3A - Cell Structure (Past Paper) (1)

capsule prevents it from

Question 1 (June 2022)
dehydration and also
provides projection

from
 Increasing sodium chloride solution decreasesthe growth rate of BOTH bacteria I
Lipiscium has a more rapid decrease I salt concentration between
0 6 dm caused an initial

increase i Bthermosphasta has a larger growth rate than IpiscumCD Lipiscumcould Notgrow in the
sodium chloride solution above 22 9dm butB thermosphacta is more scattered butthe

data for L piscium is closer tothe line of bestfites

 Question 2 (January 2022)

scanning
3D surface
lengthof
7 mm

1mm 1000 um
7mm 7000 um

X 14,000

14,000

Too small 0.5 mm to be viewed under a light microscope i

The maximum power of a light microscope is 1000 but magnification

that is used to view this bacteria is 14,000 this magnification cannot

 be achieved using a light microscope

Question 3 (Oct/Nov 2021)

smooth endoplasmic
reticulum SER

lipids steroids

DNA chromatin chromosome mRNA histones or nucleosome

nucleolus
darkspotinsidethe nucleus
Question 4 (June 2021)

i
cisterna

y membrane

I secretaryvesicle

trans face
Question 5 (January 2021)

SEM
not 3D
and it is NOT
the surface

light and you

can see the
ultrastructure detail of

the electron organelle

Electron microscope transmission electron microscope

 This organelle is the mitochondria and its function is
aerobic respiration I to produce ATP I for several cell processes cell
metabolism c
ftetd
isprgfeih.se

RER
mitoffs

Cisternae
Label at least 2 tubules
 3A - Cell Structure (Past Paper) (2)

Question 1 (January 2021)

use aruler to find

the image size I

Actualsize A

1 40 mm

9.091 a I
m 4
9.1

die.FIIpefi too
 no

Question 2 (January 2021)

promotes
rRNA whichis a
part of
ribosomes

ribosomes
make

firEast

Plant cells have larger vacuoles

plant cell wall have cell wall made from cellulose

Plant cell would have starch instead of glycogen granule

Question 3 (June/Nov 2020)

42 mm 42000 um
M 1680
420,1

1680
 it

Question 4 (January 2020)

 Ribosomes
in prokaryotic cells are smaller 1 Of
ribosomes in prokaryotic cells are 70s but thosein eukaryotic cellsare

80s I

prevent dehydrationof the cell covers antigens protests thecell from

phagocytes or antibodies or antibiotics

for movement
Question 5 (January 2020)
They look different because of the way it was sliced or

because they tookthephd.it t frntangleci

Different
sizes due to different stages of growth and development l
 Golgi cell membrane
GRER

At the nucleus the insulin gene is transcribed into mRNA and leaves the
nucleus throughthe nuclear
pore
translated on the ribosome into insulin protein on RER

At the RER the protein is packaged into the transportreside I

it is transport to the Golgi cistase and the vesicles fuse to the golgi

and the insulin protein is modified I

Golgi
Question 6 (June 2019)