Unit 1, Week 3: Cells Review

What do I need to know for this unit?

Learning Objective

Describe the characteristics that human beings

share with other living things.
Describe how human diseases result from the
interruption of normal organ system functioning,
including AIDS, heart disease and cancer.

Textbook:
Biology of Humans (Goodenough; 5th Edition):
Chapter 3 The Cell
Chapter 19 Chromosomes and Cell Division
OLI:

Introduction to Biology
Unit 4 The Cell
Unit 6 Cell Division

OpenStax: Biology
Unit 2, Chapter 1 Cell Structures
Unit 2, Chapter 2 Structure and Function of the Cell Membrane
Unit 2, Chapter 7 Cell Reproduction
Unit 3, Chapter 1 Meiosis and Sexual Reproduction

Review Questions:
1. Compare and contrast eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. What cellular structures do
they both have? Which cellular structures do only eukaryotes have?
Hint look at the list below (which is a list of the structures found in eukaryotic
cells) and determine which of these are found in prokaryotic cells too.

2. Identify and give the function for the following cell structures on the pictures on the
last page.
Identify the structures that are found only in animal or plant cells and which are
found in both cell types.
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Plasma membrane
Cytoskeleton
Golgi apparatus
Mitochondrion
Vesicle
DNA
Nucleus
Ribosomes
Rough endoplasmic reticulum
Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Chloroplast
Cytosol
Cell wall

3. What is the function of the plasma membrane?

A. What are 3 functions of proteins in the plasma membrane?
4. Explain what happens in each stage of the cell cycle.
A. In which stage(s) of the cell cycle does the cell spend the most time?
5. Explain what happens in each stage of mitosis.
A. Be able to identify cells in various stages of mitosis.
6. Explain what happens in each stage of meiosis.
A. What are homologous chromosomes?
B. What is crossing over? Why is it important?
7. Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis. (Compare and contrast means list the
differences and similarities.)
A. How many cells do you have at the end of each process? Are these cells diploid
or haploid?
B. How is the process of mitosis similar/different to the process of meiosis?