microtubules 25-nm diameter actin filaments 7-nm diameter intermediate filaments 10-nm diameter

Q: What are the main cytoplasmic structures present in animal cells?

A: Animal cells are a kind of eukaryotic cell consisting of membrane bound nucleus and cell organelles…

Q: Name the rigid layer present outside the cytoplasmic membrane

A: The three major components of the cell include the nucleus, cell membrane, and cytoplasm. The former…

Q: In which types of cell, the nucleus is the most important and defining organelle? Why is the nucleus…

A: In Eukaryotic Cell nucleus is the most important and defining organelle.

Q: What are cilia and flagella? How do these structures acquire movement? What are some examples of…

A: Flagella and cilia are the projections from the cell. These are composed of microtubules. These are…

Q: Is the outer membrane part of the cell wall?

A: Cell wall is the protective, semi-permeable outer layer of plant cell, whose major function is to…

Q: How does the microtubule assembly produce the bending movements of flagella and motile cilia?

A: Microtubules are polymers of tubulin that design part of the cytoskeleton and give development and…

Q: How does the cell package substances that are to be secreted by exocytosis into vesicles?

A: As we know cell membrane is semipermeable and it allows movement of various molecules, gases,…

Q: What is the advantage of having a highly invaginatedinner membrane?

A: Mitochondria and chloroplast are two of the distinct organelles on which the theory of endosymbiosis…

Q: when does the cytokinesis start and what is the shallow groove called that indicates cell division?

A: Cell division is the biological process that results in the production of two or more cells from a…

Q: Describe the features of the rough endoplasmic reticulum?

A: The rough ER is characterized by the presence of membrane-bound ribosomes that provides it a…

Q: What are the three cytoskeleton structures?

A: Cytoskeleton is a network of protein fibres that support cell shape and organelles that remain…

Q: List the three types of fibers in the cytoskeleton.

A: Cytoskeleton can be defined as the system of fibers or filaments which are located in the cytoplasm…

Q: Does the cytoplasmic membrane of prokaryotic cellsprovide shape and rigid support to the cell?

A: Cell boundaries are the outer most protective layer of the cells, which are designed in a way that…

Q: Draw the following cell structures and organelles and provide the function of each: plasma membrane,…

A: A cell is a basic unit of life. All the metabolic pathways responsible for proper function of the…

Q: Contrast the structure and functions of the cytoskeleton with thestructure and functions of the…

A: Introduction  Our body is formed of various cells. These large number of cells are arranged in a…

Q: What is the functional difference between cilia and flagella?

A: Different organisms move through different methods in the search of their food, host, and for…

Q: What is cell wall

A: Any aqueous compartment that is surrounded by a plasma membrane is defined as a cell. Every cell…

Q: Describe the composition and functions of thecytoskeleton.

A: Introduction  Our body is formed of various cells. These large number of cells are arranged in a…

Q: How flagella do locomotion?

A: A flagella is a hair like structure that protrudes out from the cell body of prokaryotic and…

Q: What is flagellum and its diagram?

A: Flagellum is a thread like structure found in prokaryotes as well as in eukaryotes which play a key…

Q: Which organelle are membrane proteins in when they first become membrane proteins? How did the…

A: Common proteins that are a component of or interact with biological membranes are known as membrane…

Q: How are animal cell tight junctions and desmosomes (aka adhesion junctions) different?

A: Tight junctions form a water tight seal and prevent material from passing between cells. Desmosomes…

Q: How is the cell’s cytoskeleton held together?

A: The cytoskeleton is a cell "platform" or "skeleton" that crisscrosses the cytoplasm. All eukaryotic…

Q: What makesup the eukaryotic cell cytoskeleton?

A: The cytoskeleton is present in the cytosol of eukaryotic cells, and many protein and tubules are…

Q: Is the outer membrane more selective or lessselective than the cytoplasmic membrane?

A: Step 1 The cytoplasmic membrane is also known as (plasma membrane or cell membrane) occurs both…

Q: Give distinguishing features of cilias, sterocillia, microvilli.

A: Cellular protrusion are highly dynamic structures involved in the fundamental processes of cell…

Q: What is the function of porins and where are they located in agram-negative cell wall?

A: Bacteria according to their cell wall structure are divided into two types namely : gram-negative…

Q: Does golgi apparatus form plasma membrane and lysosomes?? How?

A: Golgi apparatus is a membrane-bound organelle that is present in the eukaryotic cells. Its primary…

Q: List the three types of filaments associated with the cytoskeleton. Identify the structures in cells…

A: In the cytoplasm of cells, there exists a network of protein filaments called the cytoskeleton which…

Osmosis

In simple words, osmosis is the slow, gradual movement of a liquid through a membrane. But there are nuances to this process. For instance, there has to be an imbalance in the distribution of solute in the liquid on either side of the membrane, which has to be semipermeable. The liquid in the region with a lower solute concentration moves to the region with a higher concentration, thereby displacing the solution in the process. The objective is to equalize the concentration of molecules on both sides of the membrane; the displacement of liquid can be viewed as a byproduct of this equalization. Since there is no energy required to carry osmosis, it is considered a passive process.