Cells Study Guide

Question 1

What organelle of the cell regulates all of the cell’s activities?

Answer 1

Nucleus

Question 2

Cells vary in what?

Answer 2

Size, function, and shape

Question 3

A membrane that allows only certain molecules to pass through it is called what?

Answer 3

Semipermeable membrane

Question 4

What is the cell theory?

Answer 4

All cells come from other cells.
Cells are the smallest unit of life.
All organisms are made of at least one cell.

Question 5

What part of a plant cell is used to capture light energy which it will use to make it’s food?

Answer 5

Chloroplast

Question 6

Bacteria cells are different from animal cells because bacteria cells do not have what?

Answer 6

Membrane bound organelles

Question 7

The part of the plant cell that makes the plant cell more rigid than an animal cell is called what?

Answer 7

Cell wall

Question 8

The endoplasmic reticulum in a cell does what?

Answer 8

Transport substances

Question 9

The liquid, jelly-like portion of the cell is called what?

Answer 9

Cytoplasm

Question 10

What is the function of the ribosome?

Answer 10

To make proteins

Question 11

What is the smallest unit that can carry on all of the processes of life?

Answer 11

A cell

Question 12

Animal cells are prokaryotic or eukaryotic?

Answer 12

Eukaryotic

Remember: YOU are an animal. YOU have EUkaryotic cells.

Question 13

Which structure directly controls the transport of materials in and out of a cell?

Answer 13

Cell membrane

Question 14

Which structures are found in plant cells, but not in animal cells?

Answer 14

Chloroplast
Cell wall
Vacuoles

Question 15

Which organelle is the site of protein synthesis?

Answer 15

Ribosome

Question 16

What does the term hydrophillic mean?

Answer 16

Water loving

Question 17

The cell membrane consists of what and what?

Answer 17

Proteins and lipids

Question 18

What is exocytosis?

Answer 18

The cell “spitting” out large objects

Question 19

Describe a eukaryotic cell.

Answer 19

They have membrane bound organelles

Question 20

Who invented the microscope?

Answer 20

Robert Hooke

Question 21

Organisms that have more than one cell are called what?

Answer 21

Multicellular

Question 22

What is the name of the organelle that forms spindle fibers during mitosis and is found only in animal cells?

Answer 22

Centriole

Question 23

Proteins synthesized by the ribosomes attache to the rough ER are for inside or outside the cell?

Answer 23

Outside

Question 24

What kind of cells do not have a cell wall?

Answer 24

Animal cells

Question 25

In what solution does water move into the cell?

Answer 25

Hypotonic

Question 26

What happens to water when a cell is placed into a strong sugar solution?

Answer 26

It leaves the cell

Question 27

What happens to the relationship between the surface area and the volume as a cell grows?

Answer 27

The volume grows faster than the surface area.

Question 28

What is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?

Answer 28

Prokaryotic don’t have membrane bound organelles (Bacteria)

Eukaryotic have membrane bound organelles. (Regular cells)

Question 29

What is gravity?

Answer 29

The attraction between two objects.

Question 30

Do you remember everything from unit 2?

Answer 30

Yes? No?

Question 31

Do you know the parts of the cell and what they do on the cell diagrams?

Answer 31

Yes? No?

Question 32

Do you know the order of organiztion from organelle to ecosystem?

Answer 32

Yes? No?

Question 33

Do you know the fields of science?

Answer 33

Yes? No?

Question 34

What is the difference between multicellular and unicellular?

Answer 34

Multicellular is more than one cell.

Unicellular is one cell.

Question 35

What is a group of organs that work together called?

Answer 35

Organ system

Question 36

Can you do metric conversions?

Answer 36

Yes? No?

Question 37

Do you remember everything from unit 1?

Answer 37

Yes? No?

Question 38

Do you remember everything from unit 2?

Answer 38

Yes? No?