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BIO 204 Week 1 Individual Assignment Plant Cell Organelles and
Their Functions
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What is the interdependent relationship between mitochondria and other
organelles?
What are similarities and differences between the Golgi apparatus and
the large central vacuole?
What is the function of chloroplast? Include functions of stroma and
grana.
Explain the function of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum and rough
endoplasmic reticulum. How are their functions similar to the nucleus’?
How are they different?
Provide three unique chemical or physical properties of water. How are
these properties useful to water movement in plant cells?
Discuss similarities and differences between bulk flow and diffusion.
What are driving forces behind each process?
Describe Fick’s law. How might this law be applied to osmosis? Explain
how osmosis is a special case of diffusion.
What role does solute concentration play in osmosis? How does water’s
chemical potential influence osmosis? What role do water properties
play in diffusion?
Distinguish between osmotic pressure and potential. What organelle is
related to osmotic potential?
What role do aquaporins play in cell membrane permeability? What
controls the gating of aquaporins?
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