Cells, Tissues, Organs

Formative Assessment
1. Name the structures through which substances
enter and leave the nucleus.

2. Name the type of chromatin that is dominant in a

cell that is actively transcribing DNA.

3. Name the membrane-bounded organelle in a

eukaryotic cell where oxidative phosphorylation
takes place.

4. The inner nuclear membrane contains proteins that

act as binding sites for chromatin and what other
structure.
5. Name the process whereby material originating
within the cell is destroyed by lysosomal action.

6. What do primary lysosomes contain?

7. Name ONE function of smooth endoplasmic

reticulum.

8. Name a distinctive morphological difference

between rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
9. List TWO functions of the cytoskeleton other than
as a structural support.

10. What provides the structural support for cilia?

11. Name the four basic tissues of the body.

12. Name the principal cell present in the epidermis.

13. Name the most superficial stratum of epidermis.

14. Name the granules (visible with light microscopy) in

the stratum granulosum.

15. Name the main tissue type and subtype present in

the dermis.

16. Name the adhesion specialisations present between

neighbouring cells in the epidermis.
17. Name the main tissue type and subtype present in
hypodermis.

18. Name a cell type important in skin pigmentation.

19. Give the name for the smooth muscle bundle

associated with hair follicles.

20. Name the connective tissue sheath that underlies

hypodermis.
21. Name the three basic components of connective
tissues.

22. Name the fibrous connective tissue sheath that

surrounds cartilage.

23. Name the bone cells that resorb bone matrix.

24. Name the type of ossification that creates the

cranial bones.
25. Name the structure in striated muscle to which actin
myofilaments are attached.

26. Name the connective tissue sheath that surrounds a

fascicle of skeletal muscle fibres.

27. Name the structure that binds individual cardiac

muscle cells to each other.

28. Name the two principal contractile proteins found in

smooth muscle.
29. Name the cells that undertake myelination of axons
in the peripheral nervous system.

30. Name the regions of the axon that mark the

boundary between one such cell (Qu. 29) and
another.

31. Name the collection of connective tissue elements

found between individual nerve fibres.

32. Give the name for a cluster of nerve cell bodies

found outside the central nervous system.
33. Name an organelle responsible for organising
microtubules.

34. Name the adhesion specialisations that anchor the

epidermis to the dermis.

35. Name the connective tissue sheath that surrounds

bone.

36. Name the embryonic cell from which all connective

tissue cells are derived.
37. Diffusion of a substance across the cell membrane
is an active process. (True or False)

38. Diffusion of a substance across the cell membrane

may provide energy for transport of another
molecule. (True or False)

39. During skeletal muscle contraction, calcium is

released from the T tubule. (True or False)

40. During skeletal muscle contraction, the

myofilaments to not change length. (True or False)
 Define these words

41 Iatrogenic disease
42 Aetiology
43 Pathogenesis
44 Lesion
45 Complications
 Cellular responses to Injury:
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Cell
Function
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Time (tends to be minutes/hours)

Effects of injury are dependent upon

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Q57-64 List 4 key properties of these
two types of cell death

NECROSIS APOPTOSIS
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Q65 Explain this diagram