Chapter 6 beginning organelle types

Today in class you started reading chapter 6 in your textbook and reviewed similar questions from the video and with your partner should have come up with definitions and things that are similar around Lawrenceville.





For example what around L'ville serves the same type of function as the nucleus? Is it different in animal vs plant cells? What about prokaryotes vs eukaryotes

We also talked about cell theory, which is? How was it discovered? Is it "proven" that all living things are made up of cells?


We also talked about why compartmentalization is important: cells need to have separate membrane bound structures (organelles) to do different functions at the same time (in which type of organism? Prok or Euk?).

What about specialization? allows different shapes/types of cells or organelles to have different functions that only they do

Size and shape - having different size and shape of cells allows for specialization and have their form 'match' their function.

 See if you can identify examples of cells with each structure below: You can use the images below
                         High vs Low surface area
                         Block vs Web
                         Smooth vs Appendage
                         Connected vs Free
                         Motile vs Sessile
                                                         
                               
                                                                      Sperm Cell

                                                                                                                                  Cardiac Muscle

             Neuron

Skin Cells

Blood Cells

New Term... NEW Question!

As we begin Spring term, we move into our "last question" of 2FS which is....

Is Biology Destiny?

We will start to try to answer this question by looking at cells and then DNA, proteins and traits.

Let's begin by watching the following video for your next class day. (Don't worry if you do not know all the terms. We will be going over much of them during the term (ex. transcription/translation). For the organelle question. you can use the crash course video if you would like.


 Answer the following questions.

1. Why are cells small and how does it relate to your last term?

2. How did scientists discover cells? What technology allowed them to see cells for the first time?

3. What are the 2 types of cells and give an example for each?

4. What are the similarities and differences of these two cell types?

5. What are organelles?

6. What are the 13 different organelles? Give a BRIEF description of each one.


Here is a 2nd video about cells if you want to review (it's a crash course video)