Dropping Signals Web Activity(1).pdf 5f3if

Cell Communication: Dropping Signals Complete the activity found at the http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cells/signals/ website. Record the effect of each signal on each cell type in the table below.

Specialized cell type in the retina of the eye

Genetically changed skin cell with altered behavior

Produce sugar in plant leaves

Responsible for structural frameworks in body tissue

Muscle

Photoreceptor

Skin cancer

Leaf parenchyma

Fibroblast

A gas produced by cells

Nitric Oxide Cytokine

Dividing to make 2 cells

Hormone

Does not respond

A growth factor in the form of a small protein molecule

Light

Contain proteins that allow them to contract

A small protein molecule that travels through the blood stream

SIGNALS

Energy that travels freely through space

CELL TYPES

Talking up nutrients from RBC

Relax

Generates signal that relays to brain

Light adaptation

Does not respond

Does not respond

Damages cell DNA

undergo photosynthesis

apoptosis

grow and divide

growing and dividing rapidly

does not respond

unstuck from neighbors and migrating

does not respond

does not respond

differentiate into myofibroblast

dividing and moving

producing and releasing proteins