NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The cytoskeleton is a structure that helps cells maintain their shape and internal organization, and it also provides mechanical support that enables cells to carry out essential functions like division and movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Actin filaments can assemble and disassemble quickly, and this property allows them to play an important role in cell motility (movement), such as the crawling of a white blood cell in your immune system. Finally, actin filaments play key structural roles in the cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Of the three main cytoskeletal fibers, intermediate filaments serve a mainly structural role in cells. Microtubules and microfilaments have dual functions, dynamically maintaining cell shape and enabling cell motility. For example, when attached to the plasma membrane, microfilaments maintain cell shape.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cytoskeleton provides a structural framework for the cell, serving as a scaffold that determines cell shape and the general organization of the cytoplasm. In addition to playing this structural role, the cytoskeleton is responsible for cell movements.

Detailed explanation-5: -The cellular cytoskeleton enables an active delivery of components by providing the ‘tracks’ on which molecular motors can walk. Both the microtubules and microfilaments have specific motor proteins that walk along them. Myosins, for example, walk on microfilaments while dynein and kinesin walk on microtubules.