Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. What were the contributions of Robert Hooke and Anton von Leeuwenhoek to the history of Cell research?
2. Summarize the principles of the Cell Theory.
3. Compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
4. Give the definitions for the following structures that are found outside the cell walls of a bacterial cell: capsule, flagella, axial filaments, and pili.
5. What is the cell wall of a bacterial cell composed of? What is the function of the cell wall?
6. Discuss the results of the Gram Stain and the importance of the Gram Stain.
7. What are the functions of the Cell (Plasma) Membrane?
8. Describe the structure and function of the following: ribosomes, nucleoid, plasmids, and endospores
9. Describe the DNA of a bacterial cell and explain how it differs from the DNA of a eukaryotic cell.
10. Define the following types of reproduction that take place in a bacterial cell: binary fission, conjugation, transformation, and transduction.