BI110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biosis Previews, Horizontal Gene Transfer, Fatty Acid Metabolism

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Cells compose organisms or they can be organisms! Unicellular organisms consist of a single cell. Multicellular organisms can have specialized cells for different functions, but the cells have the same basic structure. *unicellular and multicellular does not necessarily mean prokaryotic and eukaryotic! 1. all organisms are composed of one or more cells. 2. cells are the basic structural and functional unit of life. Large cells have less surface area per unit volume. Large cells are less capable of transporting materials across plasma membrane. If you double the radius of a cell, it will increase the surface area by 4 and the volume by 8. All types of cells share basic features: o o. Cytoskeleton: dna organized into chromosomes (replication) o. On one circular chromosome within a nucleoid and. On plasmids that can be transferred among individuals through a process called conjugation. Synthetic cells were first reported in 2010. Bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic are all slightly different.

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