrophobic
- C) large polar
- D) ionic
- E)
monosaccharides such as glucose
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front 25 - 25) Which of the following is a characteristic feature of a
carrier protein in a plasma membrane?
- A) It is a peripheral
membrane protein.
- B) It exhibits a specificity for a
particular type of molecule.
- C) It requires the expenditure
of cellular energy to function.
- D) It works against
diffusion.
- E) It has few, if any, hydrophobic amino
acids.
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front 26 - 26) Nitrous oxide gas molecules diffusing across a cellʹs
plasma membrane is an example of
- A) diffusion across the
lipid bilayer.
- B) facilitated diffusion.
- C) active
transport.
- D) osmosis.
- E) cotransport.
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front 27 - 27) Which of the following would likely move through the lipid
bilayer of a plasma membrane most rapidly?
- A) CO2
- B) an amino acid
- C) glucose
- D) K+
- E)
starch
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front 28 - 28) Which of the following statements is correct about
diffusion?
- A) It is very rapid over long distances.
- B) It requires an expenditure of energy by the cell.
- C) It is a passive process in which molecules move from a
region of higher concentration to a region of lower
concentration.
- D) It is an active process in which
molecules move from a region of lower concentration to one of
higher concentration.
- E) It requires integral proteins
in the cell membrane.
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front 29 - 29) Water passes quickly through cell membranes because
- A) the bilayer is hydrophilic.
- B) it moves through
hydrophobic channels.
- C) water movement is tied to ATP
hydrolysis.
- D) it is a small, polar, charged molecule.
- E) it moves through aquaporins in the membrane.
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front 30 - 30) Celery stalks that are immersed in fresh water for several
hours become stiff and hard. Similar stalks left in a 0.15 M salt
solution become limp and soft. From this we can deduce that the
cells of the celery stalks are
- A) hypotonic to both fresh
water and the salt solution.
- B) hypertonic to both fresh
water and the salt solution.
- C) hypertonic to fresh water
but hypotonic to the salt solution.
- D) hypotonic to fresh
water but hypertonic to the salt solution.
- E) isotonic with
fresh water but hypotonic to the salt solution.
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front 31 - 31) Mammalian blood contains the equivalent of 0.15 M NaCl.
Seawater contains the equivalent of 0.45 M NaCl. What will happen if
red blood cells are transferred to seawater?
- A) Water will
leave the cells, causing them to shrivel and collapse.
- B)
NaCl will be exported from the red blood cells by facilitated
diffusion.
- C) The blood cells will take up water, swell, and
eventually burst.
- D) NaCl will passively diffuse into the
red blood cells.
- E) The blood cells will expend ATP for
active transport of NaCl into the cytoplasm.
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front 32 - 32) Which of the following statements correctly describes the
normal tonicity conditions for typical plant and animal cells?
- A) The animal cell is in a hypotonic solution, and the plant
cell is in an isotonic solution.
- B) The animal cell is
in an isotonic solution, and the plant cell is in a hypertonic
solution.
- C) The animal cell is in a hypertonic solution,
and the plant cell is in an isotonic solution.
- D) The
animal cell is in an isotonic solution, and the plant cell is in
a hypotonic solution.
- E) The animal cell is in a
hypertonic solution, and the plant cell is in a hypotonic
solution.
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front 33 - 33) In which of the following would there be the greatest need
for osmoregulation?
- A) an animal connective tissue cell
bathed in isotonic body fluid
- B) cells of a tidepool animal
such as an anemone
- C) a red blood cell surrounded by
plasma
- D) a lymphocyte before it has been taken back into
lymph fluid
- E) a plant being grown hydroponically (in a
watery mixture of designated nutrients)
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front 34 - 34) When a plant cell, such as one from a peony stem, is
submerged in a very hypotonic solution, what is likely to
occur?
- A) The cell will burst.
- B) The cell membrane
will lyse.
- C) Plasmolysis will shrink the interior.
- D) The cell will become flaccid.
- E) The cell will
become turgid.
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front 35 - 35) Which of the following membrane activities require energy
from ATP hydrolysis?
