Internet Lab: Cell Structure and Function
Orders of Organization and Magnitude:
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Powers of Ten slide show
Cell Structure:
Interactive Tutorial – Cell Structures:
-Make sure to complete their “Construct a cell” tutorial.
- Pictures and text about Cellular Structures
- Tutorial Classzone – from your textbook:
Follow the directions in the tutorial.
- Interactive tutorial: Cell Alive!
(Identify organelles and check for correctness)
Explorable Animal Cell
- Virtual Cell (Might take time to download)
Vesicular Transport: Ribosome-ER-Golgi
- Animation – Vesicular Transport of Proteins to the Cell Membrane:
- Vesicles fusion/fission
AMAZING Simulation – White blood cell activation, including vesicular travel on cytoskeleton (detailed
narrative):
Membrane Structure and Transport
Membrane Structure:
- Animation
- Fluidity:
Diffusion:
- Animation:
- Simulation:
Osmosis:
- Animation:
- Osmosis in plant cells
- Illustration: Effects on plant and animal cells
Protein Channels (Facilitated Diffusion)
- Animation:
Active Transport / Protein Pumps: Animation: - Na+/K+ ATPase (Na/K Pump)
Passive and Active Transport
- Tutorial:
- Animation: Nerve resting and action potential
Endocytosis and Exocytosis:
-Animation: Exocytosis(just membrane fusion)
Also see “Vesicular Transport”, next section
- Animation – Phagocytosis: (a form of endocytosis):
Practice Quizzes:
Go to Classzone (Section 3 Quizzes apply):
Internet Lab: Cell Structure and Function
Name_____________
Per __________
Cell Structure:
Compare between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes:
Common Structures: ____________________________________________________________
Differences: ___________________________________________________________________
Compare between animal and plant cells:
Common Organelles: ____________________________________________________________
Differences: Only plant cells have: _________________________________________________
Only animal cells have: __________________________________________________________
Vesicular Transport:
Use the animation and the information about each individual organelle to answer.
1) What is the purpose of the process in the animation?
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2) In brief, what happens in each of the following parts in the process?
Nucleus (as much as you can tell from the animation): ________________________________________
Ribosomes: __________________________________________________________________________
Smooth ER: __________________________________________________________________________
Rough ER: ___________________________________________________________________________
Golgi: ______________________________________________________________________________
Cell membrane: _______________________________________________________________________
Membrane Structure and Transport:
List at least three main ideas that you learned or reviewed from the animations and tutorials.
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2. __________________________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________________________
Identify two tutorials that you found most helpful (Write the titles)? Why?
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