Showing posts with label cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cells. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Bio 120 Questions

Good Afternoon Budding Biologists ! Here are more questions for you from today's lecture!
If each person in class tried to answer just one or two of these, they would all be answered for everyone!

1. How are the mitochondria and chloroplasts similar?

2. Why do we think the mitochondria was once an independent organism?

3. Describe the plasma membrane. Include how a lipid membrane functions in a watery environment.

4. What role do the proteins in the plasma membrane play?

5. If a cell has 8 chromosomes and does mitosis, how many cells will be made, and how many chromosomes will each cell have?

6. If a cell has 8 chromosomes and does meiosis to make sperm cells, how many cells will be made, and how many chromosomes will each cell have?

7. Mitosis creates cells which are ________, while meiosis makes cells which are _____.

8. What are homologous chromosomes?

9. What are sister chromatids?

10. What is crossing over, and during which process, (mitosis or meiosis) does it occur?

Monday, May 21, 2007

Bio 120 Questions

Here's some questions for review based on today's lecture

How is a hypothesis different from a theory?

What are five characteristics of living things?

How are prokaryotic cells different from eukaryotics cells?

What can cyanobacteria do that the bacteria living in your mouth do not do?

How are archebacteria different from the bacteria living on your skin?

Describe briefly what organelles would be involved in making a protein and exporting it from the cell.

Give an example of two cell organelles working together to accomplish a task.

What organelle is found on the ER?

What is the function of lysosomes?

Where is the nucleolus?

What are the functions of the Golgi bodies?