Cells and classification (1a,b,c, not in r guide)

Question 0

What is the name given to the type of cell with tiny hairs along one surface?

Answer 0

Ciliated cell

Question 1

What do plant cells have that animal cells don’t?

Answer 1

Cell wall, sap vacuole, chloroplasts.

Question 2

Where would you find a ciliated cell?

Answer 2

In the respiratory tract, on the way into the lungs

Question 3

What do ciliated cells do?

Answer 3

Sweep the passages clean

Question 4

Why do root hair cells have long bits sticking out the side?

Answer 4

To increase surface area so more water can be absorbed

Question 5

What is unusual about a red blood cell?

Answer 5

It has no nucleus

Question 6

What are the two types of key used for identification of species?

Answer 6

Numbered and branching

Question 7

What are chloroplasts for?

Answer 7

They carry out photosynthesis

Question 8

What happens in photosynthesis?

Answer 8

Plants use carbon dioxide and water along with sunlight to make glucose and oxygen.

Question 9

What is the name of the platform you put the slide on in a microscope?

Answer 9

Stage

Question 10

Name three characteristics of mammals.

Answer 10

Have fur, produce milk and have live babies

Question 11

Name two characteristics of fish.

Answer 11

Wet scaley skin, lay eggs in water,

Question 12

Name two characteristics of amphibians

Answer 12

Wet skin, lays eggs in water but can live on land.

Question 13

What are the five kingdom

Answer 13

Animals, plants, bacteria, protists, fungi

Question 14

What Kingdom do mushrooms belong to?

Answer 14

Fungi

Question 15

What role does the cell membrane do?

Answer 15

Controls what goes in and out of the cell

Question 16

What does the nucleus do?

Answer 16

Contains all genetic information

Question 17

What do several cells build up to make?

Answer 17

Tissues

Question 18

What do several tissues build up to make?

Answer 18

Organs

Question 19

What name is given to a group of organs working together? E.g. stomach, intestines, mouth

Answer 19

System (examples are from the digestive system)

Question 20

What is it called when the head of a sperm cell enters the ovum and the nuclei (two nucleuses) fuse together?

Answer 20

Fertilisation

Question 21

Both plants and animal cells have mitochondria, what do they do?

Answer 21

Release energy. Aerobic respiration happens there. Mitochondria are often called the power house of the cell.

Question 22

Name a stain used to see nuclei in cells.

Answer 22

methylene blue