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• Sodium -✓✓Main ECF ion.
• Potassium -✓✓Main ICF ion.
• Mitochondria -✓✓Organelle that produces ATP.
• Ribosomes -✓✓Organelles responsible for protein synthesis.
• Lysosomes -✓✓Organelles that degrade and recycle waste.
• Peroxisomes -✓✓Organelles that break down chemicals into H202, produces free
radicals.
• Golgi Apparatus -✓✓Organelle responsible for packaging and distribution.
• Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum -✓✓Organelle that synthesizes steroids and
detoxification.
• Tight Junction -✓✓Impermeable junction; strength.
, • Gap Junction -✓✓Junction that allows for conductivity, synchronizes
contractions of cardiac muscle through ionic coupling.
• Desmosomes -✓✓Junctions that hold cells together by continuous bands or belts
of epithelial sheets or button-like points of contact.
• Diffusion, Facilitated Diffusion, and Osmosis -✓✓Non-energy forms of
transport.
• Active Transport -✓✓Energy-requiring movement of molecules across a
membrane, example is Na/K pump.
• Hypotonic Fluid -✓✓Causes cells to swell.
• Hypertonic Fluid -✓✓Causes cells to srhink.
• 36 ATP -✓✓How many ATP are produced in aerobic respiration?
• 2 ATP -✓✓How much ATP can anaerobic respiration make?
• Hypoxia -✓✓#1 cause of cellular injury.
• Lactic Acid -✓✓Indication of cell death. Build up leads to metabolic acidosis.