- A) facilitated diffusion of chloride
ions across the membrane through a chloride channel
- B)
movement of water into a cell
- C) Na+ ions moving out of
a mammalian cell bathed in physiological saline
- D)
movement of glucose molecules into a bacterial cell from a
medium containing a higher concentration of glucose than inside
the cell
- E) movement of carbon dioxide out of a
paramecium
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front 36 - 36) The phosphate transport system in bacteria imports
phosphate into the cell even when the concentration of phosphate
outside the cell is much lower than the cytoplasmic phosphate
concentration. Phosphate import depends on a pH gradient across the
membrane–more acidic outside the cell than inside the cell.
Phosphate transport is an example of
- A) passive
diffusion.
- B) facilitated diffusion.
- C) active
transport.
- D) osmosis.
- E) cotransport.
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front 37 - 37) Glucose diffuses slowly through artificial phospholipid
bilayers. The cells lining the small intestine, however, rapidly
move large quantities of glucose from the glucose-rich food into
their glucose-poor cytoplasm. Using this information, which
transport mechanism is most probably functioning in the intestinal
cells?
- A) simple diffusion
- B) phagocytosis
- C) active transport pumps
- D) exocytosis
- E)
facilitated diffusion
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front 38 - 38) What is the voltage across a membrane called?
- A)
water potential
- B) chemical gradient
- C) membrane
potential
- D) osmotic potential
- E) electrochemical
gradient
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front 39 - 39) In most cells, there are electrochemical gradients of many
ions across the plasma membrane even though there are usually only
one or two electrogenic pumps present in the membrane. The gradients
of the other ions are most likely accounted for by
- A)
cotransport proteins.
- B) ion channels.
- C) carrier
proteins.
- D) passive diffusion across the plasma
membrane.
- E) cellular metabolic reactions that create or
destroy ions.
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front 40 - 40) The sodium-potassium pump is called an electrogenic pump
because it A) pumps equal quantities of Na+ and K+ across the
membrane.
- B) pumps hydrogen ions out of the cell.
- C)
contributes to the membrane potential.
- D) ionizes sodium
and potassium atoms.
- E) is used to drive the transport of
other molecules against a concentration gradient.
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front 41 - 41) Which of the following is most likely true of a protein
that cotransports glucose and sodium ions into the intestinal cells
of an animal?
- A) The sodium ions are moving down their
electrochemical gradient while glucose is moving up.
- B)
Glucose entering the cell along its concentration gradient
provides energy for uptake of sodium ions against the
electrochemical gradient.
- C) Sodium ions can move down
their electrochemical gradient through the cotransporter whether
or not glucose is present outside the cell.
- D) The
cotransporter can also transport potassium ions.
- E) A
substance that blocks sodium ions from binding to the
cotransport protein will also block the transport of
glucose.
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front 42 - 42) The movement of potassium into an animal cell requires
- A) low cellular concentrations of sodium.
- B) high
cellular concentrations of potassium.
- C) an energy source
such as ATP.
- D) a cotransport protein.
- E) a
potassium channel protein.
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front 43 - 43) Ions diffuse across membranes through specific ion
channels
- A) down their chemical gradients.
- B) down
their concentration gradients.
- C) down the electrical
gradients.
- D) down their electrochemical gradients.
- E) down the osmotic potential gradients.
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front 44 - 44) Which of the following would increase the electrochemical
potential across a membrane?
- A) a chloride channel
- B) a sucrose-proton cotransporter
- C) a proton pump
- D) a potassium channel
- E) both a proton pump and a
potassium channel
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front 45 - 45) The sodium-potassium pump in animal cells requires
cytoplasmic ATP to pump ions across the plasma membrane. When the
proteins of the pump are first synthesized in the rough ER, what
side of the ER membrane will the ATP binding site be on?
- A)
It will be on the cytoplasmic side of the ER.
- B) It
will be on the side facing the interior of the ER.
- C)
It could be facing in either direction because proteins are
properly reoriented in the Golgi apparatus.
- D) It
doesnʹt matter, because the pump is not active in the ER.
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front 46 - 46) Proton pumps are used in various ways by members of every
domain of organisms: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. What does this
most probably mean?
- A) Proton pumps must have evolved
before any living organisms were present on Earth.
- B)
Proton gradients across a membrane were used by cells that were
the common ancestor of all three domains of life.
- C)
The high concentration of protons in the ancient atmosphere must
have necessitated a pump mechanism.
- D) Cells of each
domain evolved proton pumps independently when oceans became
more acidic.
