Module 1: CELL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Lecture 6: Questions

Q7. The Golgi apparatus is involved in

A) transporting proteins that are to be released from the cell
B) packaging proteins into vesicles
C) altering or modifying proteins
D) producing lysosomes
E) all of the above


Q8. Ribosomes are found

A) only in the nucleus
B) in the cytoplasm
C) attached to the smooth endoplasmic reticulum
D) only in eukaryotic cells
E) both b and c

Q9. Is protein synthesis effected by the cell growth temperature?
Q10. How does protein enter the Endoplasmic reticulum?
Q11. Why is a Ribosome Important? How do ribosomes differ in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
Q12. What Diseases Affect Ribosomes?
Q13. Ribosomes ate present in mitochondria. True/False.
Q14. How do the golgi bodies and lysosomes work together?
Q15. What is the function of smooth and rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Q16. How does the cell make golgi apparatus and endoplasmic reticulum?
Q17. What is the structure and function of a lysosome?
Q18. How do lysosomes and vesicles assist each other by working together?
Q19. Do plant cells have lysosomes?
Q20. What is endocytosis?
Q21. What happens if a cell does not produce the enzymes that lysosomes need in order to function?
Q22. What is the role of the endoplasmic reticulum as a site of protein folding?

Further readings

Fabene PF, Bentivoglio M (October 1998). "1898–1998: Camillo Golgi and "the Golgi": one hundred years of terminological clones". Brain Res. Bull. 47 (3): 195–8.

Lodish H, Berk A, Zipursky SL, et al. Molecular Cell Biology. 4th edition. New York: W. H. Freeman; 2000.