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Name: ______________________ Class Period: ________________ Date: ______________________
Cell Quiz
Directions: Write the correct answer in the line in front of the question.
______1. Life is organized in a hierarchical fashion.
Which of the following sequences illustrates that hierarchy
as it goes upward?
a. molecule, cell, organ, organ system, organism,
population, community, ecosystem
b. ecosystem, molecule, cell, organism, organ
system, organ, community
c. cell, molecule, organ system, organ, population,
organism, ecosystem, community
d. organism, organ system, population, organ,
community, cell ecosystem, molecule
______2. Select the smallest level of organization among
the following:
a. organ
b. organ system
c. organism
d. tissue
______ 3._______ is the main purpose of ribosomes?
a. Transporting proteins
b. Protection of the cell
c. Protein manufacture
d. Energy production
______ 4. A ______ is the storage compartment of a cell.
a. Cytoplasm
b. Vacuole
c. Cell Wall
d. Lysosome
______ 5. ______ is the thick, clear fluid that holds the
organelles in place.
a. Cytoplasm
b. Vacuole
c. Cell Wall
d. Cell Membrane
______6. A ______ is where an animal cell digests food.
a. Cytoplasm
b. Vacuole
c. Cell Wall
d. Lysosome
______7. The ______ is the outer boundary of an animal
cell.
a. Cytoplasm
b. Organelle
c. Cell Wall
d. Cell Membrane
______8. A _______ is the hard, protective, nonliving
outer boundary of a plant cell.
a. Cell membrane
b. Vacuole
c. Cell wall
d. Chlorophyll
______9. The ________________ is the energy
processor in cells.
a. Nucleus
b. Vacuole
c. Cell Wall
d. Mitochondrion
11. Label the following cell:
Name: ______________________ Class Period: ________________ Date: ______________________
______8. What passes through the cell membrane during
osmosis?
a. food
b. water
c. proteins
d. salt
______9. The cell membrane allows some substances to
pass through but not all substances. What is this called?
a. diffusion
b. osmosis
c. semi-permeable
d. endocytosis
______10. When molecules move from an area of high
concentration to an area of low concentration, we call this .
a. endocytosis
b. osmosis
c. semi-permeable
d. diffusion
______17. Which cellular structure is NOT found both
in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
a. plasma membrane
b. mitochondria
c. genetic material (DNA)
d. cell wall
e. ribosomes
Match the following word with the definition.
a. prokaryotic
b. photosynthesis
c. unicellular
d. eukaryotic
e. multicellular
______14. Robert Hooke was . . .
a. the first to see a cell in a slice of cork and name
it.
b. the first to say that plants are multicellular
c. the first to say that the whole plant was made of
cells.
d. the founder of the cell theory
______15. The cell theory states that (circle all that apply).
a. Living cells can come from nonliving cells.
______18. The process in green plants and certain
other organisms by which carbohydrates are
synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using
light as an energy source.
______19. Any cellular organism that has a
membrane bound nucleus, organelles in the
cytoplasm, and has its genetic material in the
nucleus.
b. All living things are made of one or more cells
c. The cell is the basic unit of life in all living
things.
d. All cells are produced by the dividing of
preexisting cells.
______16. One of the main differences between
Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells is the...
a. lack of chlorophyll in eukaryotes
b. larger size of prokaryotes
c. presence of a cell wall in prokaryotes
d. presence of a nucleus in eukaryotes
______20. composed of one cell.