FREE MCAT AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MCAT - THE CELL

PDF Download

FREE MCAT AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MCAT - THE CELL

EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -72 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Bacteriophages

Answer:

Viruses that infect bacteria

Question 2: protein coat of a virus

Answer:

capsid

Question 3: hypertonic solution

Answer:

describes the medium when cytoplasm has lower solute concentration than extracellular medium

Question 4: What cellular process is autoradiography used to study

Answer:

protein synthesis - by labeling amino acids with radioactive isotopes DNA & RNA synthesis specifically

Question 5: What is the site of protein production

Answer:

ribosomes

Question 6: What is the site of many of the reactions of respiration

Answer:

mitochondrial matrix

Question 7: Cholesterol molecules in phospholipid bilayer purpose

Answer:

cell fluidity

Question 8: What provides the framework for organelle movement?

Answer:

microtubules

Question 9: What are the 3 primary types of microscopes

Answer:

Compound light microscope, Phase contrast microscope, Electron microscope

Question 10: What are the 2 types of microbodies

Answer:

peroxisomes and glyoxysomes Question 11: Which modes of transport of materials in and out of cells are passive processes?

Answer:

simple diffusion (osmosis), and facilitated diffusion

Question 12: What moves materials across plasma membrane

Answer:

microfilaments

Question 13: Centrioles are found in ______ cells

Answer:

eukaryotic animal

Question 14: What is the smooth ER involved in

Answer:

lipid synthesis and etoxification of drugs and poisons

Question 15: Facilitated diffusion

Answer:

net movement of dissolved particles down their concentration gradient with the help of transport proteins

Question 16: What are the characteristics of the intermembrane space

Answer:

many convolutions called cristae, high protein content - contains many of the proteins of the electron transport chain

Question 17: Where is rRNA synthesized

Answer:

nucleolus

Question 18: Cytosol contents

Answer:

free proteins, nutrients,solutes, cytoskeleton

Question 19: Active transport

Answer:

net movement of dissolved particles against their concentration gradient with the help of transport proteins

Question 20: Where are the centrioles?

Answer:

Animals have a pair of centrioles that are oriented at right angles to one another in a region called the centrosome

Question 21: Where does respiration occur in the prokaryotic cell

Answer:

cell membrane

Question 22: Connective tissue involved in...

Answer:

involved in body support

Question 23: Microfilaments

Answer:

solid rods of actin involved in cell movement and support

Question 24: What are the 3 types of muscle tissue

Answer:

skeletal, cardiac, smooth

Question 25: What type of cells have centrioles?

Answer:

animal cells

Question 26: Role of centriole

Answer:

spindle organization during cell division - direct separation of chromosomes

Question 27: In what ways can substances move in and out of a cells

Answer:

simple diffusion (osmosis), facilitated diffusion, active transport, endocytosis, exocytosis Question 28: What is the area between outer and inner membrane of mitochondria called

Answer:

intemembrane space