Key Questions:

1: Using diagrams, explain the difference between animal and plant cells.

2: Using a diagram of a bacteria, explain the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

3: Describe how the structure of specialised cells is linked to their function. (root hair cell, blood cell, sperm cell)

4: Explain the difference between diffusion, osmosis and active transport.

Quizlet Higher - Use for retrieval

https://quizlet.com/_5nwytu

Revision Strategies:

  • Retrieval practice drawing and labelling animal, plant and bacteria cells - Look, cover, write, check
  • Make connections by explain the similarities and differences of diffusion, osmosis and active transport.

Intervention Resources

ANIMAL CELLS - Interactive Activity

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  1. Read the information about the nucleus and watch the animation video
  2. Read the information about the cell membrane and watch the animation video
  3. Read the information about the mitochondria and watch the animation video
  4. Read the information about the cytoplasm and watch the animation video
  5. Complete the animal cell explorer quiz

How many did you get out of 10?

ANIMAL CELLS - Game

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1. See if you can successfully complete each mission - good luck!

How does your score sheet look?

PLANT CELLS - Interactive Activity

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  1. Read the information about the nucleus and watch the animation video
  2. Read the information about the cell membrane and watch the animation video
  3. Read the information about the mitochondria and watch the animation video
  4. Read the information about the cytoplasm and watch the animation video
  5. Read the information about the cell wall and watch the animation video
  6. Read the information about the chloroplasts and watch the animation video
  7. Read the information about the vacuole and watch the animation video
  8. Complete the plant cell explorer quiz

How many did you get out of 10?

ORGANELLES - Card Sort Activity

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  1. Complete the task by correctly rearranging the organelle's name, picture and function together (page 1)
  2. Check your answers (page 2)


organelles card sort.pdf

CONSTRUCT A CELL - Interactive Game

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https://www.wiley.com/college/boyer/0470003790/animations/cell_structure/cell_structure.htm


1. Choose animal, plant or prokaryotic cell and build with the correct organelles it needs


MICROSCOPES - Interactive Game/Activity

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https://www.brainpop.com/games/virtuallabsusingthemicroscope/


  1. Hover over each part of the microscope to read its function
  2. Set-up the microscope
  3. Look at the sample under low magnification
  4. Now look at your sample on high magnification
  5. Finally use an oil immersion to see your sample
  6. Read the results discussion
  7. Like all good scientists, clean up
  8. Conclusion

Well done!

MICROSCOPY - Exam Questions

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https://mathsmadeeasy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/4.1.1.5-GCSE-Biology-AQA-OCR-EDEXCEL.-Microscopy-Questions-.pdf


  1. Complete the exam questions on microscopy

Good luck!

STEM CELLS - Video

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https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/stemcells/scintro/

  1. Watch the video on 'The Nature of Stem Cells'


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https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/stemcells/sctypes/

  1. Watch the video on 'Stem Cell Niches' and find out about different niches around the body


STEM CELLS - Research/Discussion

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https://getrevising.co.uk/grids/stem_cell_research_advantages_and_disadvantages

  1. Read through the statements of advantages and disadvantages for Stem Cell Research
  2. What are your views on Stem Cell Research?
  3. In a small group, have a scientific discussion on Stem Cell Research


CHROMOSOMES & MITOSIS - Interactive Activity

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https://biomanbio.com/HTML5GamesandLabs/Genegames/mitosismoverpage.html

  1. Mitosis Mover, start a new game
  2. Work through the information about chromosomes and mitosis


CHROMOSOMES & MITOSIS - Exam Questions

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https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/z2kmk2p/test

  1. Try these exam questions

Good luck!

CHROMOSOMES, GENES & DNA - Activities

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  1. Complete in missing word sentences in task 1 (page 1)
  2. Draw lines to match up the beginning and the end of the sentences relating to chromosomes, genes and DNA (page 2)
  3. Correctly match-up the cards to complete each sentence (page 3)
  4. Check you answers (page 4)


chromosomes, dna, genes.pdf

DIFFUSION - Interactive Video

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https://authoring.concord.org/activities/12/pages/77/e807234e-cab9-4140-8a40-9fc3b3a3eb27


  1. Using the video simulation
    1. Trace a molecule, what do you notice about its movement?
    2. How does the molecules movement change with temperature?
    3. Add dye to the water sample and watch the process of the dye diffusing in the water sample
    4. Add a new drop of dye and increase the temperature, what do you notice about the rate of diffusion?
    5. Add a new drop of dye and decrease the temperature, what do you notice about the rate of diffusion?
    6. Answer question 1

OSMOSIS - Interactive Video


  1. Watch the video on osmosis and water potential

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-osEc07vMs&feature=youtu.be


Summary

  • Osmosis is the diffusion of water.
  • In comparing two solutions of unequal solute concentration, the solution with the higher solute concentration is hypertonic, and the solution with the lower concentration is hypotonic. Solutions of equal solute concentration are isotonic.
  • A contractile vacuole is a type of vacuole that removes excess water from a cell.


2. Answer the following questions

    1. What is osmosis? What type of transport is it?
    2. How does osmosis differ from diffusion?
    3. What happens to red blood cells when placed in a hypotonic solution?
    4. What will happen to a salt water fish if placed in fresh water?

TRANSPORT IN CELLS - Revise and Questions

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https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zs63tv4/revision/1

  1. Work through the revise material on transport in cells
  2. Once completed take the test

Good luck!

REVISION QUESTIONS

Cells and Microscopy

  1. What types of cell are bacteria - prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
  2. Name five sub-cellular structures that both plant and animal cells have
  3. What three things do plant cells have that animal cells don't?
  4. Where is the genetic material found in:
    1. Animal cells
    2. Bacterial cells
  5. Which has a higher resolution - a light microscope or an electron microscope?


Differentiation and Division

  1. What is cell differentiation?
  2. Give two ways that a sperm cell is adapted for swimming to an egg
  3. Draw a diagram of a nerve cell. Why is it this shape?
  4. What are chromosomes?
  5. What is the cell cycle?
  6. What do multicellular organisms use mitosis for?


Stem Cells

  1. Give one way that embryonic stem cells could be used to cure diseases
  2. Why might some people be against using human embryos in stem cell research?


Exchanging Substances

  1. What is diffusion?
  2. How does temperature affect the rate of diffusion?
  3. What type of molecules move by osmosis?
  4. Name the process that plants use to take up mineral ions from the soil
  5. Give three ways that exchange surfaces can be adapted for diffusion
  6. Give one way in which alveoli are adapted for gas exchange
  7. Give two ways that the villi in the small intestine are adapted for absorbing digested food
  8. Name the holes in the surface of a leaf that gases diffuse through