Cells Quiz: questions and answers
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1. What is the study of cells called?
Cell biology
2. Who is considered "the Father of Microbiology"?
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
3. Who designed the first electron microscope?
Ernst Ruska
4. In cell biology, mitosis is:
A part of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei
5. How many haploid cells are produced in meiosis?
4
6. In which phase of cell division is the nuclear envelope broken down?
Prophase
7. What is the primary role of the flagellum?
Locomotion
8. The cell was first discovered by:
Robert Hooke
9. What is the name given to the material within a living cell excluding the cell nucleus?
Cytoplasm
10. What is the main function of the nucleus?
DNA maintenance, controls all activities of the cell, RNA transcription