BIOL 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plasmodesma, Cell Wall, Plant Cell
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Both are eukaryotes: other membrane bound organelles, both need to carry energy; mitochondria. Name a feature that is common to plant and animal cells: common ancestors. Plant: chloroplasts, central vacuole (play some role as animal lysosomes, plasmodesma, cell wall. Animal: centrosomes, lysosomes, cilia (some animal cells have, gap junctions, tight junctions, desmosomes. Besides phospholipids, cell membranes also contain proteins: transport proteins, enzymes, recognition proteins, adhesion proteins, receptor proteins. Cholesterol is going to dissolve in the tail of membrane: helps membrane to be more fluid because it dissolves in between those tails, does its job because of the hydrophobic molecule. Plants have different molecule (don"t use cholesterol) If membrane is too saturated more likely to be solid at room temp: lipids have to move around for it to function well. They allow cells to have special areas to do set of reactions: just like organs in your body.
