D515 CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION Questions with Correct Solutions

D515 CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION Questions with Correct
Solutions

Question:
1. What are Eukaryotes?

Answer:
-animals -plants -fungi -protists


Question:
2. What are Prokaryotes?

Answer:
-Bacteria -Archaea


Question:
3. Give basics of Eukaryotes

Answer:
-larger -usually multicellular -have organelles -have a nucleus -cell division is mitosis -sexual
cycle is meiosis


Question:
4. Give basics of Prokaryotes

Answer:
-small -unicellular -absent of cell wall -no nucleus -cell wall is peptidoglycan -cell devision by
binary fission -no sexual cycle


Question:
5. Bacterial cell structures

Answer:
-cytoplasm -cytoplasmic membrane -cell wall -external structures


Question:
6. Eukaryotic cell structures

Answer:
-cytoplasm -cytoplasmic membrane -nucleus -nuclear membrane -organelles


Question:
7. levels of organization

, Answer:
cell->tissue->organ->organ system->organism


Question:
8. Nucleus

Answer:
contains chromosomes and nucleolus (location of replication and transcription)


Question:
9. Endoplasmic reticulum

Answer:
Rough ER (covered in ribosomes, role in translation) Smooth ER (involved in lipid and
carbohydrate synthesis)


Question:
10. Golgi apparatus

Answer:
Processes, packages, and ships proteins and lipids via vesicles


Question:
11. Mitochondria

Answer:
site of cellular respiration, ATP generation


Question:
12. Cytoskeleton

Answer:
3 types of fiber (microfilament, microtubule, intermediate filament) functions are the
mechanical support, anchor organelles, and transport of substances


Question:
13. Tissues

Answer:
organized communities of cells that work together to carry out a specific function


Question:
14. Extracellular Matrix