Bio Unit 1

Question 1

What’s the difference between monocular and binocular microscopes

Answer 1

Mono use one eye

Bino uses two eyes

Question 2

How do you find the magnification

Answer 2

Multiply the the object number by the eyepiece

Question 3

How do you carry the microscope

Answer 3

Carry the Microscope by the base and arm

Question 4

How do you categorise cells

Answer 4

By the presence and absence of particular organelles

Question 5

Why are cells small

Answer 5

So they can take in substances quickly and discrete waste

Question 6

What is in the Cell membranes

Answer 6

Most cells have a cell membrane made of cytosol and ribosome.

Question 7

What does the cell membranes do

Answer 7

Regulates the movement of substances into and out of the cell.

Question 8

Why doesn’t Unicellular cells have cell membrane

Answer 8

Because they can carry out the same process without a cell membrane

Question 9

How do cells reproduce

Answer 9

By splitting into 2

Question 10

Five kingdoms

Answer 10

Protocitista 
Animalia 
Plante
Fungi
Prokaryotes

Question 11

What are multicellular made up of

Answer 11

Different cells with different jobs. Those cells have particular structures

Question 12

Nucleus

Answer 12

Controlling centre of cell

Question 13

Mitochondria

Answer 13

Energy, power pack, deals with cell respiration

Question 14

Chloroplast

Answer 14

On,h I’m plants

Uses energy from the sun to make food

Question 15

Vacuoles

Answer 15

Stores water

Question 16

Golgi bodies

Answer 16

Packages protein into membrane

Question 17

Cell wall

Answer 17

Makes the plant cell rigid

Question 18

Mitochondria and chloroplast are ….

Answer 18

Membrane- bound organelles

Question 19

Mitochondria is found in …

Answer 19

All cells as they are involved in cellular respiration

Question 20

What cells are chloroplasts found in

Answer 20

Cells that photosynthesis

Question 21

How to make a wet mount

Answer 21

1. Put a drop of water on a pipette
2. Place cover slip over by putting one edge down first
3. Use microscope

Question 22

Microscope

Answer 22

An instrument for viewing small objects

Question 23

Cells

Answer 23

Smallest unit of life
Building block of living things
Different sizes and shapes

Question 24

Light microscope

Answer 24

Uses light to magnify things up to 1500 times bigger

Question 25

Electron microscope

Answer 25

More powerful then light microscope and magnify things up to a million times

Question 26

Unicellular

Answer 26

Having only one cell

Question 27

Multicellular

Answer 27

Having many cells

Most plant and animal cell

Question 28

Micrometer

Answer 28

A length of one millionth of a metre

Question 29

Nanometer

Answer 29

A unit of measurement equal to one billionth of a metre

Question 30

Nanotechnology

Answer 30

A rapidly developing technology for studying cells and other small objects

Question 31

Prokaryotes

Answer 31

Single cell that doesn’t have a membrane or nucleus

Question 32

Eukaryote

Answer 32

Has a membrane around the nucleus in each of the cells

Question 33

Binary fission

Answer 33

Reproduction by the division of an organism into two new organisms (usually single celled)

Question 34

What is a Cell membrane

Answer 34

Structure that encloses the contents of a cell and allows the movement of some minerals in and out

Question 35

Cytosol

Answer 35

The fluid found inside cells

Question 36

Ribosomes

Answer 36

Small structures within cell in which proteins are made

Question 37

Metabolism

Answer 37

The chemical reaction occurring that allows the organism to use energy and grow and repair

Question 38

Chloroplast

Answer 38

Oval shaped organelle found only in plants

Photosynthesis

Question 39

Cellular respiration

Answer 39

The chemical process that moves energy in glucose into the compound

Question 40

Organelle

Answer 40

Small structure in a cell with a special function