How are the products of free ribosomes different from membrane-bound ribosomes?

What will be an ideal response?


Free ribosomes make soluble proteins that function in the cytosol. Membrane-bound ribosomes produce proteins that are to be used on the cell membrane or exported from the cell.

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a. acetylcholine b. Ca2+ c. ATP d. myosin e. actin

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Which lymph trunks receive lymph from the upper limbs?

A) bronchomediastinal trunks B) jugular trunks C) intestinal trunks D) subclavian trunks

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Parturition includes delivery of both the infant and the placenta

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following statements about the liver is FALSE?

a. the liver is supplied with both hepatic arteries and veins b. the inferior mesenteric, splenic, and superior mesenteric veins deliver venous blood to the liver c. the presence of continuous capillaries in the liver allows new plasma proteins made in the hepatocytes to enter the capillaries d. all of the listed responses are true; none is false

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