- E) Proton pumps are necessary to all cell
membranes.
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front 47 - 47) Several epidemic microbial diseases of earlier centuries
incurred high death rates because they resulted in severe
dehydration due to vomiting and diarrhea. Today they are usually not
fatal because we have developed which of the following?
- A)
antiviral medications that are efficient and work well with all
viruses
- B) antibiotics against the viruses in question
- C) intravenous feeding techniques
- D) medication to
prevent blood loss
- E) hydrating drinks that include high
concentrations of salts and glucose
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front 48 - 48) An organism with a cell wall would most likely be unable to
take in materials through
- A) diffusion.
- B)
osmosis.
- C) active transport.
- D) phagocytosis.
- E) facilitated diffusion.
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front 49 - 49) White blood cells engulf bacteria through what
process?
- A) exocytosis
- B) phagocytosis
- C)
pinocytosis
- D) osmosis
- E) receptor-mediated
exocytosis
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front 50 - 50) Familial hypercholesterolemia is characterized by which of
the following?
- A) defective LDL receptors on the cell
membranes
- B) poor attachment of the cholesterol to
the extracellular matrix of cells
- C) a poorly formed
lipid bilayer that cannot incorporate cholesterol into cell
membranes
- D) inhibition of the cholesterol active
transport system in red blood cells
- E) a general lack
of glycolipids in the blood cell membranes
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front 51 - 51) The difference between pinocytosis and receptor-mediated
endocytosis is that
- A) pinocytosis brings only water
molecules into the cell, but receptor-mediated endocytosis
brings in other molecules as well.
- B) pinocytosis
increases the surface area of the plasma membrane whereas
receptor-mediated endocytosis decreases the plasma membrane
surface area.
- C) pinocytosis is nonselective in the
molecules it brings into the cell, whereas receptor-mediated
endocytosis offers more selectivity.
- D) pinocytosis
requires cellular energy, but receptor-mediated endocytosis does
not.
- E) pinocytosis can concentrate substances from the
extracellular fluid, but receptor-mediated endocytosis
cannot.
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front 52 - 52) In receptor-mediated endocytosis, receptor molecules
initially project to the outside of the cell. Where do they end up
after endocytosis?
- A) on the outside of vesicles
- B) on the inside surface of the cell membrane
- C) on the
inside surface of the vesicle
- D) on the outer surface of
the nucleus
- E) on the ER
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front 53 53) A bacterium engulfed by a white blood cell through phagocytosis
will be digested by enzymes contained in
A) peroxisomes.
B) lysosomes.
C) Golgi vesicles.
D) vacuoles.
E) secretory vesicles. | |
front 54 - 54) Which component is the peripheral protein?
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front 55 - 55) Which component is cholesterol?
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front 56 - 56) Which component is the fiber of the extracellular
matrix?
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front 57 - 57) Which component is a microfilament of the
cytoskeleton?
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front 58 - 58) Which component is a glycolipid?
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front 59 - 59) Initially, in terms of tonicity, the solution in side A
with respect to that in side B is
- A) hypotonic.
- B)
plasmolyzed.
- C) isotonic.
- D) saturated.
- E)
hypertonic.
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front 60 - 60) After the system reaches equilibrium, what changes are
observed?
- A) The molarity of sucrose and glucose are equal on
both sides.
- B) The molarity of glucose is higher in side A
than in side B.
- C) The water level is higher in side A than
in side B.
- D) The water level is unchanged.
- E) The
water level is higher in side B than in side A.
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front 61 - 61) At the beginning of the experiment,
- A) side A is
hypertonic to side B.
- B) side A is hypotonic to side
B.
- C) side A is isotonic to side B.
- D) side A is
hypertonic to side B with respect to glucose.
- E) side A is
hypotonic to side B with respect to sodium chloride.
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front 62 - 62) If you examine side A after three days, you should find
- A) a decrease in the concentration of NaCl and glucose
and an increase in the water level.
- B) a decrease in
the concentration of NaCl, an increase in water level, and no
change in the concentration of glucose.
- C) no net
change in the system.
- D) a decrease in the
concentration of NaCl and a decrease in the water level.
- E) no change in the concentration of NaCl and glucose and an
increase in the water level.
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front 63 - 63) Which line in the graph represents the bag that contained a
solution isotonic to the 0.6 M solution at the beginning of the
experiment?
