Cell Vocabulary
Microscopes
Cell Parts
Organelles
Types of Cells
100
A widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things.
What is cell theory?
100
An instrument that makes small objects look bigger?
What is a microscope?
100
A rigid layer that surrounds the cells of plants and other organisms.
What is cell wall?
100
Often called the ER is an organelle with a network of membranes that produce many substances.
What is endoplasmic reticulum?
100
A cell that contains cytoplasts.
What is a plant cell.
200
A rigid layer that surrounds the cells of plants and other organisms.
What is a cell wall?
200
English scientist who built his own microscopes.
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
Contain substances that break down large food particles in a cell.
What is Lysosomes?
200
Dot some parts of the ER while others float in the cytoplasm of a cell.
What are ribosomes?
200
Contain a cell wall.
What is a plant cell.
300
Controls which substances pass in and out of a cell.
What is a cell membrane?
300
Use beams of electrons to produce a magnified image.
What is an electron microscope?
300
Captures energy from sunlight and changes it to form of energy cells can use in making food.
What is Chloroplasts?
300
Receives proteins and other newly formed materials from the ER, packages them, and distributes them to other parts of the cell or to the outside of the cell.
What is a Golgi Apparatus?
300
Contain lysosomes.
What is an Animal cell?
400
Acts as a cells control center.
What is a nucleus?
400
Uses 2 lenses at once to magnify an image.
What is a compound microscope?
400
Stores water and food or other materials needed by the cell.
What are vacuoles?
400
Make leaves green.
What is Chloroplasts?
400
Found in animals.
What is an animal cell?
500
Converts energy stored in food to energy the cell can use to live and function.
What is mitochondria?
500
The degree to which 2 separate structures that are close together and can be distinguished.
What is resolution?
500
Small grain shaped organelles that produce proteins.
What are ribosomes?
500
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is Mitochondria?
500
Found in plants
What is a plant cell?
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