"Cells, Cells, They're Made of Organelles"
What is a mitochondrion? -or- What are mitochondria?
Plants have these for photosynthesis.
What are chloroplasts?
This basic unit of matter is too small to be seen under a light microscope.
What is an atom?
This is what "eukaryote" means if you consider both its prefix and root word.
What are prokaryotes?
The cell's "command center."
What is a nucleus?
This plant organelle sometimes contains toxins in it to deter predators from eating the plant.
What is a central vacuole?
These infection-causing agents are too small to be seen under a light microscope. Scientists don't consider them to be alive because they can reproduce without infecting a host.
What is a virus?
This refers to a complex of DNA and proteins in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.
What is chromatin?
A single human heart cell can have between 3,000 and 5,000 of these.
What are mitochondria?
"The FedEx of the cell."
What is a Golgi Apparatus?
Plant cells have this to regulate what can and cannot enter them.
What is a cell membrane?
The dude who discovered the bacteria growing on his own teeth when he looked at his plaque under a microscope called them this instead of bacteria.
What are "animacules?"
Proteins that are made in this series of membranes usually travel to the Golgi Apparatus and then outside of the cell.
What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough ER)?
This is why proteins are needed in chromatin.
What is something to the effect of "the DNA is super long?"
The cell's "recycling center."
What is a lysosome?
If your house plant looks wilted, it's probably that this organelle doesn't have enough water in it.
What is a central vacuole?
Single celled organisms and cell tissues are hard to see under a light microscope, so you should probably do this to prepare them first.
What is "stain them" or staining?
These residents of lysosomes digest macromolecules into their components to recycle them back into the cell. They require an acidic environment to do that job.
What are enzymes?
Scientists believe that this organelle was once a bacteria that was eaten but not digested by a larger organism.
What is a mitochondria (or a chloroplast too!)
Someone called this organelle a "suicide bag."
What is a lysosome?
This complex carbohydrate (sugar) is the primary component of plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
This expensive and large microscope uses a beam of electrons to scan the surface of a specimen. In doing so, it can capture 3D images of that specimen.
What is a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)?
When a cell prepares to undergo cell division (mitosis) the chromatin in the nucleus "condenses" (coils up even tighter) and is then called this instead.
What is a chromosome?
This is the name of the pigment found in chloroplasts.
What is chlorophyll?