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Cells and Cell Organelles
The following questions should be answered in complete sentences that make
sense. Your answer should also include definitions of any other biological terms you use
in your answer. Provide enough of a description in your answer so as to explain the
basics of the concept to someone who knows nothing about biology. Provide the sources
for your answers. Do not give your answers on this page but on a separate page (or on
more than one page). This assignment is due at the beginning of your lab during the
week of October 19th. This assignment counts the same as a ten-point lab test, and one
point will be deducted from the grade on this assignment for each day it is late.
1. Define cell organelle.
2. Give the basic structure and function of the following cell structures:
a) a mitochondrion
b) a centrosome
c) nucleolus
d) ribosomes
e) chloroplasts
f) the plasma membrane
g) chromatin
3. What is a main difference between prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells?
4. What is one difference between plant cells and animal cells?