Use the following information to answer the question. Paulinella chromatophora is one of the few cercozoans that is autotrophic, carrying out aerobic photosynthesis with its two elongated "chromatophores." The chromatophores are contained within vesicles of the host cell, and each is derived from a cyanobacterium, though not the same type of cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chloroplasts of algae and plants. A crucial photosynthetic gene of the cyanobacterium that gave rise to the chromatophore is called psaE. This gene is present in the nuclear genome of the cercozoan, but is not in the genome of the chromatophore. This is evidence of ________.

#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.

#Question id: 2155

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Cholesterol is

a. unrelated to any plant lipids.                     

b. not found in chloroplast membranes.

c. encoded by an intron-containing gene on chromosome 23.

d. relatively abundant in the plasma membrane and endocytic membranes.

e. synthesized in the ER.

#Question id: 2156

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Proteins known to be involved in Golgi apparatus independent transport of lipids include

a. StAR protein.                                 

b. Neimann-Pick C1 (NPC1) protein.

c. HMG CoA reductase.                    

d. acyl:cholesterol acyl transferase (ACAT).

e. cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase.  

#Question id: 2157

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following is not a metabolic derivative of cholesterol?

a. dolichol                  

b. vitamin D               

c. bile acids    

d. v-SNARE molecules                     

e. NSF

#Question id: 2158

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following factors increase(s) the rate of simple (passive) diffusion of a solute across a phospholipid bilayer?