Pro vs Eu
This term describes a cell that lacks a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What is a Prokaryote?
Often called the "powerhouse," this organelle converts glucose into ATP.
The cell membrane is primarily composed of this "double-layer" of lipid molecules.
What is the Phospholipid Bilayer?
Osmosis is specifically the diffusion of this molecule across a semi-permeable membrane.
What is Water
Unlike animal cells, plant cells have this rigid outer layer made of cellulose.
What is the Cell Wall?
While they differ in many ways, both cell types contain these "protein-making factories."
What are Ribosomes?
This "control center" houses the cell's genetic blueprint.
What is the Nucleus?
This type of transport requires energy (ATP) because it moves molecules against the concentration gradient.
What is Active Transport?
In this type of solution, the concentration of solutes is the same inside and outside the cell.
What is Isotonic?
These green organelles are the site of photosynthesis.
What are Chloroplasts?
Prokaryotes have 3 layers that protect them from the outside world. They have a cell membrane, a cell wall, and another layer.
What is a capsule?
Plant cells have this large, central structure for water storage that helps maintain turgor pressure.
What is the Large Central Vacuole?
This describes the membrane's ability to allow some substances through while blocking others.
What is Selective Permeability (or Semi-permeable)?
If a cell is placed in this type of solution, water will rush in, potentially causing the cell to swell or burst.
What is Hypotonic?
Chloroplasts create glucose by doing this process.
What is photosynthesis?
In a eukaryotic cell, the DNA is in chromosomes; however, in a prokaryote, the DNA is usually called this.
What is free-floating?
This organelle acts as a shipping and receiving center, modifying and packaging proteins.
What is the Golgi Apparatus (or Golgi Body)?
When molecules move from high to low concentration through a protein channel without using energy, it is called this.
What is Facilitated Diffusion?
A salt-water environment is this type of solution to a human cell, causing the cell to shrivel.
What is Hypertonic?
While both have them, animal cells have many small versions of these, whereas plants have one giant one.
What are Vacuoles?
Prokaryotes need to have locomotion and do so by using this "organelle"
What is a flagellum?
These contain digestive enzymes to break down waste; they are the cell's "cleanup crew."
What are Lysosomes?
This "bulky" process involves the membrane folding inward to bring large particles into the cell.
What is Endocytosis?
This term describes the shrinking of the cell membrane away from the cell wall in a plant cell placed in salt water.
What is Plasmolysis?
These two organelles work hand in hand, although only plant cells have both, whereas animal cells only have one of them.
What are the chloroplasts and mitochondria?