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front 64 - 64) Which line in the graph represents the bag with the highest
initial concentration of sucrose?
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front 65 - 65) Which line or lines in the graph represent(s) bags that
contain a solution that is hypertonic at 50 minutes?
- A) A
and B
- B) B
- C) C
- D) D
- E) D and
E
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front 66 66) What would be observed by live-cell fluorescence microscopy if
the red fluorescent lipid dye-labeled HIV membrane fuses with the
target cell plasma membrane?
- A) A spot of red fluorescence will remain on the infected
cellʹs plasma membrane, marking the site of membrane fusion and HIV
entry.
- B) The red fluorescent dye-labeled lipids will diffuse
in the infected cellʹs plasma membrane and become difficult to
detect.
- C) A spot of red fluorescence will move into the
infected cellʹs cytoplasm.
- D) A spot of red fluorescence
will remain outside the cell after delivering the viral capsid.
- E) Fluorescence microscopy does not have enough resolution to
visualize fluorescently labeled HIV virus particles.
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front 67 - 67) What would be observed by live-cell fluorescence microscopy
if HIV is endocytosed first, and then fuses with the endocytotic
vesicle membrane?
- A) A spot of red fluorescence will remain
on the infected cellʹs plasma membrane, marking the site of
membrane fusion and HIV entry.
- B) The red fluorescent
dye-labeled lipids will diffuse in the endocytotic vesicle
membrane and become difficult to detect.
- C) A spot of
red fluorescence will move into the infected cellʹs
interior.
- D) A spot of red fluorescence will remain
outside the cell after delivering the viral capsid.
- E)
Fluorescence microscopy does not have enough resolution to
visualize fluorescently labeled HIV virus particles.
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front 68 - 68) Using live-cell fluorescence microscopy, researchers
observed that a red fluorescent spot moved from the plasma membrane
into the interior of target cells when red fluorescent dye-labeled
HIV was added to the cells. What is the best conclusion from these
observations?
- A) The hypothesis that HIV enters the cell
via fusion with the target cell plasma membrane is proved.
- B) The hypothesis that HIV enters the cell via fusion with
the target cell plasma membrane is not supported.
- C)
The hypothesis that HIV enters the cell via endocytosis is
proved.
- D) The hypothesis that HIV enters the cell via
endocytosis is not supported.
- E) Neither hypothesis is
supported by these results.
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front 69 - 69) If HIV first enters the cell in an endocytotic vesicle,
instead of directly fusing with the plasma membrane, then
- A) HIV infection should be hindered by microtubule
polymerization inhibitors such as nocodazole.
- B) HIV
infection should be more efficient at lower temperatures.
- C) intact cortical actin microfilaments should interfere
with HIV infection.
- D) cells lacking integrins should
be resistant to HIV infection.
- E) addition of ligands
for other cell-surface receptors to stimulate their endocytosis
should increase the efficiency of HIV infection.
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front 70 70) In an HIV-infected cell producing HIV virus particles, the viral
glycoprotein is expressed on the plasma membrane. How do the viral
glycoproteins get to the plasma membrane?
- A) They are synthesized on ribosomes on the plasma
membrane.
- B) They are synthesized by ribosomes in the rough
ER, and arrive at the plasma membrane in the membrane of secretory
vesicles.
- C) They are synthesized on free cytoplasmic
ribosomes, and then inserted into the plasma membrane.
- D)
They are synthesized by ribosomes in the rough ER, secreted from the
cell, and inserted into the plasma membrane from the outside.
- E) They are synthesized by ribosomes on the HIV viral membrane,
which fuses with the plasma membrane from inside the cell.
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front 71 Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease in humans in which the CFTR
protein, which functions as a chloride ion channel, is missing or
nonfunctional in cell membranes.
- 71) The CFTR protein belongs to what category of membrane
proteins?
- A) gap junctions
- B) aquaporins
- C)
electrogenic ion pumps
- D) cotransporters
- E)
hydrophilic channels
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front 72 Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease in humans in which the CFTR
protein, which functions as a chloride ion channel, is missing or
nonfunctional in cell membranes.
- 72) If the sodium ion concentration outside the cell
increases, and the CFTR channel is open, in what direction will
chloride ions and water move across the cell membrane?
- A)
Chloride ions will move out of the cell, and water will move
into the cell.
