EMS Biology

• Download and complete this worksheet.

• Watch this video.

• With all the additional new words you have looked at – find a diagram of a more complex animal and plant cell, draw and label.

• What is the difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell?

• To really get familiar with some of these terms – construct a model of an animal or plant cell of AS standard i.e. using all the new cell organelles to help you learn what they look like.

• Follow the links and recap what diffusion is:

• Click here and  here

• What is diffusion? Explain in as much detail as possible.

• Give some examples of where diffusion would occur, to include one example in animals, plants and any other you can think of.

• What is meant by a partially permeable membrane?

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• What is osmosis?

• What happens to plant cells that take up water by osmosis?

• What happens to plant cells that lose water by osmosis?

• What is active transport?

• Where does the energy come from for active transport?

Can you:  Try and find an animation that helps to explain active transport.

You can also download these questions and links as a Word file:

 You can download the whole project here: