Cells: Chapter 3 Online Activities Name:
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Go to www.cellsalive.com. As you travel through this website, you will learn about imaging techniques, animal cells, plant cells, and will take a little quiz to see how much you know. Have fun, and good luck!☺
At the top of the page, click on the Explore tab, click on Cell Models, select Plant and Animal Cells, click on Start the Animation, and then click on Plant Cell.
1. Look at the plant cell and predict the structure represented by each color/shape for the following. Then drag the curser over each structure and record the “actual”correct answer. (No cheating!)
Prediction Actual
· Bumpy yellow folds w/black dots:
· Green ovals:
· Small yellow tubes:
· Orange and white ovals:
· Yellow strands:
· Grey structure inside lg purple oval:
· Small lavender balls:
· Pink ring around cell:
Click on each organelle to discover the function.
2. Within the nucleus is the ______responsible for providing the cell with its unique characteristics.
3. The nucleolus produces ______, which is critical in protein synthesis.
4. Smooth ER is important in the synthesis of lipids and membrane proteins. T / F
5. Rough ER is important in the synthesis of other lipids. T / F
6. What inside the chloroplasts provide its green color?______
7. What process takes place inside the stroma of the chloroplasts?
8. What is the purpose of the cell wall? (circle one)
A) provide the shape of the cells B) maintain the shape of the cells
C) serve as a protective barrier D) all of the above
Click on Animal Cell at the bottom.
9. Again predict the structure represented by each color/shape for the following. Then drag the curser over each and record the “actual” correct answer. (No cheating!)
Prediction Actual
· Small orange spheres:
· Small purple spheres:
· Yellow tubes:
· Small white spheres:
· Pink background:
· Pink border:
10. Click on the one of the two grey-blue irregular shaped organelles. A ______is a membrane-bound sac that plays roles in ______digestion and the release of cellular waste products, and in plants is the collector of water.
11. How many membranes does a Golgi Apparatus have?
12. The Golgi Apparatus is a stack of membrane-bound vesicles that are important in packaging micro molecules for transport elsewhere in the cell. T / F
Go back with the blue arrow, select Explore tab, click on Image Gallery.
13. How many different types of cells are featured here? ______
14. What technique was used to get the images of soil bacteria, red blood cells, and E. coli? ______
15. Name two featured cells of the immune system that are important in fighting infection. ______and ______
For Fun: Go to Study tab at the top of the page, click on Puzzles, and try one jigsaw puzzle or a word puzzle. You are now finished with Cells Alive!
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Go to www.classzone.com, Animated Biology, Chapter 3. Click on “Chapter 3: Cell Structures”. Click on the animal cell.
1. The lysosome is an organelle that contains ______to “digest” old or broken cell parts or food.
2. The ______is the site where ribosomes are assembled.
3. Attached to the nucleus is a network of interconnected membranes, the ______, that help to serve as the cell’s “transportation highway”.
4. The vacuoles in an animal cell store:
5. The ______processes, sorts and delivers proteins.
6. Proteins must be delivered from the ______reticulum to the ______apparatus where they are processed, sorted and then delivered. If these two structures are not connected, which structure carries the proteins from one to the other? ______
Go back and click on the Plant Cell.
7. In the plant cell, how does the central vacuole differ from the other vacuole?
8. In both plant and animal cells, the ______supply energy to the cell. They are special because they contain their own ______(genetic material) and ______(protein makers).
9. Which special plant cell part helps a plant “be an autotroph”? ______
10. A plant cell contains a few different structures an animal cell does not have. List 3 structures and their functions:
11. List one animal cell structure that is not found in plant cells: ______
Go to Assessments, Section Quizzes, Unit 2 Cells, and take the 3.1 and 3.2 quizzes.
12. Quiz Score (number correct) on your first try!
3.1 Quiz:_____/5 3.2 Quiz: ______/5
Go to Animated Biology, Ch 3: Get Through A Cell Membrane. Click Next.
13. Oxygen and water move freely through the cell membrane by this type of passive transport: ______.
14. Cells use energy to release wastes through vesicles in a process called: ______
15. Cells use energy to take in proteins through vesicles by a process called:
______
16. Facilitated diffusion is a type of ______transport.
17. Sugars are actively transported through the cell membrane by energy and proteins called ______.
Click on Go and test your knowledge of cell membrane transport. Use the 4 icons to help transport materials across the membrane. The legend is just for reference only.
18. How many times did you do the animation before you completed it correctly? ___
19. What icon (s) did you need to use when you transported sugar across the membrane?
20. What icon (s) did you need to use to transport ions across the membrane?
21. What icon (s) did you need to use to transport protein across the cell membrane?
Go to Interactive Review, Ch 3 Vocab Games, and Word Fetch.
22. My difficulty level was ______. I performed with perfection in ______sec.
Go to Ch 3.5 section quiz and answer the following:
23. What term describes the movement of molecules from an area of low concentration to an area of high concentration? ______
24. How does diffusion differ from endocytosis and exocytosis?
25. Through what type of proteins does active transport occur?
26. A type of endocytosis in which the cell takes in large particles, ______.
27. Is energy required to move oxygen molecules across the cell membrane, from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration? Yes / No (circle one).
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