- B) Both chloride ions and water will
move out of the cell.
- C) Chloride ions will move into
the cell, and water will move out of the cell.
- D) Both
chloride ions and water will move into the cell.
- E) The
movement of chloride ions and water molecules will not be
affected by changes in sodium ion concentration outside the
cell.
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front 73 - 73) In the small airways of the lung, a thin layer of liquid is
needed between the epithelial cells and the mucus layer in order for
cilia to beat and move the mucus and trapped particles out of the
lung. One hypothesis is that the volume of this airway surface
liquid is regulated osmotically by transport of sodium and chloride
ions across the epithelial cell membrane. How would the lack of a
functional chloride channel in cystic fibrosis patients affect
sodium ion transport and the volume of the airway surface liquid?
- A) Sodium ion transport will increase; higher osmotic
potential will increase airway surface liquid volume.
- B) Sodium ion transport will increase; higher osmotic
potential will decrease airway surface liquid volume.
- C) Sodium ion transport will decrease; lower osmotic
potential will decrease airway surface liquid volume.
- D) Sodium ion transport will decrease; lower osmotic
potential will increase the airway surface liquid volume.
- E) Sodium ion transport will be unaffected; lack of chloride
transport still reduces osmotic potential and decreases the
airway surface liquid volume.
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front 74 - 74) A patient has had a serious accident and lost a lot of
blood. In an attempt to replenish body fluids, distilled water–equal
to the volume of blood lost–is transferred directly into one of his
veins. What will be the most probable result of this transfusion?
- A) It will have no unfavorable effect as long as the
water is free of viruses and bacteria.
- B) The patientʹs
red blood cells will shrivel up because the blood fluid has
become hypotonic compared to the cells.
- C) The
patientʹs red blood cells will swell because the blood fluid has
become hypotonic compared to the cells.
- D) The
patientʹs red blood cells will shrivel up because the blood
fluid has become hypertonic compared to the cells.
- E)
The patientʹs red blood cells will burst because the blood fluid
has become hypertonic compared to the cells.
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front 75 - 75) You are working on a team that is designing a new drug. In
order for this drug to work, it must enter the cytoplasm of specific
target cells. Which of the following would be a factor that
determines whether the molecule selectively enters the target cells?
A) blood or tissue type of the patient B) hydrophobicity of the drug
molecule C) lack of charge on the drug molecule D) similarity of the
drug molecule to other molecules transported by the target cells E)
lipid composition of the target cellsʹ plasma membrane
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front 76 - 76) In what way do the membranes of a eukaryotic cell vary?
- A) Phospholipids are found only in certain
membranes.
- B) Certain proteins are unique to each
membrane.
- C) Only certain membranes of the cell are
selectively permeable.
- D) Only certain membranes are
constructed from amphipathic molecules.
- E) Some
membranes have hydrophobic surfaces exposed to the cytoplasm,
while others have hydrophilic surfaces facing the
cytoplasm.
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front 77 - 77) According to the fluid mosaic model of membrane structure,
proteins of the membrane are mostly A) spread in a continuous layer
over the inner and outer surfaces of the membrane. B) confined to
the hydrophobic interior of the membrane. C) embedded in a lipid
bilayer. D) randomly oriented in the membrane, with no fixed
inside-outside polarity. E) free to depart from the fluid membrane
and dissolve in the surrounding solution.
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front 78 - 78) Which of the following factors would tend to increase
membrane fluidity?
- A) a greater proportion of unsaturated
phospholipids
- B) a greater proportion of saturated
phospholipids
- C) a lower temperature
- D) a
relatively high protein content in the membrane
- E) a
greater proportion of relatively large glycolipids compared with
lipids having smaller molecular masses
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front 79 - 79) Which of the following processes includes all others?
- A) osmosis
- B) diffusion of a solute across a
membrane
- C) facilitated diffusion
- D) passive
transport
- E) transport of an ion down its electrochemical
gradient
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front 80 80) Based on the figure above, which of these experimental treatments
would increase the rate of sucrose transport into the cell?
- A) decreasing extracellular sucrose concentration
- B) decreasing extracellular pH
- C) decreasing
cytoplasmic pH
D) adding an inhibitor that blocks the
regeneration of ATP - E) adding a substance that makes the
membrane more permeable to hydrogen ions
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