Cell Structure Worksheet BSCI170, Fall 2024
We will be exploring a number of different processes during the semester, and we will learn that
each process occurs in a particular place within a cell (hey, that's a Big Idea: Structure-Function
Relationships!). You will be expected to recognize the appropriate structure where you will find a
process in a diagram of a bacteria, animal, or plant cell.
Part 1. The Cell Comparison Table
Using information from lecture, your textbook, and the Crash Course videos "Eukaryopolis" and
"Plant Cells," complete the cell comparison table below.
• For each cell type put "yes" if you would expect it to generally have the structure listed.
(If not not sure, put "maybe")
Structure Prokaryotes? Animals? Plants?
A Cell membrane
B Cytoplasm
C DNA
D Ribosome
E Nuclear envelope
F Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
G Rough endoplasmic reticulum
H Golgi apparatus
I Vesicle
J Mitochondria
K Chloroplast
L Central vacuole
M Cell Wall
a. List the structures we expect to find in ALL living cells.
b. List structures that are part of the endomembrane system.
c. List structures that are defined as membrane bound organelles.
d. There are a number of features membrane bound organelles possess that are not found
in the endomembrane system components - name at least three.
e. List three structures found in plants, but not animals.
f. Are there any cell structures not listed here that you would like to learn more about?
We will be exploring a number of different processes during the semester, and we will learn that
each process occurs in a particular place within a cell (hey, that's a Big Idea: Structure-Function
Relationships!). You will be expected to recognize the appropriate structure where you will find a
process in a diagram of a bacteria, animal, or plant cell.
Part 1. The Cell Comparison Table
Using information from lecture, your textbook, and the Crash Course videos "Eukaryopolis" and
"Plant Cells," complete the cell comparison table below.
• For each cell type put "yes" if you would expect it to generally have the structure listed.
(If not not sure, put "maybe")
Structure Prokaryotes? Animals? Plants?
A Cell membrane
B Cytoplasm
C DNA
D Ribosome
E Nuclear envelope
F Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
G Rough endoplasmic reticulum
H Golgi apparatus
I Vesicle
J Mitochondria
K Chloroplast
L Central vacuole
M Cell Wall
a. List the structures we expect to find in ALL living cells.
b. List structures that are part of the endomembrane system.
c. List structures that are defined as membrane bound organelles.
d. There are a number of features membrane bound organelles possess that are not found
in the endomembrane system components - name at least three.
e. List three structures found in plants, but not animals.
f. Are there any cell structures not listed here that you would like to learn more about?
