QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS

- List 3 differences between plant and animal cells.
- What is the function of the cytoskeleton?
- Explain the Endosymbiotic Theory, give one example, and name the scientist who discovered it.
- Besides the nucleus, list another organelle in an animal cell and 2 organelles from a plant cell that contain DNA.
- Are there cells in the human body that lack nuclei, if so which ones?
- Explain the Sodium Potassium pump.
- Which processes listed below use energy?
        Passive diffusion
        Facilitated diffusion
        Active transport
- We saw plasmolysis occur when salt solution (10% NaCl) was added to the Elodea plant cells.  Describe what happened to the plant cell and explain why.
- Why does active transport require energy from the cell?
- What organelles do plants have that animals lack?
- What organelles do animals have the plants lack?
- Be able to give the functions for all cell organelles identified in lab.
- Since osmosis is a type of diffusion, water must by moving from an area of __________ concentration to an area of __________ concentration.
- Pure water is hypertonic or isotonic or hypotonic to 0.1M saline solution?
- Explain what happened to the potato when you placed it in the distilled water and in 10% NaCl.
- Some white blood cells (phagocytes) use a process called phagocytosis.  What is this?
- T/F
    1.    Lysosomes can be called "suicide sacs"
    2.    Red blood cells have a life span of about 500 days
- What type of blood cells make up the majority of human blood?
- Structure bound in membrane packages within a eukaryotic cell are called ________________
- Name an organelle found in animal cells that is not the nucleus.
- What kind of cell is an animal cell?
- Red blood cells are also called ____________, while white blood cells are also called __________.
- Which type of blood cell is small and lacks a nucleus?
- What is the function of red blood cells?
- What is the function of white blood cells? 
- What prevents a plant cell from undergoing lysis when placed in a highly hypotonic solution?
- What class contains the largest white blood cells?
- What is the function of the mitochondria?
- _____________ and _____________ are found in plant cells, but now in animal cells.
- The organelles in eukaryotic cells are surrounded by _________________.
- The video mentioned that a _______________ is sometimes caleed a "suicide sac" because it is involved in killing non-functional or harmful parts.