AP Biology: Cell Organelles and Their Functions flashcards

Nucleus, mitochondria, ER, Golgi, chloroplasts and more: what each organelle does. 41 cards. Tap a card to flip it.

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Sources

  • Primary source Glossary (cell biology terms) (National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH, nigms.nih.gov)
  • Primary source Take a Tour of Your Cells' Organelles! (National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH (Biomedical Beat), nigms.nih.gov)
  • Primary source Peroxisomes take shape (Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2013;14:803-817) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Primary source The Nucleolus: Structure and Function (The Functional Nucleus, 2016) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Primary source Choreography of the centrosome (Heliyon 2020;6:e03238) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Primary source A brief history of thylakoid biogenesis (Open Biol 2019;9:180237) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Primary source Polysaccharide Assemblies in Fungal and Plant Cell Walls Explored by Solid-State NMR (Structure 2023;31:1375-1385) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Primary source Structural Polymorphism of Chitin and Chitosan in Fungal Cell Walls From Solid-State NMR and Principal Component Analysis (Front Mol Biosci 2021;8:727053) (PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine, NIH, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  • Second source Biology 2e, 4.3 Eukaryotic Cells (OpenStax, Rice University, openstax.org)
  • Second source Peroxisome (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Lysosome (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Vesicle (biology and chemistry) (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Basal body (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Centrosome (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Chitin (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Cytoplasm (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Ribosome (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Biology 2e, 4.4 The Endomembrane System and Proteins (OpenStax, Rice University, openstax.org)
  • Second source Nucleolus (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Chloroplast (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Biology 2e, 4.5 The Cytoskeleton (OpenStax, Rice University, openstax.org)
  • Second source Biology 2e, 8.1 Overview of Photosynthesis (OpenStax, Rice University, openstax.org)
  • Second source Biology 2e, 8.2 The Light-Dependent Reactions of Photosynthesis (OpenStax, Rice University, openstax.org)
  • Second source Organelle (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)
  • Second source Mitochondrion (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org)

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