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What is an organelle?
A cell part that serves a specific function.
What does it mean to have a high or low concentration of water?
To have a lot or a little amount of water in an area.
What is the mitochondria also known as?
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
In our lab: What 3 pieces of evidence did we capture?
Mass of carrot, fit of string, texture.
The structure that moves material throughout the cell (like a highway).
What is endoplasmic reticulum?
What direction do molecules flow through a concentration gradient?
From high to low concentration.
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What's the difference between osmosis and diffusion?
Osmosis is specifically the diffusion of water molecules. Any molecule can diffuse from high to low concentration.
What cell parts cleans up and disposes of warn parts?
What is lysosomes?
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What is the small, round organelle involved with digestion?
What is lysosome?
Why would salt kill a slug?
It would dehydrate it by pulling water out.
What would happen if you had an IV with pure freshwater?
Your cells would swell because water would enter.
Genetic material that carries information about the organism.
What is DNA?
Both plant and animal cells need energy to survive. How do their ways of getting energy differ?
Plant cells make sugar by doing photosynthesis in the chloroplasts. Animal cells consume food.
In our lab: Which carrot lost mass? Why?
Saltwater - there was a lower concentration of water outside the cell so water left.