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Prokaryotic Eukaryotic Student Practice (7.1)
1.
What do the root words pro + karyon mean?
a. After answering question one - what type of cells are pictured above? Justify your answer.
2.
In the picture above what are the free-floating spheres that are found in each bacterium cell?
3.
What is the structure that encloses each bacteria cell called?
4.
All the internal structures are suspended and floating in what substance?
5.
Create a Venn diagram to illustrate three similarities and differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
6.
Refer to the models of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to fill in the chart below with check marks in the appropriate columns.
Bacterial Cells
Animal Cells
Plant Cells
All Cells
Plasma Membrane
Ribosome
Nucleus
Cytoplasm
Mitochondria
Nucleolus
Nucleus
DNA
Cell Wall
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic
7.
Which type of cell, prokaryotic or eukaryotic, do you consider to be more complex? Support you answer with specific examples from the
models.
8.
Complete the phrase below using three to five sentences
a. All cells are not the same because . . . . .
Extension:
9.
In a group of two or more (list your partners names) discover the three primary bacterial shapes that occur in nature.
10. Prokaryotic vs. Eukaryotic Analogy: An efficiency apartment is a one-room apartment. This one room is where you sleep, eat, shower
and entertain your guests. It all happens in one room. It is a simple way of living in a small space. A mansion is a large, complex living
space with many separate rooms. There are rooms for cooking, eating, sleeping, bathing, reading, watching TV, entertaining guests,
exercising and storage. The rooms in a mansion are constructed for the specific things you would like to be able to do. You can live in a
simple efficiency or a complex mansion.
a.
With as much detail as possible, give another example of an analogy for describing prokaryotic cells vs.eukaryotic cells.