CELLULAR FUNCTIONS
CELL FUNCTIONS II
THE CELL
CELL WALL II
CELL WALL III
100
The transport of dissolved substances into cells
What is absorption?
100
The study of cells
What is cytology?
100
a rigid structure on the outside of certain cells, usually plant and bacteria cells
What is the cell wall?
100
The organelles in which nutrients are converted to energy
What is mitochondria?
200
The breakdown of absorbed substances.
What is digestion?
200
The removal of soluble waist materials
What is excretion?
200
the semipermeable membrane between the cell contents and either the cell wall or the cell's surroundings
What is the plasma membrane?
200
the organelle in animal cells responsible for hydrolysis reactions that break down proteins, polysaccharides, disaccharides, and some lipids
What is a lysosome
200
A large vacuole that rests at the center of most plant cells and is filled with a solution that contains a high concentration of solutes
What is a central vacuole?
300
The breakdown of food molecules with a release of energy
What is respiration?
300
Maintaining the status quo
What is homeostasis?
300
a jellylike fluid inside the cell in which the organelles are suspended
What is cytoplasm
300
non membrane bounded organelles responsible for protein synthesis
What is ribosomes ?
300
The process by which a cell engulfs foreign substances or other cells
What is phagocytosis?
400
The release of bio synthesized substances
What is secretion?
400
Reproducing more cells
What is reproduction?
400
substances in which at least one atom has an imbalance of protons and electrons
What is ions
400
ER that is dotted with ribosomes
What is rough ER?
400
The organells where proteins and lipids are stored, and then modified to suit the needs of the cell
What are Golgi Bodies?
500
The removal of non soluble waist materials
What is egestion?
500
sensing and responding to changes in the cell's surroundings
What is irritability?
500
Organelles that store starches or oils
What are leucoplasts?
500
ER that has no ribosomes
What is smooth ER?
500
Spiral strands of protein molecules that form a tube-like structure
What are microtubules?
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