Cell Organelles
This process is defined by the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane, from an area of low solute concentration to high solute concentration. (Hint: Think Water Purification)
What is osmosis?
What structure is found only in plant cells and not in animal cells?
What is a cell wall?
Scientist who together stated that all organisms are made of cells (plant & animal)
Who are Schleiden and Schwann?
This structure in the nucleus is the site of ribosomal RNA synthesis is composed of RNA and proteins, and plays a vital role in assembling ribosomes.
What is a nucleolus?
Passageways through the cell that transports material...can be rough or smooth
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum?
True or False: The largest single cell is an ostrich egg.
What is true?
If a cell were the size of a basketball court, what would the nucleus be?
What is a marble?
This phase of the cell cycle involves the separation of chromatids to opposite poles of the cell, a crucial step before the cell divides into two daughter cells.
What is anaphase?
Plants do not have bones. This Organelle gives them their structure....
What is a cell wall?
The scientist who named cells
Who is Robert Hooke?
This type of filament is part of the cytoskeleton and is responsible for providing mechanical strength, as well as facilitating cellular movement and division.
What are intermediate filaments?
Sorts and sends material to where it is needed in the cell...
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The three organelles that are unique to plant cells
What is chloroplast, cell wall, and central vacuole
This Organelle allows plants to convert sunlight to energy....
What is a chloropast?
What are the three statements of the cell theory?
all cells come from preexisting cells
cells are the basic unit of life
all organisms are made of one or more cells
This theory, known as the endosymbiotic theory, proposes that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated from free-living bacteria that were engulfed by ancestral eukaryotic cells.
What is endosymbiotic theory?