Plant cells
This sac within the cytoplasm stores water, food and waste products
What is a vacuole.
Basic building blocks of all living things
What are cells?
A cell membrane is called______________ because it allows some substances to pass through but disallows others
What is semipermeable?
Concentration of a solute in the cell’s cytoplasm is equal to solute in the surrounding solution
What is isotonic?
Structure that animal cells do not have but plant cells do
What is a cell wall
Stiff wall surrounding the cell membrane, giving the cell a rigid box-like shape
What is the cell wall?
Substances that can not be broken down into simpler substances
What are elements?
The main method by which substances move in or out of the cell
What is diffusion?
Most chemical reactions that take place in the cells can only occur when substances are dissolved in this
What is water?
Small organelles containing chemicals that break down food particles and worn-out cell parts
What are lysosomes?
Organelles that capture energy from sunlight and use it to produce food for the cell
What are chloroplasts?
Most compounds containing carbon are called
What is organic compounds?
Diffusion and osmosis are forms of what type of cell transport
What is passive transport?
What do the letters DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Area between the cell membrane and the nucleus. It contains a gel-like fluidic which many organelles are found
What is the cytoplasm?
Referred to as the “cell’s mail room, it receives proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum to package and distribute throughout the cell
What is the Golgi body?
Most important group of organic compounds found in living things
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids?
Diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane
What is osmosis?
Plants make their own food through the process of.....
What is photosynthesis?
Rod shaped organelles referred to as the “ powerhouse of the cell”
What is mitochondria?
Spot in the nucleus where ribosomes are made
What is the nucleoli?
Protein molecules are made up of smaller molecules called
What are amino acids?
Proteins that pick up molecules outside the cell and carry them inside
What are transport proteins.
Plants gather energy from the sun and use it to make a sugar called
What is glucose?
Portion of the cell directing all the cell’s activities, including reproduction
What is the nucleus?