Cell Structure and Function video questions
Name: ____________________
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4L_QO4WKtM
Date: _______________________
We will watch a short video clip about cell structure and function. As you watch the video,
answer the following questions.
1. Look at the following picture and 1) make a list of what a factory needs to produce
goods and 2) write the function of each thing in the list of what the factory needs.
(Cell analogy worksheet, n.d.)
i.e.) Central office: commands and controls a factory.
2. What is meant by “Structure fits function”?
3. What are membranes?
4. What do membranes do for organelles?
5. Cell membranes are often called ______________________ , and they form
boundaries between _______________(inside) and outside.
6. What is the chief function of cell membranes?
7.
What is the function of the nucleus?
8. What is DNA and where is it stored?
9. What is the function of the nucleolus?
10. What is the chief function of ribosome?
11. Do ribosomes have a membrane?
12. What is the function of endoplasmic reticular?
13. What is the function of the Golgi apparatus?
14. What are vesicles?
15. What are peroxisomes? What are lysosomes?
16. What is the function of mitochondria?
17. Mitochondria have a double membrane. The internal membrane is folded up, and it is
where ____________ ________________________ takes place.
18. Mitochondria have their own ________________ and ______________________.
19. What is the function of the cytoskeleton?
20. Flagella and cilia are used for ___________________.
21. Essay question
Let’s compare and contrast a cell with a factory. Look at the list of what a factory needs that
you wrote down for question 1.
Pick three factory parts and three organelles that match them in a cell. Explain how each
organelle is similar to a factory part.
Pick two to three organelles in a cell that do not perfectly match factory parts. (In other words,
identify two “organelles that do not fit the cell-factory analogy” (wanaksciene, 2012).
Explain why each organelle does not fit the analogy.
References
Wanakscience. (2012). Cell Structure and Function.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4L_QO4WKtM
[video].
Cell analogy worksheet. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://jh399.k12.sd.us/biology/assign/ch7cellanalogywksht.pdf
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