Cell Basics
Cell Theory
Microscopes
Cell Function
Organisms
100
The basic units of structure and function in living things.
What is Cells?
100
An instrument that makes small objects look larger.
What is microscope?
100
The condition of things appearing larger than they appear.
What is magnification?
100
A rigid layer that surrounds the cells of plants and some other organisms.
What is a cell wall?
100
Organisms made of many cells are called this.
What is multicellular?
200
A mushroom, a tree, a spider, a bird, and you have this in common.
What are organisms?
200
In 1663, Robert Hooke used his microscope to obeserve a thin peice of this.
What is cork?
200
This type of microscope can magnify an object more than a single lens can.
What is a compound microscope?
200
This controls which substances pass into and out of a cell.
What is a cell membrane?
200
Single-celled organisms are called this.
What is unicellular?
300
This type of cell is the most common found in lungs.
What is oxygen?
300
Around 1674, this researcher looked at drops of lake water, scrapings from teeth and gums, and water from rain gutters.
What is Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
300
This type of organism lives in everyones home.
What is dust mites.
300
This acts as a cell's control center, directing all of the cell's activities.
What is the nucleus?
300
This is a group of similar cells that work together to perform a specific funtion.
What is tissue?
400
This type of cell provides your body with energy and materials needed for growth.
What is food?
400
They provide clues about the functions that all living things perform.
What are cells?
400
The degree to which two separate structures that are close together can be distinguished is called this.
What is a resolution?
400
This fills the region between the cell membrane and the nucleus.
What is the cytoplasm?
400
This is made of different kinds of tissues that funtion together.
What is an organ?
500
He was the first researcher to see bacteria under a microscope.
What is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
500
In 1885, who wrote, "all cells come from cells."
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
500
This device type uses a beam of electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image.
What is an Electron Microscope?
500
This is an organelle with a network of membranes that produces many substances.
What is a endoplasmic reticulim?
500
This is a group of organs that work together to perform a major funtion.
What is an organ system?
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