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Cells Practice Test
1. Which type of microscope can be used to view living cells?
2. What are the three parts of the Cell Theory?
3. Which type of microscope gives the viewer a 3-D image?
4. When a cell engulfs another cell and digests it, what is this process called?
5.
Are these cells prokaryotic or eukaryotic? Plant or animal? How do you
know?
6. Which scientist coined the term, “cells,” because he thought that dead cork cells looked like the
cells where monks lived?
7. Which scientist was the first observe living cells?
8. What kind of cell might have an increased number of mitochondria?
9. Which cell structure acts like a monorail along which vesicles can move from one place to another
in the cell?
10. Which cell structure carries out cell respiration?
11. Which cell structure is selectively permeable?
12. Which cell structure creates water as a waste product?
13. Which cell structure creates oxygen as a waste product?
14. Which cell structure is responsible for creating the cleavage furrow during cell division?
15. Which cell structure is responsible for synthesizing lipids?
16. Which cell structure is responsible for converting the energy stored in glucose into ATP?
17. Which cell structure is responsible for detoxifying poisons?
18. Where is RNA synthesized in the cell?
19. Which cell structure is responsible for protein modification (adding carbs)?
20. Which cell structure exerts turgor pressure when the plant cell is well hydrated?
21. Which cell structure is a rigid structure made of cellulose that helps maintain plant cell shape?
22. Which cell structure releases CO2 a waste product?
23. What type of cell might have an increased amount of SER?
24. Where does the process of transcription take place?
25. What type of cell might have an increases amount of RER?
26. What is the most likely next stop of a protein that has just been synthesized on the RER?
27. Which cell structure moves mucus across the surface of the cell in the human trachea?
28. How does mRNA get out of the nucleus?
29.
What kind of microscope made this image? What is this structure?
30.
What kind of microscope made this image? What is this structure?
31. What is the structural and functional unit of life (the smallest unit of matter that can live)?
32. What is most directly responsible for creating pseudopodia?
33. How much energy (in ATP) is required to make 10 glucose molecules?
34. How much energy (in ATP) is released when 10 glucose molecules are broken down?
35. Do plant cells do cellular respiration? Photosynthesis?
36. How much energy (in ATP) is released when 15 glucose molecules undergo cellular respiration?
37. What particle initially absorbs the sunlight energy in photosynthesis and becomes “excited?”
38. During the light reactions of photosynthesis, the energy absorbed from the sun is temporarily
stored in TWO molecules. Which ones?