Cell Basics
These are known as the building blocks of life.
What are cells?
This process is specifically the diffusion of water molecules across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
This provides the energy needed for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
When a cell reproduces, it produces these two similar cells.
What are daughter cells?
Often called the “brain” of the cell, this organelle controls many of the cell's activities.
What is the nucleus?
This is the clear, gel-like fluid that makes up most of a cell.
What is cytoplasm?
This type of transport requires energy from the cell.
What is active transport?
Organisms that make their own food, usually using sunlight, are called these.
What are autotrophs?
Cell division can be used for growth, repair, replacing damaged cells, and this fourth function.
What is reproduction?
This organelle captures light energy and is the site of photosynthesis in plant cells.
What is the chloroplast?
One principle of cell theory states that all living things are made of these.
What are cells?
This type of transport does not require cellular energy and includes processes such as diffusion and osmosis.
What is passive transport?
Organisms that must obtain food by consuming other organisms are called these.
What are heterotrophs?
These are the main phases of the cell cycle.
What are interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis?
This organelle is responsible for producing much of the cell's usable energy through cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
According to cell theory, new cells come from these.
What are pre-existing cells?
A cell uses this process to expel large particles from the cell.
What is exocytosis?
This is considered the reverse process of photosynthesis.
What is cellular respiration?
This is the sequence of events that a cell goes through as it grows and reproduces.
What is the cell cycle?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell, helping maintain the cell's internal environment.
What is the cell membrane?
These is the type of microscope that we have in the classroom.
What is a light Microscope?
A cell takes in a large particle from its surroundings using this process.
What is endocytosis?
This is the location of the second stage of cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondria.
These are the four things cell division is used for.
What are replacing, reproducing, repairing, and growth?
A plant cell needs to control its activities, release energy from food, and make food using sunlight. The organelles responsible for these three functions are these three.
What are the nucleus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts?