Asbestos is a material that was once used extensively in construction. One risk from working in a building that contains asbestos is the development of asbestosis caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers. Cells will take up asbestos by phagocytosis, but are not able to degrade it. As a result, asbestos fibers accumulate in ________.

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

A ligand-gated ion channel (such as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor) is:

#Question id: 2150

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following increase(s) membrane fluidity?

#Question id: 2151

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true of transmembrane proteins?

a. All contain a hydrophobic α helix.

b. Some serve as membrane attachment sites for peripheral membrane proteins.

c. Some contain more than one membrane-spanning domain.

d. All are asymmetrically oriented in the lipid bilayer.

#Question id: 2152

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Precursors of membrane phospholipids are

a. soluble in the cytosol.                    

b. incorporated into biosynthetic intermediates.

c. sometimes complexed with fatty-acid-binding proteins.

d. stored in glycerolosomes.

e. sometimes activated by conjugation with CDP.

#Question id: 2153

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane phospholipids include

a. cholesterol.            

b. plasmologens.        

c. sphingolipids.         

d. triglycerides.                      

e. bile acids.

#Question id: 2154

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane lipids are distributed appropriately between the two leaflets of a given membrane by

a. dockases.    

b. trumpases.              

c. fatty acid desaturases.        

d. flippases.    

e. transmembrane tunnelases.