Vocabulary
The Control Center
What is the nucleus?
The shape of a plant cell
What is rectangular or box-like?
Describe asexual reproduction.
What is one parent; offspring is IDENTICAL to the parent?
The basic unit of life
What is a cell?
Storage space for food, water, and waste
What is the Vacuole?
Small round structure that helps in the making of proteins.
What are ribosomes?
The two parts of a plant cell that an animal cell does not have.
What are the Cell wall and the chloroplast?
Three parts to the cell theory.
What are...
1. cells are the basic unit of life
2. all living organisms are made of cells
3. New cells come from pre-existing cells.
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Surrounds a plant cell and adds extra support to the structure.
What is the Cell wall?
The two types of eukaryotic cells
What are Animal and plant cells?
Lets water and other nutrients in and out of cell. The ""bodyguard."
What is the cell membrane?
What theory did the scientists Schleiden, Schwann, and Hooke create?
What is the cell theory?
Jelly-like filling; holds everything together and provides nutrients to the cell
What is the cytoplasm?
Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus; Prokaryotic cells do not.
How are eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells different?
Cell membrane, cytoplasm, DNA, ribosomes
What four structures are found in ALL cells (bacteria, plant and animal)?
Prokaryotic. Bacteria is unicellular, lacks a nucleus, and is smaller than plant and animal cells.
Is a bacteria cell prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
The energy processor (powerhouse of the cell).
What is the Mitochondria?
An example of a unicellular organism.
What are Bacteria?
Free floating in the cytoplasm.
Where is the DNA in a bacteria cell?
The substance/object in which Robert Hooke first saw cells.
What is a cork?