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Cell Biology Study Guide
1. How do you determine Power of Magnification of a compound light microscope?
2. Which parts of a compound light microscope do you use to focus on a specimen?
3. What were the contributions of each of the following cell biologists?
a. Hooke
b. Leeuwenhoek
c. Schleiden
d. Schwann
e. Virchow
4. What are the 3 parts of the Cell Theory?
5. Which 4 structures do all cells have in common?
6. Prokaryotic cells and Eukaryotic cells are different from each other.
NOTE: You have already taken a quiz on this!
a. How is their size different?
b. How is their complexity different?
c. Which cell type has a nucleus and which doesn’t?
d. Which cell type has membrane-bound organelles and which doesn’t?
e. What are the examples of each cell type?
7. What is the function of each of the following?
NOTE: You have already taken a quiz on this!
a. Nucleus
b. Nucleolus
c. Mitochondrion
d. Smooth ER
e. Rough ER
f. Golgi Apparatus
g. Lysosome
h. Ribosome
i. Cilia and Flagella
j. Microtubules/Microfilaments (Cytoskeleton)
k. Cytoplasm
l. Cell Membrane
m. Cell Wall
n. Plastid (especially chloroplast)
o. Vacuole
8. If a Golgi Apparatus is the “gift wrapper” of the cell, what is the “gift bag”?
9. Be able to recognize the following cell structures.
NOTE: You have already taken a quiz on this!
a. Nucleus
b. Mitochondrion
c. Ribosome
d. Plastid (especially chloroplast)
e. Vacuole
f. Cell membrane
g. Cell wall
10. What are the similarities and differences between plant cells and animal cells?
11. What does selectively permeable mean?
12. Which structure is selectively permeable?
13. What is the proper arrangement of the phospholipids in the cell membrane?
14. Draw a phospholipid. Label the parts that are: Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic, Polar,
Nonpolar, Phosphate Group, Fatty Acids, Heads and Tails.
15. What is the difference between peripheral and integral proteins?
16. Beside phospholipids and proteins, what else is part of the cell membrane?
17. Be able to recognize the parts of the cell membrane diagram.
18. What is a stem cell?
19. What is the difference between an embryonic stem cell and a somatic stem cell?
20. What causes a stem cell to specialize or differentiate?
21. What is differentiation?
22. Are chromosomes considered to be organelles?
23. What are chromosomes made of?
24. What is a gene?
25. How are nerve cells specialized to their function?
26. How are blood cells specialized to their function?
27. Be able to recognize nerve cells and red blood cells.
28. What is the function of a contractile vacuole?
29. Which type of adaptation is used for movement of each of the following
organisms?
a. Paramecium
b. Euglena
c. Amoeba
30. What is the difference between positive and negative chemotaxis?
31. What is the difference between positive and negative phototaxis?
32. Be able to recognize a paramecium, a euglena, and an amoeba.
33. Why do cells have to be small?
34. As a cell grows, what increases at a faster rate, cell surface area or cell volume?
35. Review all of your cell notes, hand-outs and worksheets.
*****Since you’ve had 2 quizzes on this information already, expect most questions
on this test to come from the material that was not on either quiz.*****