1)  What is a cell?

2)  Why are cells important?

3)  Why study cells?

4)  Biology is the study of form and function in living things.   

“Form and function” is also known as “structure and meaning”.

a)  What is form?

b)  What is function?

5)  What is the form, or structure, of each of the following organelles?  (Describe how it looks and what it is made of.)

a) Cell membrane:

b) rough and smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum:

c) Ribosome:

d) Golgy Body:

e) vacuole:

f) lysosome:

g) Nucleus:

h) mitochondria:

6)  What is the function of each of the following organelles?

( Please write what each organelle does.)

a) Cell membrane:

b) rough and smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum:

c) Ribosome:

d) Golgy Body:

e) vacuole:

f) lysosome:

g) Nucleus:

h) mitochondria:

7)  How does the nucleus control the cell?

8)  Where are proteins made?

9)  Where are fats made?

10)  Why is the E.R. shaped with very curvy membranes?

11)  Why does the Golgi body pack molecules into vacuole sacks?

12)  Food broken into molecules is called nutrients.  Where do nutrients go when they enter a cell?  Why?

13)  What are two things that DNA does?

14)  List four types of cells in your body.  What does each cell do?

15)  What do you want to know about cells?  Write your five best cell questions.