NORMAL CELL STRUCTURE

I. Fundamentals of Normal • Schwann also cofounded the cell

Histology theory
Normal Cell Structure: Basic
• In 1855, a German medical doctor
Structure of a Cell named Rudolph Virchow observed,
under the microscope, cells dividing
• He reasoned that all cells come from
other pre-existing cells by cell division
CELL THEORY

• All living things are made of cells

• Cells are the basic unit of structure and
function in an organism (basic unit of
life)
• Cells come from the reproduction of
existing cells (cell division)
Simple or Complex Cells:
First to View Cells:
• Cells that lack a nucleus or membrane-
• In 1665, Robert Hooke used a bound organelles
microscope to
examine a thin slice of cork (dead plant • Includes bacteria
cells) • Simplest type of cell
• What he saw looked like small boxes
• Single, circular chromosome
• Hooke is responsible for naming cells
Prokaryotes
• Hooke called them “CELLS” because
they looked like the small rooms that • Nucleoid region (center) contains the
monks lived in called Cells DNA

Anton van Leeuwenhoek • Surrounded by cell membrane & cell

wall (peptidoglycan)
• In 1673, Leeuwenhoek (a Dutch
microscope maker), was first to view • Contain ribosomes (no membrane) in
organism (living things) their cytoplasm to make proteins

• Leeuwenhoek used a simple, handheld

microscope to view pond water &
scrapings from his teeth
Beginning of the Cell Theory
• In 1838, a German botanist named
Matthias Schleiden concluded that all
plants were made of cells
• Schleiden is a cofounder of the cell
theory
• In 1839, a German zoologist named
Theodore Schwann concluded that all
animals were made of cells
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Eukaryotes Cell or Plasma Membrane

• Cells that HAVE a nucleus and • Composed of double layer of
membrane-bound organelles phospholipids and proteins
• Includes protists, fungi, plants, and • Surrounds outside of ALL cells
animals
• Controls what enters or leaves the cell
• More complex type of cells
• Living layer

Phospholipids
• Heads contain glycerol & phosphate
and are hydrophilic (attract water)
Eukaryotic Cell • Tails are made of fatty acids and are
hydrophobic (repel water)
Contain 3 basic cell structures:
• Make up a bilayer where tails point
• Nucleus
inward toward each other
• Cell Membrane
• Can move laterally to allow small
• Cytoplasm with organelles molecules (O2, CO2, & H2O to enter)

Two Main Types of Eukaryotic Cells The Cell Membrane is Fluid

• Plant Cell
• Animal Cell
Organelles
• Very small (Microscopic)
• Perform various functions for a cell
• Found in the cytoplasm
• May or may not be membrane-bound
Molecules in cell membranes are constantly
moving and changing
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Cell Membrane in Plants Nuclear Envelope

• Lies immediately against the cell wall • Double membrane surrounding
in plant cells nucleus
• Pushes out against the cell wall to • Also called nuclear membrane
maintain cell shape • Contains nuclear pores for materials
to enter & leave nucleus
Cell Wall
Inside the Nucleus
• Found outside of the cell membrane
• Nonliving layer • The genetic material (DNA) is found
• Supports and protects cell
• Found in plants, fungi, & bacteria

Cytoplasm of a Cell

• Jelly-like substance enclosed by cell

membrane
• Provides a medium for chemical
• DNA is spread out and appears as
reactions to take place
CHROMATIN in non-dividing cells
More on Cytoplasm • DNA is condensed & wrapped around
proteins forming as CHROMOSOMES
• Contains organelles to carry out
in dividing cells
specific jobs
What Does DNA do?
The Control Organelle - Nucleus
• DNA is the hereditary material of the
• Controls the normal
cell
activities of the cell
• Genes that make up the DNA molecule
• Contains the DNA in chromosomes
code for different proteins
• Bounded by a
nuclear envelope (membrane) with Nucleolus
pores
• Inside nucleus
• Usually, the largest organelle
• Disappears when cell divides
More on the Nucleus • Makes ribosomes that make proteins

