Cells
What is the basic unit of life?
A cell
Which part of the cell controls its activities and holds DNA?
The nucleus
Which organelle in plant cells capture sunlight?
Chloroplasts
Which type of cell has a cell wall plant or animal?
Plant cells
What do we call the tiny parts inside the cell that have different jobs?
Organelles
What are the two main types of cells?
Plant and animal cells
What jelly like substance feels much of the cell?
Cytoplasm
Which structure gives plant cells, extra support and shape?
Cell wall
In which cell is the vacuole smaller?
Animal cells
Which organelle would cell need to capture sunlight and make it into food?
Chloroplasts
What tool did Anton Van Leeuwenhoek develop to help look at cells?
The microscope
Which part controls what enters the cell?
The cell membrane
Which organelle stores, water, and other materials inside the cell?
The vacuole
True or false: both plant and animal cells have a cell membrane?
True
Which organelle would a muscle need lots of health to provide energy?
Mitochondria
What is the difference between a unicellular and a multicellular organism?
Unicellular organisms have one cell; multicellular organisms have many cells.
Which organelle releases energy from food for the cell to use?
The mitochondria
Which organelle helps move materials around inside a cell?
The endoplasmic reticulum [ER]
Lysosomes are found in which type of cell?
Animal Cells
A cell needs instructions to control its activities. Which organelle does this?
The nucleus
Put these in order from smallest to largest; organ, cell, organism, tissue.
Cell → tissue → organ → organism.
A cell needs to make proteins to grown repair itself what tiny structures help make them?
Ribosomes
Which organelle packages and swords proteins so they can be scent where they are needed?
The Golgi apparatus
You look through a microscope and see chloroplasts and a large vacuole. Are you looking at a plant or animal cell?
A plant cell
Name one of the three basic components to cell theory.
1. The cell is the basic unit of life.
2. All organisms are composed of one or more cells.
3. All cells come from existing cells.