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Cells summary questions
Following your lessons, revision and research, you should be able to
answer, name or explain the following…
1. Why cell membranes need to be partially permeable.
2. The difference between cell biology and cytology
3. What kind of cells make up the lining of your cheek
4. What plasmodesmata are
5. What organelles are
6. What cells with organelles indicate/suggest
7. What was discovered in 1898 using a silver stain
8. Describe in detail a feature of animal cells not found in plant cells.
9. The functions of plant cell vacuoles
10. The liquid inside a chloroplast
11. The liquid inside a mitochondrion
12. One thousand millionth of a metre
13. The smallest wavelength of elections used in electron microscopes
14. The number of cells in the body
15. The number of red blood cells in the body
16. In a picture a ribosome appears 10mm across. What is the
magnification?
17. What objects are coated with prior to viewing through an SEM
18. Technical term for details of a cell only revealed using an electron
microscope.
19. Two structures made out of microtubules.
20. How you’d tell a lysosome from a mitochondrion
21. Five things you’d find in a chloroplast other than the answer to Q.
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22. What pili are for.