Cells Quiz Review 1 + 2

Question 1

What is the basic unit of structure and function of all living things?

Answer 1

Cells

Question 2

What separates the cell from its external environment and from neighboring cells?

Answer 2

Plasma/cell membrane

Question 3

The brain for the control of the cells metabolic activities and cell division

Answer 3

Nucleus

Question 4

Allows for a cell movement

Answer 4

Cilia and flagella

Question 5

Serves as a site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP) stores ATP.

Answer 5

Mitochondria

Question 6

What is the reservoir for RNA?

Answer 6

Nucleolus

Question 7

Holds DNA and protein material in a loose and diffuse state. During mitosis this organelle condenses to form the chromosomes.

Answer 7

Chromatin

Question 8

Contains two centrioles that are functional during animal cell division

Answer 8

Centrosomes

Question 9

Provides a passage for the transport of substances in cytoplasm

Answer 9

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)

Question 10

Manufactures carbohydrates and PACKAGES secretions for discharge from the cell

Answer 10

Golgi apparatus

Question 11

Serves as a site for protein synthesis

Answer 11

Ribosomes

Question 12

Is a nuclear material that determines hereditary characteristics

Answer 12

Chromosomes

Question 13

Is a center for cellular digestion

Answer 13

Lysosomes

Question 14

Regulates transport of substance into and out of the cell

Answer 14

Nuclear membrane

Question 15

A clear, semi-liquid medium that fills the space around the chromatin and the nucleoli (NEW WORD)

Answer 15

Nucleoplasm.

Question 16

What provides an organized watery environment where life functions take place via the activities of the organelles?

Answer 16

Cytoplasm

Question 17

An enzymes that oxidize cell substances. (NEW WORD)

Answer 17

Peroxisomes

Question 18

Involves reproduction of a human

Answer 18

Meiosis

Question 19

Involves the growth and maintenance of a cell or human.

Answer 19

Mitosis

Question 20

Does not require an energy source l

Answer 20

Passive transport (Diffusion, Osmosis, Filtration)

Question 21

Requires an energy source

Answer 21

Active transport (phagocytosis, pinocytosis)

Question 22

Molecules moving from a higher concentration to lower concentration

Answer 22

Diffusion

Question 23

Molecules moving from higher concentration to lower concentration THRU/BY water or fluid

Answer 23

osmosis

Question 24

Selects which particles or water moves across a semipermeables membrane by a mechanical force, such as blood pressure.

Answer 24

Filtration

Question 25

The ingestion of foreign or other particles by certain cells. (cell eating)

Answer 25

Phagocytosis

Question 26

The process of engulfing large molecules in solution(water) and taking them into the cell (cell drinking)

Answer 26

Pinocytosis

Question 27

Cels that specialize in response

Answer 27

Nervous

Question 28

Cells that specialize in oxygen transport

Answer 28

Red blood cells

Question 29

The washing away of tissues

Answer 29

Atrophy

Question 30

An increase in the size of muscle cell

Answer 30

Hypertrophy

Question 31

An excessive proliferation of normal cells

Answer 31

Hyperplasia

Question 32

The ability to change into another type of cell

Answer 32

Metaplasia

Question 33

Any abnormal development of tissues or organs.

Answer 33

Dysplasia

Question 34

Uncontrolled growth pattern in a cell may result in a neoplasm:

Answer 34

Neoplasia

Question 35

Also know as a tumor

Answer 35

Neoplasm

Question 36

What means non cancerous?

Answer 36

Benign tumors

Question 37

What means cancerous?

Answer 37

Malignant tumors

Question 38

The transfer of malignant cells from an original site to a distant one through the circulatory system or lymph vessels. AKA cancer is spreading throughout the body.

Answer 38

Metastasis

Question 39

An older person has what percentage of fewer cells than a young adult?

Answer 39

30%

Question 40

Forms the internal framework of a cell

Answer 40

Cytoskeleton