Download Eukaryotic Cell Structure Answer the following questions on your

Eukaryotic Cell Structure
Answer the following questions on your own paper. (25 points)
Comparing a Cell to a Factory (page 174)
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What is an organelle?
What are two things that plant cells have that animal cells do not?
Nucleus (page 176)
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What is the function of the nucleus?
What important molecule does the nucleus contain?
The granular material visible within the nucleus is called________________.
What does chromatin consist of?
What are chromosomes?
Most nuclei contain a small dense region known as the __________________.
What occurs in the nucleolus?
What is the nuclear envelope?
Ribosomes (page 177)
11) What are ribosomes?
Endoplasmic Reticulum (pages 177-178)
12) What is the difference between rough ER and smooth ER?
Golgi Apparatus (page 178)
13) Using the cell as a factory analogy, describe the role of the Golgi apparatus in the cell.
Lysosomes (page 179)
14) List three functions of a lysosome.
Vacuoles (page 179)
15) What are vacuoles?
16) What is the role of the central vacuole in plants?
17) How does the contractile vacuole in a paramecium help maintain homeostasis?
Mitochondria and Chloroplasts (page 179-180)
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True or false: Both chloroplasts and mitochondria are enclosed by two membranes.
Chloroplasts and mitochondria contain their own genetic information in the form of what?
What are mitochondria?
Are mitochondria found in plants, animals, or both?
Where are chloroplasts found?
Lynn Margulis suggested that mitochondria and chloroplasts are descendents of what kinds of organisms?
Cytoskeleton (page 181)
24) What is the cytoskeleton?
25) Which structure of the cytoskeleton helps to maintain cell shape, help build cilia and flagella, and form centrioles in cell
division? Which helps to support the cell and help cells move?