Structure of a Cell
The smallest functional unit of life.
What is a cell?
A jellylike fluid inside the cell.
What is a cytoplasm?
This Russian scientist predicted that scientists would eventually find a network of tubes that acted as support structures, holding the cell in the shape that it needed to be.
Who is Nikolai Koltsov?
This is involved in the process of moving things around the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Plants make their own own food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Cells that do not have a nucleus.
What are prokaryotic cells?
An organism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
A German scientist that first experimented with different stains while examining cells. With one stain he identified tiny grains that formed long chains. He called these grains "bioblasts" and suggested that they were tiny living things inside the cell.
Who is Richard Altmann?
Most cells have lots of these. They are responsible for providing the cell with most of the energy that it needs.
What is mitochondria?
The chemical used to capture energy from light.
What is chlorophyll?
Cells that have a nucleus.
What are eukaryotic cells?
All living things are made up of one or more cells, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.
What is cell theory?
Italian scientist experimented with a lot of stains and with one stain noticed a new structure inside the cell.
Who is Camillo Golgi?
The smallest structure in the cell and they make protein.
What is a ribosome?
Something that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not -- surrounds the outside of the cell.
What is a cell wall?
What is 30-40 trillion cells?
A long-term relationship among different types of organisms from which all benefit.
What is Mutualism?
In 1899 this French scientist used different dyes to see gland cells under a microscope.
Who is Charles Garnier?
An organelle that holds lots of chemicals used to break down other chemicals.
What is a lysosome?
An organelle that is found in plant cells, but not found in animal cells.
What is the central vacuole?
An organelle in the cell which holds most of its DNA.
What is the nucleus?
An organ in the body that releases useful chemicals into the body.
What is a gland?
By 1866 this important scientist proposed that there are some cells that just don't have a nucleus.
Who is Ernst Haeckel?
A semipermeable barrier between the cell and its surroundings.
What is a plasma membrane?
The cell that houses cholophyll.
What is a chloroplast?