Chapter 3: Cells The Living Units

Question 1

Cells contain everything needed to ______.

Answer 1

Survive

Question 2

Loss of cellular homeostasis (balance) causes what?

Answer 2

Disease

Question 3

Cells are made of complex organic _______.

Answer 3

Molecules

Question 4

Cells come in many different _____ and ______.

Answer 4

Shapes and sizes

Question 5

What are 3 basic parts of a cell?

Answer 5

Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Plasma membrane

Question 6

What is the plasma membrane?

Answer 6

The outer boundary of the cell

Question 7

What is the cytoplasm?

Answer 7

The intracellular fluid packed with organelles.

Question 8

What is the nucleus?

Answer 8

And organelle that controls cellular activities. Typically lies near the cell center.

Question 9

The plasma membrane proteins determine the?

Answer 9

Function a cell can perform

Question 10

What are the units of life?

Answer 10

Cells

Question 11

What is an example of a single cell organism?

Answer 11

Bacteria

Question 12

What is an example of a multicellular organism?

Answer 12

Humans

Question 13

What does the chromatic carry in the cell?

Answer 13

Genetic material

Question 14

Integral proteins are able to….

Answer 14

Pass all the way through the cell

Question 15

Peripheral proteins are located….

Answer 15

On either face of the membrane

Question 16

What is the important function of protein joining two cells together called?

Answer 16

Membrane junction

Question 17

What is tight junction?

Answer 17

Holds cells together with no space in between

Question 18

What is Gap Junction?

Answer 18

Cells snap together, yet things are still able to move between cells without exiting

Question 19

What is Desmosome?

Answer 19

(Anchoring junction) cells are together but there is some space between