• Each cell has fixed

number of chromosomes that carry
genes
• Genes control cell characteristics

Cytoskeleton

• Helps cell maintain cell shape

• Also help move organelles around
• Made of proteins
• Microfilaments are threadlike &
made of ACTIN
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• Microtubules are tubelike & made

of TUBULIN

Interesting Fact:

Mitochondria Come from cytoplasm in the

Centrioles EGG cell during fertilization. Therefore, you
inherit your mitochondria from your mother!
• Found only in animal cells
Endoplasmic Reticulum – ER
• Paired structures near nucleus
• Network of hollow membrane tubules
• Made of bundle of microtubules
• Connects to nuclear envelope & cell
• Appear during cell division forming membrane
mitotic spindle
• Functions in Synthesis of cell products
• Help to pull chromosome pairs apart & Transport
to opposite ends of the cell
• Two kinds of ER ---ROUGH & SMOOTH
Mitochondrion (plural = mitochondria)
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough ER)
• “Powerhouse” of the cell
• Has ribosomes on its surface
• Generate cellular energy (ATP)
• Makes membrane proteins and
• More active cells like muscle cells
proteins for export out of cell
have MORE mitochondria
• Proteins are made by ribosomes on ER
• Both plants & animal cells have
mitochondria surface

• Site of CELLULAR RESPIRATION • They are then threaded into the

(burning glucose) interior of the Rough ER to be modified
and
MITOCHONDRIA transported
• Surrounded by a DOUBLE membrane Functions of the Smooth ER
• Has its own DNA
• Makes membrane lipids (steroids)
• Folded inner membrane called
• Regulates calcium (muscle cells)
CRISTAE (increases surface area
for more chemical Reactions) • Destroys toxic substances (Liver)
• Interior called MATRIX
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Endomembrane System Lysosomes

• Contain digestive enzymes

• Break down food, bacteria, and worn-

out cell parts for cells

• Programmed for cell death

(APOPTOSIS)

• Lyse & release enzymes to break

down & recycle cell parts)

Lysosome Digestion

• Includes nuclear membrane • Cells take in food by phagocytosis

connected to ER connected to cell
• Lysosomes digest the food & get rid of
membrane (transport)
wastes
Ribosomes
Cilia & Flagella
• Made of PROTEINS and rRNA
• Function in moving cells, in moving
• “Protein factories” for cell fluids, or in small particles across the
cell surface
• Join amino acids to make proteins
through protein synthesis • Cilia are shorter and more numerous
on cells
• Can be attached to
Rough ER or Be free (unattached) in • Flagella are longer and fewer (usually
the cytoplasm 1-3) on cells
Golgi Bodies Chloroplasts
• Stacks of flattened sacs • Found only in producers (organisms
• Have a shipping side (cis face) & a containing chlorophyll)
receiving side (trans face) • Use energy from sunlight to make own
• Receive proteins made by ER food (glucose)

• Transport vesicles with modified • Energy from sun stored in the

proteins pinch off the ends Chemical Bonds of Sugars

• Look like a stack of pancakes Vacuoles

• Modify, sort, & package molecules • Fluid filled sacks for storage
from ER for storage OR
transport out of cell • Small or absent in animal cells

• Materials are transported from Rough • Plant cells have a large Central Vacuole
ER to Golgi to the cell membrane by
VESICLES
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• In plants, they store Cell Sap Selective Permeability

• Includes storage of sugars, proteins, • The plasma membrane allows some

minerals, lipids, wastes, salts, water, materials to pass while excluding
and enzymes others

Chloroplasts • This permeability includes movement

into and out of the cell
• Surrounded by DOUBLE membrane
Passive Transport Processes
• Outer membrane smooth
• Diffusion
• Inner membrane modified into sacs
called Thylakoids – Particles tend to distribute
themselves evenly within a
• Thylakoids in stacks called Grana &
solution
interconnected
– Movement is
• Stroma – gel like material surrounding
from high
thylakoids
concentration
Cellular Physiology: Membrane Transport to low
concentration,
• Membrane Transport – movement of or down a
substance into and out of the cell concentration
• Transport is by two basic methods gradient

