Cells

Question 0

How many chromosomes does a somatic cell contain?

Answer 0

23 Pairs

Question 1

What does a cells nucleus house?

Answer 1

DNA within chromosomes

Question 2

How many chromosomes does a gamete contain?

Answer 2

23 unpaired chromosomes

Question 3

Where would you find gamete cells?

Answer 3

Ova & sperm

Question 4

What does the nucleus control

Answer 4

Cell division

Question 5

What is the human diploid number?

Answer 5

46

Question 6

What is the human haploid number?

Answer 6

23

Question 7

What do cells require in order to carry out their functions?

Answer 7

Energy

Question 8

What is the name of the membrane that surrounds a cell?

Answer 8

Plasma membrane

Question 9

What is the purpose of the plasma membrane?

Answer 9

Give the cell its shape & structural integrity & regulate substances in and out of the cell

Question 10

When identical diploid daughter cells divide it is called?

Answer 10

Mitosis

Question 11

What is the purpose of mitosis?

Answer 11

Grow & repair tissue

Question 12

What is the division of non-identical daughter cells called?

Answer 12

Meiosis

Question 13

What organelle in cells manufactures the production of the organelles that synthesize protein?

Answer 13

Nucleus

Question 14

What are the organelles that synthesize new proteins called?

Answer 14

Ribosomes

Question 15

Where are ribosomes found?

Answer 15

Rough ER or in polyribosomes within cytoplasm

Question 16

Which organelle has a double mambrane and produces energy?

Answer 16

Mitochondria

Question 17

What is the inner folded membrane of a Mitochondria called?

Answer 17

Cristae

Question 18

What does the Mitochondria house?

Answer 18

Enzymes involved in metabolism

Question 19

What two elements does the Mitochondria use to produce energy?

Answer 19

Oxygen & glucose

Question 20

What is the equation for aerobic respiration?

Answer 20

Glucose + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water = ENERGY

Question 21

What is energy stored as in a cell?

Answer 21

Adenosine TriPhosphate (ATP)

Question 22

What type of cell does not have a Mitochondria?

Answer 22

Red blood cells

Question 23

What can Mitochodria do that most other organelles cant?

Answer 23

Divide independently of their host cell.

Question 24

Why can Mitochondria divide independently?

Answer 24

They posses DNA

Question 25

What organelle contains enzymes that allow it to digest unwanted materials?

Answer 25

Lysosome

Question 26

Where do lysosomes derive from?

Answer 26

Golgi apparatus

Question 27

What is the Golgi Apparatus?

Answer 27

Series of flattened membranous sacks involved in packaging proteins.

Question 28

What organelle has both smooth & rough varieties?

Answer 28

Endoplasmic Reticulum

Question 29

What is the ER associated with?

Answer 29

Nucleur envelope

Question 30

What is housed in the rough ER & why is it important?

Answer 30

Houses ribosomes. Important in protein synthesis.

Question 31

What is the smooth ER involved in?

Answer 31

Lipid (fat) synthesis

Question 32

What type of membrane transport uses diffusion to move down a concentration gradient and does not require energy?

Answer 32

Passive transport

Question 33

What type of membrane transport is facilitated & requires a protein carrier to assist movement across a membrane?

Answer 33

Carrier mediated transport

Question 34

What type of membrane transport is the movement of water from a solution if more dilute to a solution more concentrated?

Answer 34

Osmosis

Question 35

What membrane transport occurs against a concentration gradient & requires energy from the breakdown of ATP?

Answer 35

Active transport

Question 36

What is the breakdown of ATP called?

Answer 36

Hydrolysis

Question 37

What membrane transport is a way of transporting large quantities of substances/ large particles across plasma membranes?

Answer 37

Bulk transport

Question 38

What is the process in which cell eating & debris engulfing takes place?

Answer 38

Phagocytosis

Question 39

What is exocytosis?

Answer 39

Injected out of cell