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Cell Structure and Function Quiz

This document provides information about cell structure and function through a series of multiple choice questions. It addresses topics like tight junctions forming seals between epithelial cells, the location of ATP production in mitochondria, proteins often functioning as enzymes, lysosomes carrying digestive enzymes, and phospholipids having a hydrophilic and hydrophobic portion to form cell membranes. Gap junctions are identified as structures that can link adjacent cells and allow ion flow between their interiors.

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Cell Structure and Function Quiz

This document provides information about cell structure and function through a series of multiple choice questions. It addresses topics like tight junctions forming seals between epithelial cells, the location of ATP production in mitochondria, proteins often functioning as enzymes, lysosomes carrying digestive enzymes, and phospholipids having a hydrophilic and hydrophobic portion to form cell membranes. Gap junctions are identified as structures that can link adjacent cells and allow ion flow between their interiors.

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Cell Structure and Function

1. Which of the following can form an almost impermeable seal between two adjacent epithelial cells?
a. Desmosomes
b. Gap junctions
c. Integral reductive proteins
d. Tight junctions
e. Collagen

Use the lettered items in the following diagram for questions 2-5.

2. Which structure is a fatty acid?

3. Which structure is a protein that must be mostly hydrophilic?

4. Which structure is an integral protein?

5. Which structure is a protein that must be mostly hydrophobic?

6. ATP production primarily occurs in which of the following organelles?


a. Nucleus
b. Endoplasmic reticulum
c. Microvilli
d. Mitochondria
e. Cilia

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Cell Structure and Function

7. Which of the following types of chemical molecules often functions as enzymes?


a. Proteins
b. Carbohydrates
c. Fats
d. Nucleic acids
e. Adenosine triphosphate

8. Which of the following is an organelle that carries high concentration of digestive enzymes?
a. Endoplasmic reticulum
b. Mitochondrion
c. Lysosome
d. Nucleus

9. The normal volume of intracellular fluid in the body is ___________________ the normal volume of
extracellular fluid in the body.
a. Greater than
b. Less than
c. The same as

10. Phospholipids contain a hydrophilic portion and a hydrophobic portion.


a. True
b. False

11. Which of the following structures can link adjacent cells in such a way that ions can flow directly from the
interior of one cell to the interior of the other cell?
a. Desmosomes
b. Tight junctions
c. Gap junctions
d. Micelles
e. Cholesterol

12. The sugar coat on the cell surface is known as the:


a. Lipopolysaccharide capsule
b. Cholesterol sheath
c. Glyocolytic membrane
d. Desmosomes
e. None of the above

13. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?


a. Tight junctions are found linking intestinal cells
b. Desmosomes are found linking cells in the cervix
c. Gap junctions are found linking cells in the heart.
d. Integral proteins can function as cell adhesion molecules.
e. Phospholipids cannot diffuse laterally within the cell membrane.

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