CH 2: CELL AS BASIC UNIT OF LIFE

What is cell ?

• Living organism

• A brick

• Basic unit of life

• component that combine together to form an organ

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Unicellular organisms are organisms that consist of only one cell while multicellular organisms are organisms that consist of more than one cell.

• True

• False

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The diagram shows an _____________________.

• plant cell

• animal cell

• red blood cell

• cheek cell

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Which part of the cell controls substances entering or leaving it?

• A

• B

• C

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Name the structure in a plant cell which has this function:

protects and maintains cell shape.

• Cell wall

• Cytoplasm

• Plasma membrane

• Nucleus

What structure tells you this diagram is of a plant cell and not an animal cell?

• cell wall

• mitochondrion

• nucleus

• plasma membrane

I am only found in a plant cell and can trap light energy. What am I?

• cell wall

• mitochondrion

• cytoplasm

• chloroplast

Directs all cell activities through the DNA located there.

• Lysosomes

• Nucleus

• ribosomes

• Mitochondrion

I am a protein packaging and shipping machine! Who am I?

• vacuole
• ribosome
• mitochondrion
• golgi apparatus

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You might think of me as the trash collector, but recycler is maybe more accurate. What am I?

• mitochondrion

• lysosome

• vacuole

• ribosome