Questions:

Q1. What are peroxisomes? Name the important function of peroxisomes.
Q2. What is the difference between vacuoles of plant and animal cells?
Q3. How are fatty acids degraded in peroxisomes?
Q5.Name an essential function of peroxisome whose abnormality affects nerve cells.
Q6.What is the role of specific signal sequences in perixisomal proteins?
Q7. Illustrate the structure and function of chloroplast?
Q8. Write about chloroplast genome?
Q9. What is the function of plant vacuoles.
Q10. Name a disease caused due to peroxisomal disorder.

 

Further readings

1. Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4th edition. New York: Garland Science; 2002.
2. Cooper GM. Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates; 2000. The Cell: A Molecular Approach. 2nd edition.
3. Deng, X. W., R.A. Wing, W. Gruissem. 1989. The chloroplast genome exists in multimeric forms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86:4156-4160.
4. Davidson M W (1995-2012). Molecular expressions. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/index.html.
5. Martya F (1999). Plant Vacuoles. Plant Cell 11:587-600.