Cell Review

Question 1

What makes up the ecosystem?

Answer 1

Abiotic and biotic organisms

Question 2

What does biotic mean?

Answer 2

Alive

Question 3

What does abiotic mean?

Answer 3

Not alive, one example is water. Even though abiotic things are not living, we still need to interact with them and they are necessary for life.

Question 4

What makes up a community?

Answer 4

Divisions that include organisms that interact with each other

Question 5

What are populations made up of?

Answer 5

Different species

Question 6

What are organisms made up of?

Answer 6

1 cell or multiple cells

Question 7

Order of earth’s hierarchy. (Largest to smallest)

Answer 7

Biosphere, ecosystem, community, populations, organisms

Question 8

What is an organ system?

Answer 8

Group of organs working together to perform a specific function

Question 9

What are organs made up of?

Answer 9

Specialized cells with a specific function

Question 10

What are the 4 types of tissues?

Answer 10

Connective, nervous, epithelial, and muscle

Question 11

What are examples of connective tissue?

Answer 11

Tendons, ligaments, and cartilage

Question 12

What are examples of nervous tissue?

Answer 12

Brain and nerve cells

Question 13

What are examples of epithelial tissue?

Answer 13

Coverings/linings: skin, etc.

Question 14

Types of muscle tissue are…

Answer 14

Cardiac, smooth, skeletal

Question 15

What are cells?

Answer 15

The structural & functional units of life

Question 16

What is special about prokaryotic cells?

Answer 16

Can exist in a single form, very ancient, no nucleus, most likely has a flagellum.

Question 17

What is special about eukaryotic cells?

Answer 17

Evolved from prokaryotic cells, has a nucleus, make up an organism, some of these cells have flagellum.

Question 18

Where does glucose go to get converted into ATP?

Answer 18

The mitochondrion

Question 19

What are organelles?

Answer 19

A membrane bound structure in a cell with a specific function. Ex: nucleus

Question 20

What are molecules?

Answer 20

Clusters of atoms held together through bonding. Ex: DNA

Question 21

What are atoms?

Answer 21

A single unit of an element. Ex: protons, neutrons, electrons

Question 22

The more _____ the organism, the more ______ it’s cells are.

Answer 22

Complex, complex

Question 23

What do light microscopes allow you to do?

Answer 23

Look at cells while they’re alive

Question 24

What do electron microscopes require?

Answer 24

The cells must be dead that you are looking at.

Question 25

What is a benefit of an electron microscope?

Answer 25

The image of the cells is extremely high quality.

Question 26

What is a nucleus membrane similar to?

Answer 26

A cell membrane

Question 27

What is passive transport?

Answer 27

When a substance moves through the cell membrane and it does not take any energy to do so

Question 28

What is active transport?

Answer 28

When a substance moves through the cell membrane and it does take energy to do so

Question 29

What does the endoplasmic reticulum do?

Answer 29

It transports proteins

Question 30

What does the mitochondria do?

Answer 30

Produces energy from food

Question 31

What do ribosomes do for a cell?

Answer 31

They produce complex proteins

Question 32

What is one characteristic of the cell membrane?

Answer 32

It is semi permeable

Question 33

What does studying how cells work on the inside help?

Answer 33

It helps finding cures for diseases such as HIV and Lymes disease

Question 34

What contains all the ecosystems?

Answer 34

The biosphere