– Passive transport • Types of diffusion

• No energy is required – Simple diffusion

– Active transport • Unassisted process

• The cell must provide • Solutes are lipid-

metabolic energy soluble materials or
small enough to pass
Solutions and Transport through membrane
• Solution – homogeneous mixture of pores
two or more components – Osmosis – simple diffusion
– Solvent – dissolving medium of water

– Solutes – components in • Highly polar water

smaller quantities within a easily crosses the
solution plasma membrane

• Intracellular fluid – nucleoplasm and – Facilitated diffusion

cytosol • Substances require a
• Interstitial fluid – fluid on the exterior protein carrier for
of the cell passive transport
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Diffusion through the Plasma Membrane Endocytosis

• Filtration Extracellular - engulfs substances by enclosing

in a membranous vescicle
– Water and solutes are forced
through a membrane by fluid, 2 types
or hydrostatic pressure
1. Phagocytosis – cell eating
– A pressure gradient must exist
2. Pinocytosis – cell drinking
• Solute-containing
The Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis
fluid is pushed from a
high-pressure area to • Actively dividing eukaryote cells pass
a lower pressure area through a series of stages known
collectively as the cell cycle: two gap
Active Transport Processes
phases (G1 and G2); an S (for
• Transport substances that are unable synthesis) phase, in which the genetic
to pass by diffusion material is duplicated; and an M
phase, in which mitosis partitions the
– They may be too large
genetic material and the cell divides.
– They may not be able to
• G1 phase. Metabolic changes prepare
dissolve in the fat core of the
the cell for division. At a certain point
membrane
- the restriction point - the cell is
– They may have to move committed to division and moves into
against a concentration the S phase.
gradient
• S phase. DNA synthesis replicates the
• Two common forms of active genetic material. Each chromosome
transport now consists of two sister chromatids.

– Solute pumping – chemical • G2 phase. Metabolic changes

exchanges assemble the cytoplasmic materials
necessary for mitosis and cytokinesis.
– Bulk transport – exocytosis
• M phase. A nuclear division (mitosis)
Exocytosis
followed by a cell division
(cytokinesis).

Protein Synthesis

• Gene – DNA segment that carries a

blueprint for building one protein

• Proteins have many functions

– Building materials for cells

– Act as enzymes (biological

catalysts)

• RNA is essential for protein synthesis

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Cell Life Cycle – Results in the formation of

two daughter nuclei
• Cells have two major periods
• Cytokinesis
– Interphase
– Division of the cytoplasm
• Cell grows
– Begins when mitosis is near
• Cell carries on completion
metabolic processes
– Results in the formation of
– Cell division
two daughter cells
• Cell replicates itself Meiosis
• Function is to produce • Meiosis is the form of eukaryotic cell
more cells for growth
division that produces haploid sex cells
and repair processes or gametes (which contain a single
DNA Replication copy of each chromosome) from
diploid cells (which contain two copies
• Genetic material duplicated and of each chromosome).
readies a cell for division into two
cells • The process takes the form of one DNA
replication followed by two successive
• Occurs toward the end of interphase nuclear and cellular divisions (Meiosis
• DNA uncoils and each side serves I and Meiosis II).
as a template • As in mitosis, meiosis is preceded by a
process of DNA replication that
converts each chromosome into two
sister chromatids.
Stages of Mitosis
• Interphase
– No cell division occurs
– The cell carries out normal
metabolic activity and growth
• Prophase
– First part of cell division
– Centromeres migrate to the
poles
• Metaphase
– Spindle from centromeres are
attached to chromosomes
that are aligned in the center
Events of Cell Division
of the cell
• Mitosis
• Anaphase
– Division of the nucleus – Daughter chromosomes are
pulled toward the poles
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– The cell begins to elongate

• Telophase
– Daughter nuclei begin forming
– A cleavage furrow (for cell
division) begins to form
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