SC30245 Biology (Unit 1 the Cell) Video Questions: Our Secret Universe the Hidden Life
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SC30245 Biology (Unit 1 – The Cell) Video Questions: Our Secret universe -- The Hidden Life of the Cell (Part 1)
Answer questions in full sentences in your notebook. Staple this handout to the same page.
1) How many cells make up the average human’s body? (1 mark)
2) What type of compound is most important for maintaining the functions of life and of the cell? (1 mark)
3) What is the protein that makes up the cytoskeleton of the cell? What type of protein is used to transport materials along the cytoskeleton of the cell? (2 marks)
4) Review: What are the protein ‘turbines’ on the mitochondria that are spinning to help create ATP? (1 mark)
5) What is the role of the white blood cells that patrol and check the cells in our blood stream and the rest of our body? (2 marks)
6) What type of protein patrols our bodies looking for common ‘invaders’ that enter our body?
7) How do endosomes use transport proteins to break down certain compounds? Would this be active or passive transport? (1 mark)
8) How do these endosomes ‘help’ the adenovirus? (2 marks)
9) What is the role of ribosomes in the self-destruction of a cell by a virus? (2 marks)
10) There is debate about whether a virus is a living or non-living thing. Having looked more closely at the functioning of cells at the microscopic level, what is your opinion and why? (3 marks)
11) Based on what we just watched, how have viruses helped drive the evolution of the human species? (2 BONUS marks)
SC30245 Biology (Unit 1 – The Cell) Video Questions: Our Secret universe -- The Hidden Life of the Cell (Part 1)
Answer questions in full sentences in your notebook. Staple this handout to the same page.
1) How many cells make up the average human’s body? (1 mark)
2) What type of compound is most important for maintaining the functions of life and of the cell? (1 mark)
3) What is the protein that makes up the cytoskeleton of the cell? What type of protein is used to transport materials along the cytoskeleton of the cell? (2 marks)
4) Review: What are the protein ‘turbines’ on the mitochondria that are spinning to help create ATP? (1 mark)
5) What is the role of the white blood cells that patrol and check the cells in our blood stream and the rest of our body? (2 marks)
6) What type of protein patrols our bodies looking for common ‘invaders’ that enter our body? 7) How do endosomes use transport proteins to break down certain compounds? Would this be active or passive transport? (1 mark)
8) How do these endosomes ‘help’ the adenovirus? (2 marks)
9) What is the role of ribosomes in the self-destruction of a cell by a virus? (2 marks)
10) There is debate about whether a virus is a living or non-living thing. Having looked more closely at the functioning of cells at the microscopic level, what is your opinion and why? (3 marks)
11) Based on what we just watched, how have viruses helped drive the evolution of the human species? (2 BONUS marks)