Organelles
The control center of the cell
What is the Nucleus?
The leaf structure responsible for glucose transport
What is a Phloem Vessel?
A membrane that only select particles can move through
What is a semi-permeable membrane?
The first lens your eye looks through when using a microscope
What is the ocular lens?
The belief that life could arise from non-living things
What is Spontaneous Generation (abiogenesis)
Repackages proteins for transport our of the cell
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
What is Oxygen?
Transport that requires energy
What is Active Transport?
The lenses that can be changed to affect magnification
What are objective lenses?
The process in which cells take in large molecules using energy
What is Endocytosis?
The site of cellular respiration
What is the Mitochondria?
The cells responsible for controlling transpiration in a leaf
What are Guard Cells?
A type of passive transport that uses carrier proteins
What is Facilitated Diffusion?
A microscope that involves shining light through a specimen
What is a compound light microscope?
The difference in concentration between two locations
What is a concentration gradient?
The site of Photosynthesis
What is a Chloroplast?
Hollow, dead cells that transport water into leaves
What are xylem vessels?
The part of a cell membrane that is hydrophobic
What is a lipid tail?
A microscope that gives a 3D image of a specimen at up to 300 000x magnification
What is a Scanning Electron Microscope?
The pressure from the large central vacuole pushing out on the cell walls
What is Turgor Pressure?
What the lysosome uses to digest food
What are enzymes?
The main sight of photosynthesis in a plant
What are palisade tissue cells?
The model used to describe a cell membrane
What is the Fluid Mosaic Model?
A thin glass piece that covers the specimen
What is a cover slip?
The attraction of water molecules to other water molecules
What is Cohesion?