Cell specialisation
Sperm Cell;
What is a sperm cell?
What are the properties of a sperm cell? 3
What is the role of the head? Tail? Mitochondria?
What is a chromosome?
What does haploid mean?
What does diploid mean?
Muscle cells
What the are the 3 types of muscle?
Where is cardiac muscle found?
Where is skeletal muscle found?
Where is smooth muscle found?
What is contraction?
Are cardiac muscle cells branched? Why?
What does myogenic mean? Autorhythmic?
Does the heart get tired?
What do skeletal muscles do?
Red blood Cells
What is the role of red blood cells?
Where is the oxygen being transported to?
What does oxygen bind to in the red blood cells?
What is haemoglobin?
How many oxygen molecules can haemoglobin transport?
What is the shape of the red blood cell? Biconcave
What does this increase?
Do red blood cells have a nucleus? Why?
Nerve Cells
What is the function of a nerve cell?
Are nerve cells connected/ branched?
Are nerve cells thin or thick? Long or short? Why?
What is an axon?
What is a dendron?
What is a myelin sheath?
What are Schwann cells?
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
What is saltatory conduction?
What is the purpose of having a myelin sheath?
What does myelinated mean?
Sperm Cell;
What is a sperm cell?
What are the properties of a sperm cell? 3
What is the role of the head? Tail? Mitochondria?
What is a chromosome?
What does haploid mean?
What does diploid mean?
Muscle cells
What the are the 3 types of muscle?
Where is cardiac muscle found?
Where is skeletal muscle found?
Where is smooth muscle found?
What is contraction?
Are cardiac muscle cells branched? Why?
What does myogenic mean? Autorhythmic?
Does the heart get tired?
What do skeletal muscles do?
Red blood Cells
What is the role of red blood cells?
Where is the oxygen being transported to?
What does oxygen bind to in the red blood cells?
What is haemoglobin?
How many oxygen molecules can haemoglobin transport?
What is the shape of the red blood cell? Biconcave
What does this increase?
Do red blood cells have a nucleus? Why?
Nerve Cells
What is the function of a nerve cell?
Are nerve cells connected/ branched?
Are nerve cells thin or thick? Long or short? Why?
What is an axon?
What is a dendron?
What is a myelin sheath?
What are Schwann cells?
What are Nodes of Ranvier?
What is saltatory conduction?
What is the purpose of having a myelin sheath?
What does myelinated mean?