INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSITY

CONCEPTS OF BIOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT ONE
MARKS: 20

1. What structures does a plant cell have that an animal cell does not have? What
structures does an animal cell have that a plant cell does not have? (2)
2. A doctor injects a patient with what he thinks is isotonic saline solution. The patient
dies, and autopsy reveals that many red blood cells have been destroyed. Do you think
the solution the doctor injected was really isotonic? (1)
3. Why does osmosis occur? (1)
4. The tails of the phospholipids of the plasma membrane are composed of _____ and are
_______? (1)
5. Explain why chlorophyll appears green to us in terms of what happens to different
wavelengths of light that strike a chlorophyll molecule. (2)
6. Water moves via osmosis _________. (1)
7. Which colors of light are most effective for photosynthesis? Explain why. (2)
8. Why is it advantageous for the cell membrane to be fluid in nature? (1)
9. What happens to carbon dioxide molecules in the Calvin cycle reactions? (1)
10. Active transport must function continuously because __________. (1)
11. How does the amount of energy in light change as the wavelength increases? (1)
12. What plant pigments are involved in photosynthesis? (1)
13. The principal force driving movement in diffusion is __________. (1)
14. Describe the structures that are characteristic of a prokaryote cell. (2)
15. What two products of the light reactions are used up in the Calvin cycle? (1)
16. Which plasma membrane component can be either found on its surface or embedded
in the membrane structure? (1)
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