AQA GCSE Biology - Cell Structure and Microscopy Hinge Questions

Match the Hazard, the Risk, and the Prevention method.

• Skin/eye irritation

• Prevention

• Iodine solution is an irritant

• Hazard

• Wash hands

  Wipe up spills

  Wear goggles

• Risk

Match the Hazard, the Risk, and the Prevention method.

• Sharp knife

• Hazard

• Slice away from body

• Prevention

• May cut someone

• Risk

Calculate the actual size of cell Z in the image. Give your answer in µm, and do not include units.

Mathematical Equivalence

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What is wrong with this biological drawing?

a

b

c

d

no magnification or stain given

no labels

Shaded the nucleus

incomplete cell walls

What are the similarities and differences between the prokaryotic cell and the eukaryotic cells?

Groups:

(a) Similarities

,

(b) Differences

• All have DNA

• Eukaryotes have mitochondria

• All have a cytoplasm

• Ribosomes smaller in bacteria

• Prokaryotes have DNA free in the cytoplasm

• All have a cell membrane

• Prokaryotes are much smaller

• Ribosomes present

• Eukaryotes have a nucleus

Label the cell.

a

b

c

d

e

Vacuole

nucleus

Cell wall

mitochondrion

cytoplasm

Animal cell

cell membrane

Plant cell

Chloroplast

Label the cell.

a

b

c

d

cell membrane

animal cell

nucleus

cytoplasm

Label the cell.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

mitochondrion

cell membrane

cytoplasm

chloroplast

ribosome

animal cell

plant cell

cellulose cell wall

peptidoglycan cell wall

nucleus

Label the cell.

a

b

c

d

e

cellulose cell wall

chloroplast

nucleus

plant cell

cytoplasm

mitochondrion

ribosome

animal cell

cell membrane

Which part of the cell contains DNA?