Cell Theory
Microscopes
Cell Trivia
Cell Organelles
Working Together
100
Around 1590 this instrument was invented to make very small objects look larger.
What is a microscope?
100
This can be used to measure the size of the circular field in millimeters as you see it through the microscope.
What is a metric ruler?
100
In living things cells are the basic units of these two things.
What are structure and function?
100
This organelle controls which substances pass into and out of a cell.
What is a cell membrane?
100
This kind of organism is made of only one cell.
What is unicellular?
200
This English scientist built his own microscopes and made drawings of what he saw when he look at dead oak tree bark.
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
The degree to which two separate structures, that are close together, can be distinguished?
What is resolution?
200
A green structure in a plant cell, these capture energy from sunlight.
What is a chloroplasts?
200
This organelle is used for structure in plant cells.
What is a cell wall?
200
This term describes both plants and animals and means "made of many cells".
What is multicellular?
300
All living things are different, but are all made of these.
What are cells?
300
This type of lens has a center that is thicker than it's edge.
What is convex?
300
These sac like organelles contain substances that break down large food particles.
What are Lysosomes?
300
Within the nucleus, these thin strands of material contain information for directing a cell's function.
What is chromatin?
300
The brain is an example of these different kinds of tissues that function together.
What is an organ?
400
This Dutch businessman was the first to see living cells through his microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
400
This kind of microscope was invented in the 1930's and allowed scientists to obtain pictures of objects too small to be seen with light microscopes.
What are electron microscopes?
400
This cell structure, sometimes called a cell warehouse, packages and distributes proteins to other parts of the cell, or outside of the cell.
What is a Golgi apparatus?
400
These small grain shaped organelles, that produce proteins, are made inside of the nucleolus.
What are ribosomes?
400
These similar cells work together to perform a specific function.
What is tissue?
500
Scientists can learn about growth and reproduction because all cells come from these.
What are "other cells"?
500
This type of microscope magnifies an image using two lenses at once.
What is a compound microscope?
500
These water filled sacs float in the cell's cytoplasm and store food needed by the cell.
What is a vacuole?
500
This organelle, which looks like a maze of passageways, helps attached ribosomes make proteins.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
500
A group of organs working together to perform a major function.
What is an organ system?
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