Cell Structures Quiz Review

If all of these cells pictured are cells from a rat, why do they look so different from each other?

• Cells change shape as they get older

• Different cells specialize in different functions

• Each kind of cell is from a different organ systems

• Different-shaped cells came from different ancestors

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Several tissues make up an 
______________________.

• organ system

• organ

• organism

• organelle

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What is the main difference between cell walls and cell membrane?

• Cell walls are found in animals and cell membranes are found in plants

• cell membrane are strong and can support themselves while the cell wall controls what goes in and out of the cell

• Cells walls are found in plants but not in animals.

True or False?  Cell membranes are in every cell and control what enters and exits a cell.  

• True

• False

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Frances's body is unable to control the flow of salt into and out of her cells. Her symptoms include coughing and wheezing when she tries to exercise. Which organelle is affected by Frances's disease?

• endoplasmic reticulum

• cytoplasm

• cell wall

• cell membrane

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What is the function of the chloroplast?

• capture energy from sunlight and change it into energy for the cells to use in making food

• Receive proteins and other materials from the ER and distribute them to other parts of the cell

• store water and food in the sac-like structure until needed by the cell

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Which of the following organelles is found in an animal cell, but not in a plant cell?

• vacuoles

• lysosomes

• chloroplast

• golgi apparatus

Name the organelle that is a thin, flexible barrier that surrounds a cell and can control which substances can enter or exit the cell.

• cell wall

• cell membrane

• nucleus

• mitochondrion

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True or False? Ribosomes are found in the Endoplasmic Reticlum or ER and not floating in the cytoplasm.

• true

• false

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Thin strands of genetic material can be found inside this organelle

• mitochondria

• chloroplasts

• nucleus

• golgi apparatus

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