Characteristics for Life
Cells / Cell Theory
Organelles
Bacteria and Viruses
Cell types
100
List the five characteristics for life.
- Energy, reproduction, responding, waste, growth
100
These three ingredients are required for photosynthesis.
What are light (energy), water, and carbon dioxide?
100
This organelle is responsible for controlling the functions of the cell?
What is the nucleus?
100
I am non-living and attack cells around me.
What is a virus?
100

This cell has a chloroplast and a cell wall

plant cell

200
Two adults have a child. Which characteristic for life does this represent?
What is reproduction?
200
These two ingredients are required for cellular respiration.
What are oxygen and sugar?
200
This organelle is only present in plant and bacteria cells.
What is a cell wall?
200
Bacteria can be in this small, round shape.
What is cocci?
200

This type of cell has smaller vacuoles and lysosomes

What is an animal cell

300
Your stomach grumbles when you wake up in the morning. Which characteristic for life does this represent?
What is gaining and using energy?
300
This kind of cell does not have a cell wall.
What is an animal cell?
300
This organelle is the site of photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
300
Bacteria can be found in this rod-like shape.
What is bacilli?
300

This type of cell has a nucleus and membrane bound organelles

What is a eukaryotic cell

400
My baby shoes are much too small for me now. Which characteristic for life does this represent?
What is growth and development?
400
This kind of cell uses a flagella to motor itself around.
What is a bacterium?
400
An infected cell is unable to package and sort proteins. This organelle must be damaged.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
400
These are three reasons we know viruses are not alive.
What are: 1. They are not made of cells and don't have cell parts. 2. They need a host in order to reproduce. 3. They do not grow and develop. 4. They do not respond to their environment.
400

This type of cell has no nucleus and the DNA are "floating" in the cell

What is a prokayriotic cell 

500
You breathe out carbon dioxide (which was made during cell respiration). Which characteristic for life does this represent?
What is waste elimination and energy use?
500
Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation with his broth experiment, thereby proving this axiom of cell theory.
What is all cell come from existing cells?
500
This organelle is present in plant cells, animal cells, and bacteria cells.
What are ribosomes?
500
These are the steps of virus reproduction.
The virus attaches to a host cell. It releases its DNA into the host. The DNA joins in with the host's DNA. The host copies the viral DNA thinking that it is its own. The proteins made by the viral DNA begin to assemble into new viruses. The new viruses break out of the host, killing it in the process.
500

Of the six kingdoms of organisms (plants, animals, protist, bacteria, archea, and fungi), which are prokaryotic and which are eukaryotic? 

prokaryotic- archea and bacteria

eukaryotic- plants, animals, fungi, protist

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