Cells Study Guide

Question 1

What is not true about cells?

Answer 1

Animal and plants cells do not have the exact same organelles

Question 2

What is a eukaryotic cell?

Answer 2

Eukaryotic cells contain a nucleus

Question 3

What is a organelle?

Answer 3

Organelles are tiny cellular structures that perform specific functions with a cell

Question 4

What is the function of the cell membrane?

Answer 4

The cell membrane controls the movement of materials coming in and out of the cell

Question 5

What is important to remember about multicellular organisms?

Answer 5

different types of cells performed different functions

Question 6

How are plant cells different from animal cells?

Answer 6

Plant cells contain a chloroplast while animal cells do not

Question 7

What is the thick water like fluid inside of the cell membrane?

Answer 7

Cytoplasm

Question 8

How are animals cells different from plant cells?

Answer 8

Animal cells contain lysosome and centrioles

Question 9

What is the function of the nucleus?

Answer 9

Stores, DNA and coordinates the cells activities

Question 10

What is the function of the nucleolus?

Answer 10

It rewrites ribosomal RNA

Question 11

What is the function of a vacuole?

Answer 11

Stores bubbles found in cells, stores food, and nutrients

Question 12

What is the function of the Golgi apparatus?

Answer 12

gather simple molecules, and combine them to make molecules that are more complex

Question 13

What are two organelles that make up the Golgi apparatus

Answer 13

The Golgi body and the Golgi apparatus

Question 14

What is the function of the mitochondria?

Answer 14

convert energy from food into energy, the cell can use to carry out its functions

Question 15

What is the function of the ribosomes?

Answer 15

Protein, builders, or protein synthesizers

Question 16

What is the function of the endoplasmic reticulum?

Answer 16

Manufacturing and packaging system that works with the Golgi apparatus

Question 17

What is the difference in the two different endoplasmic reticulum?

Answer 17

One is smooth the other is rough and has ribosomes on

Question 18

What is the function of a central?

Answer 18

Found in animal cells involved with cell division and the formation of Cilia and flagella

Question 19

What is the function of the chloroplast?

Answer 19

Organelle that conducts photosynthesis

Question 20

What is the function of the amyloplast?

Answer 20

Only found in plant cells where starch is made and stored

Question 21

What is the function of the lysosome?

Answer 21

Membrane bound, organelle that contains digestive enzymes

Question 22

What is the function of the microtubules?

Answer 22

Combine to form the cytoskeleton of the cell

Question 23

What is a cell?

Answer 23

The basic unit of structure and function in living things

Question 24

What is a unicellular?

Answer 24

Made of a single cell

Question 25

What is a multicellular?

Answer 25

Made of many cells

Question 26

What is a stimulus?

Answer 26

Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in someway

Question 27

What is the response?

Answer 27

An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus

Question 28

What is spontaneous generation?

Answer 28

The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources

Question 29

What is homeostasis?

Answer 29

The condition in which an organism, internal environment is stable in spite of changes in the external environment

Question 30

What is cell theory?

Answer 30

A widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things

Question 31

What is a selective permeable?

Answer 31

Some substances that can cross the membrane while others cannot

Question 32

What is diffusion?

Answer 32

The process by which molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration

Question 33

What is osmosis

Answer 33

The diffusion of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane

Question 34

What is endocytosis?

Answer 34

The cell membrane takes particles into the cell by changing shape and ending the particles

Question 35

What is exocytosis?

Answer 35

Allows large particles to leave a cell

Question 36

What is the location of the nucleolus?

Answer 36

The nucleolus is in the center of the nucleus

Question 37

How does a plant cell keep its shape?

Answer 37

cell wall

Question 38

What causes an animal cell to not have a fixed shape?

Answer 38

Animal cells do not have a cell wall

Question 39

What organelle does the endoplasmic reticulum work very closely with

Answer 39

The Golgi apparatus

Question 40

What is a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 40

Prokaryotic cells a cell with no nucleus

Question 41

What is a type of single celled organism?

Answer 41

Prokaryote

Question 42

Which cells have a cell membrane?

Answer 42

Plants and animal cells

Question 43

When we think of the stimulus and the response, what is the example we use in class?

Answer 43

Stimulus bell ringing response, we pack up to leave

Question 44

What organisms have cells?

Answer 44

All living organisms have cells