The cards Question What is an organism? Tap to flip Answer A living thing made up of one or more cells. Question What is the basic unit of all forms of life? Tap to flip Answer The cell. Question Which two structures do all cells have in common? Tap to flip Answer A cell membrane and cytoplasm. Question In which part of a cell do the chemical reactions essential to life take place? Tap to flip Answer In the cytoplasm. Question What is a unicellular organism? Tap to flip Answer An organism made of just one cell. Question What is a micro-organism? Tap to flip Answer An organism so small it can only be seen through a microscope. Question What does a light microscope use to make magnified images? Tap to flip Answer Visible light passing through a system of lenses. Question What does magnification mean? Tap to flip Answer Making small objects look bigger so that more detail can be seen. Question How should observations made with a light microscope be recorded? Tap to flip Answer As a labelled scientific line drawing that shows the scale. Question Are cells lifeless building blocks, like bricks? Tap to flip Answer No. Cells are living units. Question What is the cytoplasm? Tap to flip Answer A jelly-like substance holding dissolved nutrients and salts, where many of the cell's chemical reactions happen. Question What does the cell membrane control? Tap to flip Answer The movement of substances into and out of the cell (it is partially permeable). Question What does the nucleus contain? Tap to flip Answer The genetic material, which controls the cell's activities. Question What does DNA carry? Tap to flip Answer The genetic code for making proteins. Question Which sub-cellular structures contain the enzymes for respiration? Tap to flip Answer The mitochondria. Question Is energy created during respiration? Tap to flip Answer No. Energy is transferred by respiration, not created. Question Give two examples of specialised animal cells. Tap to flip Answer Blood cells and nerve cells. Question Which three structures do plant cells have that animal cells do not? Tap to flip Answer A cell wall, chloroplasts and a permanent vacuole. Question What is a plant cell wall made of? Tap to flip Answer Cellulose fibres. Question What job does the cell wall do in a plant? Tap to flip Answer It strengthens the cell and supports the plant. Question Which green pigment do chloroplasts contain? Tap to flip Answer Chlorophyll, which absorbs light for photosynthesis. Question What does the permanent vacuole contain? Tap to flip Answer Cell sap, which helps to keep the cell turgid. Question What do plants make by photosynthesis? Tap to flip Answer Glucose. Question Give two examples of specialised plant cells. Tap to flip Answer Root hair cells and palisade cells. Question Do root hair cells contain chloroplasts? Tap to flip Answer No. Not every plant cell has chloroplasts; root hair cells lack them. Question Where do eukaryotic cells keep their DNA? Tap to flip Answer Inside a membrane-bound nucleus. Question Where is the DNA in a prokaryotic cell? Tap to flip Answer Free in the cytoplasm, because there is no nucleus. Question Are all eukaryotic organisms multicellular? Tap to flip Answer No. Some eukaryotic organisms are unicellular. Question Are prokaryotic organisms unicellular or multicellular? Tap to flip Answer Unicellular. Question Do prokaryotic cells have membrane-bound sub-cellular structures? Tap to flip Answer No, not even a nucleus. Question Which three structures are common to prokaryotic cells? Tap to flip Answer A cell membrane, cytoplasm and a cell wall. Question In what form is a prokaryotic cell's main genetic material stored? Tap to flip Answer As one looped chromosome. Question What is a plasmid? Tap to flip Answer A small ring of extra DNA in the cytoplasm of a prokaryotic cell. Question What is binary fission? Tap to flip Answer The type of cell division bacteria use to reproduce. Question Do all bacteria look like the model bacterial cell? Tap to flip Answer No. Bacteria come in different shapes and sizes. Question What is a micrometre (µm)? Tap to flip Answer One millionth of a metre (1 m ÷ 1 000 000). Question Can most cells be seen with the unaided eye? Tap to flip Answer No. Cells are usually too small to see without a microscope. Question Roughly how many cells make up most animals and plants? Tap to flip Answer Millions or billions. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Biology Unit Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, OCR Tiers foundation and higher England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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