Bio: 23 Fall Midterm Study Guide
Questions and Answers.
All living things - Answer Are made of cells
Respond to the environment
Maintain stable internal conditions (homeostasis)
Grow and develop
Reproduce
Convert fuel and food (metabolism/Complex chemistry)
How does a virus reproduce? - Answer Attaches to a host cell, enters, and inserts its genetic
material into the host cell. It then directs the host to produce more viruses until there is so
many of them that the host cell ruptures spreading these to attack other healthy cells.
Living things come from - Answer other living things
Host cell - Answer Living cell in which a virus replicate
Structures found in all cells - Answer DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, cell membrane
Cell membrane is composed of - Answer Phospholipid bilayer, proteins, cholesterol and
glycolipids.
Functions of the cell membrane - Answer transport of materials, protection, enzyme activity,
maintaining homeostasis
Lipids function in the body - Answer energy storage
insulation
transport of protein in blood
cell membrane structure
nucleus - Answer Control center of the cell. Contains DNA/genetic material.
Questions and Answers.
All living things - Answer Are made of cells
Respond to the environment
Maintain stable internal conditions (homeostasis)
Grow and develop
Reproduce
Convert fuel and food (metabolism/Complex chemistry)
How does a virus reproduce? - Answer Attaches to a host cell, enters, and inserts its genetic
material into the host cell. It then directs the host to produce more viruses until there is so
many of them that the host cell ruptures spreading these to attack other healthy cells.
Living things come from - Answer other living things
Host cell - Answer Living cell in which a virus replicate
Structures found in all cells - Answer DNA, cytoplasm, ribosomes, cell membrane
Cell membrane is composed of - Answer Phospholipid bilayer, proteins, cholesterol and
glycolipids.
Functions of the cell membrane - Answer transport of materials, protection, enzyme activity,
maintaining homeostasis
Lipids function in the body - Answer energy storage
insulation
transport of protein in blood
cell membrane structure
nucleus - Answer Control center of the cell. Contains DNA/genetic material.
