Cells+

Question 1

The cellular malfunction that occurs when proteins do not properly get modified and folded into their correct 3D shape after they are initially synthesized

Answer 1

Protein misfolding

Question 2

What cell organelle is protein misfolding caused by?

Answer 2

The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

Question 3

Which organelle, if punctured, would leak digestive enzymes into the cell’s cytoplasm?

Answer 3

Lysosome

Question 4

The presence of which structure would indicate that the cell is eukaryotic?

A. Nucleus
B. Cytosol
C. Cell Membrane
D. DNA

Answer 4

A. Nucleus

Question 5

What is the endosymbiotic theory?

Answer 5

The theory that organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-living prokaryotic cells that began to live within a larger host cell

Question 6

Why do prokaryotic cells usually reproduce more quickly than eukaryotic cells?

Answer 6

Eukaryotic cells are more structurally complex than prokaryotic cells