Genetics and Evolution review/practice quiz (no credit)
You should be able to** identify subcellular structures such as the following on a
sketch, or to sketch a cell showing sub-cellular structures
** match each structure with its function, or to describe each
structure's function
The quiz is usually given with instructions to match the a list of
structures to a labeled sketch, and to the listed (letter) functions, but may
require students to draw the cell sketch itself.
A typical list is the following, but any organelle or subcellular
structure is fair game:
| structures |
functions |
| centriole |
A. carbohydrate & lipid biosynthesis |
| Golgi apparatus or body |
B. control material moving in & out of cell |
| smooth endoplasmic reticulum | C. site of protein synthesis |
| basal body | D. organization of microtubules in cilia & flagella |
| lysosome | E. site of DNA synthesis and storage |
| plasma membrane | F. cellular motility |
| rough endoplasmic reticulum | G. intracellular digestion |
| nucleus | H. use of oxygen to generate energetically useful molecules |
| mitochondrion | K. DNA synthesis |
| ribosome | M. synthesis of proteins for export |
| N. RNA synthesis | |
| O. site of ribosome synthesis | |
| P. organization of microtubules in mitotic & meiotic spindle | |
| R. modification of proteins for export |