MBG 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Endoplasmic Reticulum, Lipid Bilayer, Cell Membrane

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Cells are the fundamental units of life and comprise the human body. Inherited traits and illnesses can be understood at the cellular and molecular level. All cells share certain features, but they are also specialized because they express different subsets of genes. Somatic (body) cells are diploid and sperm and eggs cells are haploid. They consist mostly of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. They include the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum (er), golgi apparatus, mitochondria, lysosomes and peroxisomes. The plasma membrane is a flexible, selective, phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins and lipid rafts. The cytoskeleton is an inner framework made of protein rods and tubules, connectors and motor molecules. Prokaryotic cells are small and lack nuclei and other organelles. Eukaryotic cells have organelles, and their dna is in a nucleus. Cells consist primarily of water and several types of macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acid.

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