MCB 259: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1998, Quiz 1 - September 20
What are some of the functions of plant vacuoles? circle correct alternatives
storage of carbohydrates or proteins, respiration, metabolic buffer, waste container, growth by water uptake, brake down of waste products, storage of genetic information, photosynthesis
What is the size of a typical plant cell? 30nm ,1µm, 5µm, 30µm, 500µm, 1mm
What is the size of a typical chloroplast? 7nm, 50nm ,.5µm, 5µm, 50µm, 500µm
What is the thickness of a biological membrane?? 8nm, 80nm ,1µm, 5µm, 30µm, 500µm
What is the diameter of a typical mitochondrion? 7nm, 30nm ,1µm, 5µm, 30µm, 500µm,
What are the names of the two prokaryotic Domains or "Urkingdoms"? circle correct alternatives:
Archaea, Bacteria, Eubacteria, Eukaryotes, Cyanobacteria, Plastids, Archaebacteria, Eucarya
Which of these is closest related to the nucleocytoplasm of the eukaryotes?
Which eukaryotic cell organelles (2) have developed from bacteria that were taken up into the host cytoplasm as endosymbionts?
What is the name of the vacuolar membrane?
A) Unitary membrane, B) Plasmalemma, C) Tonoplast D) Bilayer
What is the name botanists use for the membrane separating the protoplast from the cell wall
A) Unitary membrane, B) Plasmalemma, C) Tonoplast D) Bilayer
Where in a typical plant cell do you find DNA? Is this DNA transcribed?
The synthesis of RNA using DNA as a template is called
A) Transcription, B) Translation C) Polymerization
The RNA directed synthesis of Protein is called
A) Transcription, B) Translation C) Polymerization
The Enzymes catalyzing the template directed synthesis od proteins are called
A) Ribosomes, B) Amino Acid Polymerases, C) Proteinases
List some criteria that could be used to define a living entity:
List at least 8 cell organelles;
underline the ones that are also present in Bacteria;
frame the ones that do not occur in animal cells.
What are SRPs. What are the doing?
Secondary endosymbiosis (more than one might be correct!)
A) gave rise to the chloroplasts of red and green algae
B) is a symbiosis with an endosymbiont, which in turn already had an endosymbiont
C) sometimes is revealed by the presence of a nucleomorph sandwiched in the plastid envelope