Organelles
This organelle acts as the brain or control center of the cell, holding all the genetic material.
What is the nucleus?
This rigid, outer protective layer is found only in plant cells, giving them a boxy shape.
What is the cell wall?
To be considered living, an organism must be made up of one or more of these basic building blocks of life.
What are cells?
This term describes an organism that spends its entire life consisting of only one single cell.
What is unicellular?
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What is Australia?
Often called the powerhouse of the cell, this organelle breaks down food to create cellular energy.
What is the mitochondrion (mitochondria)?
While plant cells have a cell wall, both plant and animal cells possess this flexible outer boundary that controls what enters and exits.
What is the cell membrane?
This is the process by which living things produce offspring to ensure their species continues to exist.
What is reproduction?
Humans, trees, and dogs belong to this category because they are made of many specialized cells working together.
What is multicellular?
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This gel-like fluid fills the inside of a cell and holds all the organelles in place.
What is cytoplasm?
If an animal cell suddenly turned completely green and started making its own food, it must have acquired this organelle.
What is a chloroplast?
When you touch a hot stove and pull your hand away, the heat is the stimulus and your movement is this characteristic of life.
What is a response?
Because unicellular organisms only have one cell, that single cell must perform all of these to stay alive.
What are the life functions (or characteristics of life)?
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This organelle stores water, nutrients, and waste. It is massive in plant cells but small in animal cells.
What is a vacuole?
Unlike plant cells which rely on a rigid cell wall for structural support, animal cells rely on skeletons and have this flexible shape.
What is round or irregular?
This term refers to an organism's ability to maintain a stable internal environment, like sweating to cool down.
What is homeostasis?
In multicellular organisms, cells group together by similar types to form this next level of biological organization.
What is a tissue?
Astronauts on the International Space Station get to experience 16 of these spectacular celestial events every single day because they orbit the Earth so fast. What are they?
What are sunrises and sunsets?
Green organelles found in plant cells that capture sunlight to perform photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
When a plant begins to wilt from dehydration, it is because this specific organelle has lost its water and shrunk.
What is the large central vacuole?
Non-living things like rocks can change size over time, but they lack this characteristic because they do not utilize energy to build new structures or develop.
What is growth and development?
These are the three core principles that state all living things are made of cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.
What is the Cell Theory?
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What is Panem?