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These scientists concluded that all plant and animals consist of cells? |
Matthias Schleiden Theodore Schwann |
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It is advantageous for cells to be small because: |
it allows them to maintain an appropriate internal environment necessary for their biochemical system to function |
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The scientist who gave cells their name base on his observations of cork cells was _________ |
Robert Hooke |
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The scientist who was first to observe organisms, blood, sperm, and protists was ___________ |
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
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The surface area of plasma membrantes can be increase for absorption of material by fingerlike extensions known as: |
Microvilli |
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What is the resolving power of an electron microscope? |
Just less than 1nm |
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Explain the difference between a transmission and a scanning electron microscope. |
The SEM provides infrmation about the shape and external features of the speciman that cannot be obtaine with the TEM |
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The two features of a microscope which determine how clearly a small object can be viewed |
Magnification Resolving power |
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The ration of the size of the image to the size of the specimen is: |
Magnification |
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The minimum distance between two points at which they can be distinguished as separate adn distinct, as opposed to a single blurred point describes: |
Resolving power or resolution |
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The magnification ability of a light microspe is about_____________. |
1500-2000 |
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This type of microscopy directs light reatys from teh side an only allows scattered ligth to enter the lenses? |
Dark-field microscopy |
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How many wavelengths do fluorescent stains absorb? |
1 |
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All organisms can be classified into two basic groups, based on their cells, they are: |
Prokaryotic cells Eukaryotic cells |
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An organism whose cells lack membranous bound organelles is clasified as: |
Prokaryotic cells |
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Does a eukaryotic cell have plasma membrane? |
Yes |
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List there characteristics of cell membranes: |
*Membranes divide the eukaryotic cell into compartments, allowing it to conduct specialized activities within small area of the cytoplasm, concentrate reactants, and organize metobolic reactions *energy storage an conversion *serve as work surfaces for certain chemical reactions |
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Teh waery, jelly-like fluid material outside thenucleus of a cell is call |
cytoplasm (protoplasm) |
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The nucleus is separated from the surrounding organelles within the cell by: |
Nuclear envelope |
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The endoplasmic reticulum produces what? |
*Lipid synthesis *Calcium ion storage *Detoxifying enzymes *Polypeptides *Proteins |
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What organelle possesses enzymes that digest some proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and nucleic acids and destroys bacteria and otehr foreign material that enters a cell? |
Lysosomes |
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Cellular respration occurs within which organelle: |
Mitochondria |
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What organelles are associated with photosynthesis? |
Chloroplasts |
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Microtubles and microfilaments are all associate with the _____ |
Cytoskeleton |
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Cellulose is the primary component of which part of a cell: |
Cell walls |
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Leucoplasts are pastids which are unpigmented (true or fals) |
true; leucoplasts are plastids which are unpigmented |
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Many plant cells have a large central___________ |
Vacuole |
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If a toxin, such as a bacterial toxin, destroys ribosomes, what cellular activity will be affected first? (what do ribosomes do?) |
*the peptides bonds would be affected first *They contain the enzyme activities necessary to form peptide bonds, which join amino acids to produce proteins. |
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Proteins made on ribosomes may be further modified within what organelle: |
Endoplasmic reticulum |
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The smooth endoplasmic reticulum produces what products: |
Lipid synthesis Calcium ion storage detoxifying enzymes |
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Which one is larger, chloroplast or mitochondria? |
Chloroplasts tend to be somewhat larger than mitochondria |
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The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. True or false |
true; mitochondria is knowns as the powerhouse of the cell |
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Which organelle plays an important rolein destroying worn out material of the cell? |
Lysosomes |
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The mitochondrial ______Greatly increase the surface area of teh inner mitochondiral membrane. |
Cristae |
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In photosynthesis, energy is produced in the: |
chloroplasts |
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A cellular structure found in plant but NOT animal cells is the: |
vacuoles |
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A singel cell in a smokers lunds has become cancerous. It doubles its DNA and divides much faster than a normal lung cell. The organelle that would be defected is: |
mitochondria (apoptosis) |