Cell Structure and Function

Cells make proteins on small structures called RIBOSOMES.

• True

• False

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What is the difference between a cell wall and a cell membrane?

• The cell wall is rigid and is outside the flexible cell membrane.

• The cell membrane is flexible and outside the rigid cell wall.

• The cell wall is flexible and is outside the rigid cell membrane.

• The cell membrane is rigid and inside the flexible cell wall.

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In eukaryotes, the _______ is where cellular respiration takes place.

• Golgi apparatus

• Mitochondria

• Nucleus

• Vacuole

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_________ are organelles that use light energy to make food.

• Mitochondria

• Vaculoles

• Chloroplasts

• Nuclei

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The Golgi apparatus is what packages _______ onto vesicles in a eukaryotic cell.

• Sugars

• Oxygen

• Proteins

• Water

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A lysosome's main function is to...

• Use light energy to make food

• Protect the cell

• Break down materials

• Fight off infections

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Molecules move through the cell membrane from areas of _____ concentration to areas of _____ concentration

• high, low

• low, high

• high, high

• low, low

Ziyah is making a model of a living plant cell. The following objects are available to her for her model:

a cloth bag

a wire cage

a solar panel

a battery with wires

a zippered sandwich bag

Ziyah wants to represent the function of different plant cell parts by using objects that have functions similar to the cell’s parts.

Which object would represent the cell membrane?

• cloth bag

• solar panel

• battery with wires

• zippered sandwich bag

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In plant cells, the vacuole has two main functions. What are they?

• To provide structure and a place for storage

• To provide a place for the cell to create proteins and digest sugars

• To provide structure and to store all the chloroplasts

• To provide a place for storage and to collect bacteria.

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What organelles transport proteins in a cell?

• Golgi apparatus

• vesicles

• popsicles

• vacuoles

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