This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell”
What is the mitochondria?
The ”control center” of the cell, also stores the DNA
What is the nucleus?
The network of protein fibers inside the cell that provides support and motility
What is the cytoskeleton?
Plasma membranes are made mainly of this substance
What are phospholipids?
A sugar attached to a protein
What is a glycoprotein?
The two types of cells
What are eukaryotes and prokaryotes?
The organelle which produces phospholipids and proteins
What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The organelle that detoxifies alcohol and toxins, also synthesizes complex lipids
What is the Smooth E.R.?
Keratin makes up this cytoskeleton structure
What are intermediate filaments?
Definition of ”Amphipathic”
DAILY DOUBLE
The main purpose of intercellular joining
What is ”to stick together and make tissues” ?
The name for the vesicle which buds off of the Golgi Apparatus
What is the vesicle of the Golgi Apparatus?
The two organelles, besides the nucleus, which have two bi-membranes and their own DNA
What are the Mitochondria and Chloroplast?
What are 3 organelles found only in plant cells
What are the Cell wall, Large Central Vacuole, and Chloroplast?
Cytoskeleton structure used as a track for movement

What are microtubules?
The name of the network OUTSIDE the cell that is attached to the plasma membrane
What is the Extracellular Matrix?
“Rivet“ joints between cells to form strong sheets

What are desmosomes?
The process whereby a Lysosome kills the cell
What is apoptosis or autolysis?
The organelle that contains stacks of thylakoids in stroma fluid
What is the chloroplast?
The organelle with a pH less than 7 in its interior, and also stores digestive enzymes
What is the lysosome?
The cytoskeleton fiber involved in muscle contractions
What are microfilaments?
The steroid that regulates fluidity and spacing in the plasma membrane
What is cholesterol?
The three types of cell joints
What are the tight joint, gap joint, and desmosome?
The term commonly used to measure light but also refers to the spaces inside organelles
What is “lumen”?
The organelle which neutralizes damaging free radicals (Oxygen ions) in cells and is named for the compound it commonly produces
What is the peroxisome?
The characterizing feature of all organelles
What is to have a phospholipid bimembrane layer?
Cell structure from which microtubules radiate
What are centrosomes/centrioles?
The Plasma membrane is described as this model
What is Fluid Mosaic?
The main form of intercellular communication in plants, via holes in the cell wall
What are plasmodesmata?
The theory which states that mitochondria and chloroplasts originally were prokaryotic cells that got incorporated into eukaryotic cells through a mutually beneficial relationship
What is the Endosymbiont Theory?