Cell Biology Review

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What is the thick structure made of cellulose that gives the cell strength and rigidity?

Cell Wall

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What organelle can digest cell parts and waste material?

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What organelle is an interconnected highway where newly formed proteins are transported throughout the cell?

Endoplasmic

Reticulum

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What is the fluid environment that all organelles are surrounded by?

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Structures within the cell that perform specific functions are called _________.

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In what organelle is the cell’s ATP produced?

QuestionWhat is the function of a ribosome?

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The double membrane that surrounds the nucleus is called _______________.

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A cell with a high energy requirement will have many of these?

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What is the function of the cell membrane?

To surround the entire cell.

To allow substances to enter and leave the cell

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What is an example of a prokaryotic cell?

QuestionWhat organelle provides structural support

for the cell and is made of a network of microfilaments and microtubules?

QuestionWhat is the function of the vacuole?

Storage

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In the mitochondria, a chemical reaction takes place that converts organic

compounds into ATP.

What specific organic compound is used?

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What organelles are associated with photosynthesis?

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The smallest units of life in all living things are __________.

CELLS

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Name something different between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

Eukaryotes have membrane-bound organelles while prokaryotes do not.

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What is the organelle that manufactures substances needed by the cell and lacks attached ribosomes?

Smooth ER

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What is the function of the nucleus?

Store hereditary information and direct cell activities.

QuestionName something similar between prokaryotes and

eukaryotes?

Cell/Plasma MembraneCytoplasmDNA region

DNASame Functions

Ribosomes

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Cell walls are found in what types of cells?

Plant cells and bacteria cells.

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This person examined a thin slice of cork under the microscope?

Robert Hooke

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The cell wall found in plant cells is made of ___________.

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The packaging, processing, and distribution center of the cell is the ____________.

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What type of cells have membrane-bound organelles?

Eukaryotic

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What organelles in plant cell contain the green pigment chlorophyll?

QuestionWhat are the 3 parts of the cell theory?

1) All living things are composed of one or more cells2) Cells are the basic unit of structure and function of an

organism3) Cells come only from the reproduction of existing cells

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What are the large membrane-bound organelles that store water, waste products, and nutrients?

Vacuole

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What instrument was discovered in the 1600’s which enabled scientists to see and study cells?

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What organelle protects the cell from its own production of hydrogen peroxide?

Peroxisome