CH# 4 THE CELL

Short questions:

1. Define and enlist salient features of cell theory.

2. Define resolution of eye.
3. What is cell fractionation?
4. What is chemical composition of plasma membrane?
5. Differentiate between unit membrane model and fluid mosaic model.
6. What is endocytosis? Differentiate between phagocytosis and pinocytosis.
7. What is chemical composition of cell wall?
8. Write the functions of cell wall.
9. What are cytoplasm and nucleoplasm?
10. Give the functions of cytoplasm.
11. What is Endoplasmic reticulum?
12. Differentiate between RER and SER.
13. Write function of SER.
14. What are ribosomes? Give its chemical composition.
15. What are polysomes ?
16. What is Golgi apparatus?
17. Give the functions of Golgi apparatus.
18. Differentiate between forming face and maturing face of Golgi apparatus.
19. Differentiate between cristae and cisternae.
20. What are lysosomes? Give its functions.
21. What Autophagy? Give its importance
22. What are storage diseases?Give examples
23. What is Glycogenosis type II disease?
24. What is Tay sach’s disease?
25. What are peroxisomes? Give its function.
26. Write the role of Glyoxysomes?
27. Differentiate between peroxisomes and glyoxysomes.
28. Write down the functions of vacuoles.
29. What are cytoskeleton? Give its functions.
30. Name the proteins present in cytoskeleton.
31. Compare microtubules and microfilaments.
32. What are centriole? Give its functions.
33. What are intermediate filaments?
34. Give the role of mitochoindria.
35. Write composition of mitochiondrial matrix. Name the processes occurring here.
36. What are plastids? Give its types
37. Differentiate between chromoplast and leucoplast.
38. What is Stroma?Give its function in chloroplast.
39. What are grana?
40. What are nuclear pores?Give its function.
41. What are chromosomes?Give its composition.
42. What is nucleolus?Give its structure and function.
43. What is sacculus?
44. Give four differences between prokaryotic cell and eukaryotic cell.
45. Compare chlorophyll from Haem group.