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High-Tech Movies Reveal Information Transfer Within Cells

Cell, 8 Feb. 2002

Dartmouth Medical School biochemists have devised a high-tech way to watch, in living color, how cells fuse, and what they have seen upends prior assumptions about the ways cell components transfer chemical information.

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Active Reading Questions

  1. The article describes how materials are transported within cells inside membrane-bound compartments. According to your text, these membrane-bound compartments are called
    a) blebs.
    b) vesicles.
    c) mitochondria.
    d) transport proteins.
  2. Specialized forms of endocytosis result from slightly different types of membrane interactions. Which of the following is a specialized form of endocytosis?
    a) pinocytosis
    b) receptor-mediated endocytosis
    c) phagocytosis
    d) all of the above
  3. Your book describes how vesicles interact with the cell membrane during exocytosis. How does the model described in this article differ from the model of interactions described in your text?
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