GCSE Biology – Specialized cells

Last updated: 19/04/2020
WJEC GCSE Science – Double science foundation Cells and movement across cell membranes GCSE Biology – Specialized cells

Learning Objectives

-I can explain cell differentiation
-I can describe and explain a range of specialized cells

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  1. What is cell differentiation?

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  2. What happens when a cell differentiates?

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  3. At what stage do animal cells differentiate?

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  4. At what stage do plant cells differentiate?

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  5. What is cell specialisation?

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  6. What does unicellular mean?

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  7. Why do root hair cells have thin walls?

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  8. Why do xylem cells have no connecting walls?

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  9. Why are xylem cells strengthened with lignin?

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  10. Why do phloem cells have companion cells?

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  11. What is the function of a sperm cell’s tail?

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  12. What is the function of the sperm cell’s mitochondria?

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  13. What does the fatty (myelin) sheath do on a nerve cell?

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  14. What does the dendrite (branch) do?

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  15. Why do muscle cells have lots of mitochondria?

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  16. What do protein filaments do in muscle cells?

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  17. What is structure A? 

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  18. What is structure B?  

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  19. What is structure C? 

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  20. What is structure D?  

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  21. What is structure E?  

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  22. What is structure F?  

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  23. What is structure A? 

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  24. What is structure B?  

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  25. What is structure C?  

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