SAS Check for Understanding
SAS 1 - CELL
1. Which of the following is not a component of
protoplasm?
A. Mitochondria
B. Glycolipid
C. All of the Above
D. Lipase enzyme
2. Mary accidentally threw her plate when she got
spilled with hot water on her foot. What property
being stated?
A. Contractility
B. Irritability
C. Conductivity
D. Respiration
3-5. What are the 3 structural components of
cytoplasm?
3. Organelles
4. Inclusions
5. Cytoskeleton
6. All of the following are cell inclusions, except:
A. Golgi Apparatus
B. Lysosome
C. Lipofuscin
D. Nucleolus
7. What organelle is responsible for intra and
extracellular digestion of harmful and useless
substances the cell?
A. Macrophage
B. Lysosome
C. Natural Killer cell
D. All of the Above
8. What organelles is responsible for the
breakdown of alcohol and peroxides?
A. Nucleus
B. Nucleus and Cytoplasm
C. Cytoplasm
D. All of the Above
10. What process involves the division of nuclear
envelope?
A. Karyokinesis
B. Either
C. Cytokinesis
D. Neither
SAS 2 – EPITHELIUM
1. Functions of the basement membrane include
which of the following?
a. Contractility
b. Molecular Filtering
c. Active lon Transport
d. Excitability
e. Modification of secreted proteins
2. Using immunohistochemistry a population of
cells is shown to be positive for the protein
connexin. From this we can infer that the cells are
connected by what type of junction?
a. Tight (occluding) junctions
b. Zonula adherens
c. Gap junctions
d. Hemidesmosomes
e. Desmosomes (macula adherens)
3. An individual genetically unable to synthesize
normal occluding is likely to have epithelia with
defective regulation in which of the following?
a Material crossing the epithelium between the cells
(paracellular movement)
b. Communication between the cells
c. Attachment to the basement membrane
d. Strong attachment to neighboring cells
e. Movement of membrane proteins in the apical
domains of cells
A. Lysosome
B. Xanthochrome
C. Peroxisome
D. Only A
4 An intermediate filament protein found in
cytoplasm of most epithelial cells is which of the
following?
9. Where can DNA be located?
a. Actin
b. Vimentin
c. Laminin
d. Myosin
e. Keratin