Cells and Heredity Unit Test Review
1. What is the main instrument to observe cells? (p.4-5)
microscope
2. If you switch the microscope from low power to high power, what
would you see- more cells with less detail or fewer cells with more
detail? Explain. (p 4-5)
Fewer cells with more detail. It is like zooming in on a cell phone.
When you zoom in you get less picture with more detail.
3. What is a cell? (p.5)
Basic unit and structure of all living things.
4. What are the main characteristics of living things? (Look in your
notes)
Movement, growth and development, response to stimuli,
reproduction, use of energy, has cells
5. What is homeostasis? Give an example. (Look in your notes)
human body keeping constant internal body systems. Example: the
human body maintaining a stable or constant body temperature.
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1. The Cell Theory showed that all scientific explanations are final or able to change and improve?
7.
Explain. (p. 4-5)
It took several years for the Cell Theory to be developed. Many scientists added to the
theory and over time it showed that a theory is able to change and improve if new
8.
2. Place
thediscovered.
correct characteristics in the correct part of the Venn Diagram
theories
are
Prokaryote
Eukaryote
No Nucleus
bacteria
All
unicellular
Nucleus
Have DNA
Have a cell
membrane
Have
organelles
No nucleus
Nucleus
Bacteria
All unicellular
Have DNA
Have cell membrane
Have organelles
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8. What is a prokaryote? Give an example. (p. 8-10)
Single celled organisms that do not have a nucleus and no organelles.
Example- Bacteria.
9. What is a eukaryote? Give an example. (p. 8-10)
Mostly multi-celled (many celled) organisms that have a nucleus and
organelles. Example- animals, plants and fungi.
10. Where does photosynthesis take place in the cell? (p. 38)
In the chloroplasts of the cell.
11. What is the cell membrane? What is its function? Where is it in cells?
(p.13)A protective barrier that encloses the cell. It separates the cell’s
contents form its environment. Cell membrane controls the
movement of materials into and out of the cell. It is located
12. What
are ribosomes?
Whatofare
two places that these can be found in a
outermost
structure
thethe
cell.
cell? (p. 15) Ribosomes make proteins. They are located floating
freely in the cytoplasm and on the Endoplasmic
Reticulum (ER)
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13.What is cellular respiration? What does it do for cells? Where
does it take place in the cell? (p. 39)
The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from
food. It gives energy to the cell. It is located in the mitochondria of
the
cell. is the function of the cell wall? What type of cell is it
14.What
A in?
rigid
structure that surrounds the cell membrane and provides
located
(p.12)
extra support to the cell. Plants and algae have a cell wall. It is
located surrounding the outside of the cell.
15.What does mitosis result in or create? Explain. (p. 43-44)
It creates two genetically identical daughter cells.
16.Draw the main steps of Mitosis. Know the order of the steps.
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17. What
does meiosis produce or result in? Explain. (p. 69)
Four genetically different daughter cells with half the number of
chromosomes.
18. The main difference between asexual reproduction (mitosis) and sexual
reproduction (meiosis)? Explain.
Mitosis produces two identical cells with the full amount of
chromosomes, while Meiosis produces four genetically different cells
with half the number of chromosomes..
19. In every case, you inherit genes from mom only, dad only or both
parents? Explain.
Always inherit genes from both parents even twins inherit genes from
both mom and dad.
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20.Cross a black dog BB with a white dog bb. BB x bb
b
21. What is the chance of an offspring being black?
100% all black. They will all have a white
gene. Heterozygous.
b
B
Bb
Bb
22. What is the genotype of the black offspring? Explain.
All will have a genotype of Bb. That is the only combination
that is possible.
B
Bb
Bb
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23. What is heredity? (p. 56)
The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring.
24.What is homozygous? Give examples. (p. 63)
An organism with two dominant or two recessive alleles is
homozygous. Example- PP or pp.
25.What is heterozygous? Give an example. (p. 63)
An organism that has both a dominant and recessive allele is
heterozygous. Example- Pp
26. What is a mutation? Are they always harmful? Explain. (p. 94)
A change in the sequence of a gene or DNA molecule. They can be
helpful, harmful or neutral. They are not always harmful. Some
27.
What
is an allele? How are dominant alleles expressed? How are
are
beneficial.
different forms of a gene. Dominant alleles are
recessive formsThe
expressed?
expressed as a capital letter, recessive alleles are
expressed as a lower cased letter. When a dominant
allele is with a recessive allele the dominant trait always