Structural Organisation of a Cell
Structural Organisation of a Cell: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Plasma Membrane, Diffusion of Gases Across Plasma Membrane, Adenosine Triphosphate & Endocytosis etc.
Important Questions on Structural Organisation of a Cell
During a laboratory experiment, a student immerses epidermal leaf peel in a hypertonic solution. After some time, the student examined the cells under a microscope and observed that:
Define osmosis. Mention two factors affecting net direction and rate of osmosis.
Which cell organelles is concerned with oxidation of food?
Based on the following diagrams, which organism(s) are eukaryotic and why?
Write any four functions of the cell membrane.
What is etioplast?
Is Lactobacillus a prokaryotic cell?
Colourless plastids are known as _____ (leucoplasts/chloroplasts).
What is meiosis?
Assertion: Lysosomes are often called as 'suicidal bags' of a cell.
Reason: Lysosomes contain hydrolytic enzymes capable of digesting cellular waste.
Match column I with column II and select the correct option from the codes given below.
| Column I | Column II |
| A. Smooth endoplasmic reticulum | (i) Amoeba |
| B. Lysosome | (ii) Nucleus |
| C. Nucleoid | (iii) Bacteria |
| D. Food vacuoles | (iv) Detoxification |
| E. Chromatin material and nucleolus | (v) Suicidal bag |
Read the following passage and answer the question that follow:
Anita ma'am planned a trip for the school children to a research lab. Upon entering the lab, Dr. Ramakrishna showed the students a specimen which is given below and the students found it very interesting and wanted to know more about what they saw. Dr. Ramakrishna explained to them the concept of cell organelles and also a brief about few semi autonomous cell organelles.
Which of the following organism lack the organelle showed in specimen?
Read the following passage and answer the question that follow:
Anita ma'am planned a trip for the school children to a research lab. Upon entering the lab, Dr. Ramakrishna showed the students a specimen which is given below and the students found it very interesting and wanted to know more about what they saw. Dr. Ramakrishna explained to them the concept of cell organelles and also a brief about few semi autonomous cell organelles.
Which of the following cell organelles is semi autonomous?
Read the following passage and answer the question that follow:
Anita ma'am planned a trip for the school children to a research lab. Upon entering the lab, Dr. Ramakrishna showed the students a specimen which is given below and the students found it very interesting and wanted to know more about what they saw. Dr. Ramakrishna explained to them the concept of cell organelles and also a brief about few semi autonomous cell organelles.
The infolding of the inner membrane of this organelle are called
Read the following passage and answer the question that follow:
Anita ma'am planned a trip for the school children to a research lab. Upon entering the lab, Dr. Ramakrishna showed the students a specimen which is given below and the students found it very interesting and wanted to know more about what they saw. Dr. Ramakrishna explained to them the concept of cell organelles and also a brief about few semi autonomous cell organelles.
Which among the following organelle was seen by students under the microscope?
What do you understand by the term ATP?
Name the organelle that is called the power house of the cell.
Define nuclear membrane.
The genetic material in prokaryotes is termed nucleoid and not nucleus. Why?
Deplasmolysis causes shrinkage of a plant cell.
