Common Assessment #3: Test on Cells, Diffusion, Osmosis & Active Transport

Answer in the spaces provided.

1. (a) (i) Complete Table 1 to show the differences between plant and animal cells.

TABLE 1: COMPONENTS OF PLANT AND ANIMAL CELLS

Cell component Plant cell Animal cell

Cell membranes Present Present

Cell walls Present Absent

Nuclei Present Present

Mitochondria Present Present

Chloroplasts Present Absent

(5 marks)

(ii) State ONE function of EACH of the following organelles: (2 marks)

Mitochondrion: membrane-bound cell organelles (mitochondrion, singular) that

generate most of the chemical energy needed to power the cell's biochemical reactions.

Chloroplast: are plant cell organelles that convert light energy into relatively stable

chemical energy via the photosynthetic process.

 (i) Name the process that causes the change in the appearance of both cells. (1 mark)
Ans- The process that cause the change in the appearance of both cells are cellular
differentiation.

(ii) Explain why the process named in (b) (i) is important to plant cells. (2 marks)
Ans- Its important to plant cells because allows plants to break down glucose
Into ATP.
(iii) The plant cell becomes turgid after one hour. Suggest why cell turgidity is useful to the
plant.
Ans- It helps in maintaining the plant rigid and upright. It also results in replete of a cell.
It saves the plants from wilting.

(1 mark)

(iv) Why does the animal cell burst but the plant cell does not? (4 marks)
Ans- Animal cells burst because in a hypotonic solution they will fill up with water and then
burst and plant cell does not burst because have a cell wall around the outside than stops them
from bursting, so a plant cell will swell up in a hypotonic solution.
Total 15 marks