Cells and Microbes

• Name five subcellular structures that both plant and animal cells have:

  Ribosomes, mitochondria, chloroplasts, nucleus, cell membrane
• Where is the genetic material found in:

  a.) animal cells

  b.) bacterial cells?

  eukaryotic cells (animal)

  • nucleus

  prokaryotic cells (bacterial)

  • stands floating around in the cytoplasm which may also contain one or more small rings of DNA called plasmids
• What three things do plant cells have that animal cells don’t?

  Cell wall, chloroplasts, and large central vacuole.
• What type of organism are bacteria - eukaryotes or prokaryotes?

  Prokaryotes
• which gives a higher resolution - a light microscope or an electron microscope?

  electron microscope