Download Cells Practice Test Questions ANSWER KEY

Cells Practice Test Answer Key
1. Which type of microscope can be used to view living cells?
Compound Light Microscope
2. What are the three parts of the Cell Theory?
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All living things are composed of CELL(S) (can be unicellular or multicellular).
Cells are the basic units of STRUCTURE and FUNCTION in an organism.
Cells can ONLY COME FROM OTHER CELLS (via cell reproduction).
3. Which type of microscope gives the viewer a 3-D image?
Scanning Electron Miscroscope
4. When a cell engulfs another cell and digests it, what is this process called?
Phagocytosis
5.
Are these cells prokaryotic or eukaryotic? Plant or animal? How do you
know?
Eukaryotic/ Plant
6. Which scientist coined the term, “cells,” because he thought that dead cork cells looked like the
cells where monks lived?
Robert Hooke
7. Which scientist was the first observe living cells?
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
8. What kind of cell might have an increased number of mitochondria?
Any cell that uses a lot of energy, i.e. brain or muscle cells
9. Which cell structure acts like a monorail along which vesicles can move from one place to another
in the cell?
cytoskeleton
10. Which cell structure carries out cell respiration?
mitochondrion
11. Which cell structure is selectively permeable?
Cell membrane
12. Which cell structure creates water as a waste product?
mitochondrion
13. Which cell structure creates oxygen as a waste product?
chloroplast
14. Which cell structure is responsible for creating the cleavage furrow during cell division?
cytoskeleton
15. Which cell structure is responsible for synthesizing lipids?
SER
16. Which cell structure is responsible for converting the energy stored in glucose into ATP?
Mitochondrion
17. Which cell structure is responsible for detoxifying poisons?
SER
18. Where is RNA synthesized in the cell?
Nucleolus
19. Which cell structure is responsible for protein modification (adding carbs)?
Golgi Apparatus
20. Which cell structure exerts turgor pressure when the plant cell is well hydrated?
Central Vacuole
21. Which cell structure is a rigid structure made of cellulose that helps maintain plant cell shape?
Cell Wall
22. Which cell structure releases CO2 a waste product?
Mitochondrion
23. What type of cell might have an increased amount of SER?
Liver cells
24. Where does the process of transcription take place?
Nucleus
25. What type of cell might have an increases amount of RER?
Any cell that makes a lot of protein that gets sent out of the cell, i.e. Plasma B cell
26. What is the most likely next stop of a protein that has just been synthesized on the RER?
Golgi
27. Which cell structure moves mucus across the surface of the cell in the human trachea?
Cilia
28. How does mRNA get out of the nucleus?
Through the nuclear pores
29.
What kind of microscope made this image? What is this structure?
TEM; mitochondrion
30.
What kind of microscope made this image? What is this structure?
TEM; chloroplast
31. What is the structural and functional unit of life (the smallest unit of matter that can live)?
cell
32. What is most directly responsible for creating pseudopodia?
cytoskeleton
33. How much energy (in ATP) is required to make 10 glucose molecules?
380 ATP
34. How much energy (in ATP) is released when 10 glucose molecules are broken down?
380 ATP
35. Do plant cells do cellular respiration? Photosynthesis?
Yes; yes
36. How much energy (in ATP) is released when 15 glucose molecules undergo cellular respiration?
570 ATP
37. What particle initially absorbs the sunlight energy in photosynthesis and becomes “excited?”
Electron in the chlorophyll molecules
38. During the light reactions of photosynthesis, the energy absorbed from the sun is temporarily
stored in TWO molecules. Which ones?
ATP and NADPH