Cell Basics
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
Which cell structure controls what enters and leaves the cell?
What is the cell membrane?
Which type of cell has a cell wall: plant or animal?
What is a plant cell?
Which type of cell does not have a nucleus?
What is a prokaryotic cell?
What jelly-like material fills the inside of a cell?
What is cytoplasm?
What are the three main statements of the cell theory?
What are: all living things are made of cells; cells are the basic unit of life; and all cells come from pre-existing cells?
Which organelle stores and protects most of the cell's DNA?
What is the nucleus?
What two structures are found in plant cells but not animal cells?
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
Are bacterial cells prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What are prokaryotic cells?
What is the main job of the cell membrane?
What is controlling what enters and leaves the cell?
What is the smallest structure that can carry out all life processes?
What is a cell?
Which organelle makes proteins?
What are ribosomes?
What large structure in a plant cell stores water?
What is the central vacuole?
Where is the main DNA found in a bacterial cell?
What is the nucleoid region?
What process do chloroplasts help plant cells perform?
What is photosynthesis?
What type of microscope helped scientists discover and study cells?
What is a microscope?
Which organelle helps release usable energy from food?
What is the mitochondrion?
Are plant and animal cells prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What are eukaryotic cells?
Which type of cell has a nucleus: prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What is a eukaryotic cell?
What important substance do ribosomes produce for the cell?
What are proteins?
Why are cells called the building blocks of life?
Because all living things are made of one or more cells, which carry out the functions needed for life.
Which organelle uses sunlight to help a plant cell make sugar?
What is the chloroplast?
Both plant and animal cells have a nucleus. Name two other structures they share.
What are the cell membrane, cytoplasm, mitochondria, or ribosomes?
Name one structure found in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What are the cell membrane, cytoplasm, DNA, or ribosomes?
Why does a cell need energy, and which organelle helps release usable energy from food?
Cells need energy to carry out life processes, and the mitochondrion helps release usable energy from food.