Refer to your 'Organelles and Cellular Structures' lecture notes for this. A soft copies of the lecture notes is available in your Google Classroom.

Students should be able to:

(a)  Outline the cell theory with the understanding that cells are the smallest unit of life, all cells come from pre-existing cells and living organisms are composed of cells.

(b)  Interpret and recognise drawings, photomicrographs and electron micrographs of the cytoplasm (cytosol) and cellulose cell wall, and the following membrane systems and organelles: rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi body, mitochondria, ribosomes, lysosomes, chloroplasts, cell surface membrane, nuclear envelope, centrioles, nucleus and nucleolus. 

[H2 only] For practical assessment, candidates may be required to operate a light microscope, mount slides and use an eyepiece graticule and a stage micrometer.

(c)  Outline the functions of the membrane systems and organelles.

(d) Describe the structure of a typical bacterial cell (small and unicellular, peptidoglycan cell wall, circular DNA, 70S ribosomes and lack of membrane-bound organelles).

(e) [H2 only] Describe the structural components of viruses, including enveloped viruses and bacteriophages, and interpret drawings and photographs of them.

(f)   [H2 only] Discuss how viruses challenge the cell theory and concepts of what is considered living.