Download Name Due Date Cell Specialization Station 1

Name
Due Date
Cell Specialization
Station 1- Adipose Cells
1. What is structure A in the adipose cell?
2. What are two functions of adipose tissue?
Station 2 - Bacteria
3. There are two main types of cells. What type are bacteria?
4. What is a structure you will never see in a bacteria cell?
5. What are two good things bacteria do for humans?
Station 3 – Amoeba
6. What structure do amoeba have that makes them eukaryotic and not prokaryotic?
7. Would an amoeba have a plant wall?
Station 4 – Euglena
8. Do euglena have a nucleus?
9. What structures/organelles would you expect a euglena to have based on the fact that they are
plant-like protists and not animal-like. List at least 3.
Station 5 – Muscle Cells
10. What organelle must muscle cells have a lot of in order to make actin and myosin?
11. Muscle cells require a lot of energy. What organelle do they need to produce energy?
12. What is the structure labeled “2”?
13. Are muscle cells prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Station 6 – Nerve Cells
14. Explain how a nerve cells structure (how it looks) matches it function (what it does)
15. Nervous cells have to send materials to surrounding cells. Which organelle helps with shipping
and transporting cell materials?
Station 7 – Osteocytes
16. Are their cells in calcium?
17. Are all parts of the human body made of cells? Explain your answer
Station 8 – Mystery Cell
18. What type of cell is this?
19. What evidence did you use to determine the cell type?
20. Does this cell have a nucleus?
21. What are the green organelles in the cell?
Station 9 – Red Blood Cells
22. What problem would be caused for people with sickle cell anemia? Explain your answer.
Station 10 – Lung tissue
23. Using the context clues, what does squamous mean?
24. What do the lungs need to exchange with blood vessels that necessitates a single layer of cells?
The digestive system?
Station 11 – Tongue
25. The top portion of your skin is made of stratified squamous epithelium. Why?
Station 12 – Respiratory cells
26. Besides mucus, what else might your respiratory tract need to move?
27. Draw a pseundostratified columnar epithelium cell. Label the cilia, cell membrane and nucleus.
Station 13 – Bacteriophage
28. List 3 things a eukaryotic cell has that a virus doesn’t have.
29. List 1 thing a virus has that both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have.
Station 14 – Living vs. Nonliving
30. Give 4 reasons that figure A is not living and figure B is.