KINE 2011- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 205 pages long!)

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Cell 3 subdivisions: plasma membrane- encloses cell, nucleus- contains cells genetic information, cytoplasm. Nucleus: nucleus is surrounded by a double-layered membrane, nuclear envelope separates nucleus from cytoplasm, nuclear pore: piercing in nuclear envelop. Mrna delivers coded messaged to ribosomes: ribosomal rna: they read mrna & translate it into correct amino acid sequence for protein being synthesized, transfer rna: transfers appropriate aa within cytoplasm to their designated site in the protein synthesis. How products of photosy(cid:374)thesis sustai(cid:374)s (cid:373)ost orga(cid:374)is(cid:373)s: describe how products of photosynthesis sustain most organisms on earth. Oxygen is essential for all animals & organisms as it is a reactant in cellular respirations. It acts as a final electrons acceptor in cellular respiration: list & describe the states of oxygenic photosynthesis. What occurs at each stage in brief: when carbon dioxide is low, rubisco catalyzes the reactions of oxygen with rubp instead of carbon dioxide. In this case, rubisco is considered a oxygenase.