Cell Organelles
The organelle in both plant and animals cells that acts like the brain and holds all of the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Animal cells are _________, while plant cells are usually __________. (think shape)
What is round (or irregular shaped), and rectangular (or geometric).
Where gas exchange happens between the lungs and the capillaries
What are alveoli?
This is the stage where the cell spends most of its life cycle.
What is interphase?
What structure prevents food from enetering the trachea?
What is the epiglottis?
The site of protein synthesis...
What is the ribosome?
This type of cell can transform sun energy into food energy.
What are plant cells?
This blood vessel always carries blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
The organelles that attach spindle fibers to chromosomes?
What are centrioles?
Bacterial cells can also be called _______________
What is prokaryotic?
This organelle is responsible for performing photosynthesis and is only found in plant cells.
What are chloroplasts?
When looking at any plant cell under a microscope, we would see a thick ______________.
What is a cell wall.
This is the site for most nutrient absorption
What is the small intestine?
The stage in which the nuclear membrane disappears and the chromatin condense into chromosomes.
What is prophase.
The key feature of prokaryotes is that they lack this specific structure.
What is a nuclear membrane? (aka a "true" nucleus)
A sac filled with water and stored nutrients, it is usually much larger in plant than animal cells
What is a vacuole?
The organelle found in animal cells that is produced only for mitosis in order to make spindle fibers
What are centrioles?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body
What is the left ventricle?
The stage of mitosis where chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
Two tasks in interphase that must be achieved before a cell can go though mitosis
What are cell growth and chromosome duplication?
This organelle protects the cell and controls the movement of substances into and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This type of cell has a nucleus
What are eukaryotic cells?
The cell body, axon, and dendrites are components of what kind of specialized cell?
What are neurons?
The stage of cell division where a cleavage furrow is formed in animal cells and a cell plate develops in plant cells.
What is cytokinesis?
The muscles involved in breathing
What is the diaphragm and the intercostals?