TEAS 2025 Exam Prep Questions and Verified
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Where is the Golgi complex located? answer - Near the nucleus.
What is the Golgi complex made of? answer - Layered membrane
What are vacuoles? answer - Sacs used for storage, digestion and waste removal
How many vacuoles does a plant cell have? answer - 1 large vacuole
Can animal cells have more than one vacuole? answer - Yes
What is a vesicle? answer - It is a small organelle within a cell.
What does the membrane of a vesicle do? answer - Moves materials within a cell
What is the cytoskeleton made up of? answer - Microtubules that help shape and support the
cell.
What is a microtubule? answer - Part of the cytoskeleton to support the cell.
What are microtubules made up of? answer - Protein
, What is cytosol? answer - Material inside of the cell.
What is cytosol made up of? answer - Mostly water, but can have other floating molecules.
What is the cell membrane? answer - Defines the cell by acting as a barrier
What does the cell membrane do? answer - Helps keep the cytoplasm inside and foreign
substances outside.
What are the two types of endoplasmic reticulum? answer - Smooth and Rough
What does rough endoplasmic reticulum have? answer - Ribosomes on the outside
What is the endoplasmic reticulum? answer - A tubular network that acts as a transport
system.
Fused to the nuclear membrane and extends into cytoplasm.
What does the mitochondria do? answer - Develops ATP, assists cell growth/death
Do mitochondria contain their own DNA? answer - Yes! it is separate from the nucleus.
List the 4 functions of the mitochondria answer - 1. Cell energy
2. Cell signaling
3. Cellular differentiation
4. Cell cycle/growth regulation
In what kind of cells are mitochondria numerous? answer - Eukaryotic Cells
Answers
Where is the Golgi complex located? answer - Near the nucleus.
What is the Golgi complex made of? answer - Layered membrane
What are vacuoles? answer - Sacs used for storage, digestion and waste removal
How many vacuoles does a plant cell have? answer - 1 large vacuole
Can animal cells have more than one vacuole? answer - Yes
What is a vesicle? answer - It is a small organelle within a cell.
What does the membrane of a vesicle do? answer - Moves materials within a cell
What is the cytoskeleton made up of? answer - Microtubules that help shape and support the
cell.
What is a microtubule? answer - Part of the cytoskeleton to support the cell.
What are microtubules made up of? answer - Protein
, What is cytosol? answer - Material inside of the cell.
What is cytosol made up of? answer - Mostly water, but can have other floating molecules.
What is the cell membrane? answer - Defines the cell by acting as a barrier
What does the cell membrane do? answer - Helps keep the cytoplasm inside and foreign
substances outside.
What are the two types of endoplasmic reticulum? answer - Smooth and Rough
What does rough endoplasmic reticulum have? answer - Ribosomes on the outside
What is the endoplasmic reticulum? answer - A tubular network that acts as a transport
system.
Fused to the nuclear membrane and extends into cytoplasm.
What does the mitochondria do? answer - Develops ATP, assists cell growth/death
Do mitochondria contain their own DNA? answer - Yes! it is separate from the nucleus.
List the 4 functions of the mitochondria answer - 1. Cell energy
2. Cell signaling
3. Cellular differentiation
4. Cell cycle/growth regulation
In what kind of cells are mitochondria numerous? answer - Eukaryotic Cells
