Laboratory Summary Questions: Lab #3 - The Cell
The answers to these questions must be typed. No credit will be given if the answers are not
typed. Staple the answers to these summary questions to the back of your laboratory homework
packet.
1.
Define the term “Turgor Pressure”
2.
In lab we looked at eukaryotic cells. List two ways eukaryotic cells differ from prokaryotic cells.
a.
b.
3.
Name an organism that moved in lab:
a.
Using cilia
b.
Using flagella
4.
Define the term hyposmotic.
5.
When an animal cell is placed in a hyposmotic solution it bursts. When a plant cell in placed in a
hyposmotic solution the turgor pressure increases. What structural differences in plant and
animal cells account for the difference in outcomes when the cell is placed in a hyposmotic
solution?
6.
What structural differences between plant and animal cells allow plants to be autotrophic when
animals are heterotrophic?
7.
Define the term hyperosmotic.
8.
Define the term plasmolysis.