Cells
A cell that has no nucleus or other distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
The semipermeable membrane between the cell contents and the cell's surroundings.
What is a plasma membrane?
Protects the cell and gives it shape.
What is a cell wall?
Non-membrane-bound organelle responsible for synthesizing proteins.
What is the ribosome?
The organelles where proteins and lipids are stored and then modified to suit the needs of the cell. Looks like stacks of pancakes.
What is a Golgi apparatus?
A cell with a membrane-bound nucleus and other distinct, membrane-bound organelles.
What is a Eukaryotic cell?
The jellylike fluid inside the cell in which the organelles are suspended.
What is cytoplasm?
Protects the cell and regulates what goes into and out of the cell.
What is a plasma membrane?
Double-membrane-bound organelle responsible for cellular respiration.
What is mitochondria?
An organelle composed of an extensive network of folded membranes that performs several tasks within a cell. There are 2 types - Rough ER and Smooth ER.
What is Endoplasmic reticulum?
The invention of this helped scientists find evidence of cells in every organism they observed.
What is the microscope?
The motion of cytoplasm in a cell that results in a coordinated movement of the cell's content.
What is cytoplasmic streaming?
A gel-like substance in which all of the organelles are found.
What is cytoplasm?
Double-membrane-bound organelles (chloroplasts, chromoplasts, leucoplasts) responsible for making or storing food.
What is plastids?
A network of fibers that holds the cell together, helps the cell to keep its shape, and aids in movement.
What is the cytoskeleton?
The four structures that are common to all cells.
What are DNA, plasma membrane, cytoplasm, and ribosomes?
Non-membrane-bound organelles that synthesize proteins.
What are ribosomes?
The control center of the cell that contains the DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Membrane-bound, enzyme-containing sacs responsible for the breakdown of food.
What are lysosomes?
The paired organelles (positioned at right angles to each other) that organize fibers required for cell division; found in animal cells.
What are centrioles?
A tiny cellular structure that carries out a specific function necessary for the cell to survive.
What is an organelle?
A rigid structure on the outside of certain cells, usually plant and bacteria cells.
What is a cell wall?
The main function is to store the instructions so ribosomes can produce proteins.
What is DNA?
Membrane-bound, enzyme-containing sacs responsible for the breakdown of fatty acids and the decomposition of H2O2.
What are peroxisomes?
The three basic kinds of fibers that make up the cytoskeleton.
What are the microfilaments, intermediate filaments, and the microtubules?