Cell Organelles
Characteristics of Life
Cell Theory
Complex and Simple Cells
Plants and Animals
100
This organelle is the control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
100
A parent measuring a child's height monthly exhibits what characteristic of life?
What is growth and development?
100

This scientific technology was essential for the development of the cell theory. 

What is a microscope?

100
This type of cell HAS a nucleus. Both plant and animal cells are this type of cell.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
100
This type of cell is a square shape because it has a cell wall.
What is a plant cell?
200
This organelle gets rid of the waste in the cell.
What is the lysosome?
200
A mama duck just hatched 6 new baby ducklings. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
What is reproduction?
200
All living things are composed of _____________.
What are cells?
200
This type of cell has NO nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
200
This type of cell has no cell wall, only a membrane.
What is an animal cell?
300
These organelles make the proteins.
What are ribosomes?
300
When you look at a leaf and a sample of human skin, we see that they are both made of tiny "building blocks". What characteristic of life does this represent?
What is "All living things are composed of cells?"
300
Cells are the basic and smallest unit of _________.
What is life?
300

This type of prokaryotic cell is everywhere, in your yogurt, on the door handle, and even in your intestines!

What is bacteria?

300
This type of cell can make its own food through photosynthesis and by use of the organelle the chloroplast.
What is a plant cell?
400
This organelle is like the protein super-highway providing pathways for proteins to travel throughout the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum (E.R)
400

The characteristic of life, "convert nutrients to energy", primarily happens in this organelle of eukaryotic organisms. 

What is mitochondria?

400
All cells come from _____________.
What is preexisting cells?
400

True or false: Viruses are considered a simple cell.

What is false? (they are not made of cells)

400
These are the two organelles a plant cell has but animal cell does not.
What is a chloroplast and a cell wall?
500

This organelle provides the energy for all cells, through cellular respiration.

What is the mitochondria?

500

When we get dust in our nose, we sneeze, showing this characteristic of living things.

What is respond to stimuli?

500
This man discovered the cell by observing cork under a microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
500
This cell has more membrane bound organelles and is clearly the most complex type of cell.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
500
This is the pigment that gives a plant cell its color, found in the chloroplast.
What is chlorophyll?
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