Cells
Living things are made of cells and cells can function as individual organisms or the smallest unit in a larger organism. This is known as...
What is cell theory?
This provides the external boundary for a cell.
What is the cell membrane?
A jelly-like substance inside the cell membrane containing proteins and fats that are essential to the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
These scientists worked together to form the basis of cell theory.
Who were Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann?
Putting organisms with similar characteristics into groups.
What is classification?
A group of cells working together.
What is tissue?
The bubble-like storage organelles found in a cell.
What are vacuoles?
Ball-shaped structure containing DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This person developed a system of classification.
Who was Carolus Linnaeus?
The scientific name of an organism uses these two names.
What are genus and species?
What is meiosis?
The parts of a cell that act like engines, breaking down food and releasing energy.
What are mitochondria?
A process that produces two new daughter cells containing identical DNA to the parent cell.
What is mitosis?
List the following in order from smallest to greatest: organs, tissues, cells, systems.
What are cells, tissues, organs, and systems.
Name some useful kinds of bacteria.
What are yeast and probiotics found in yogurt?
Organisms grow and replace cells through this process.
What is mitosis?
Plants use this green pigmented substance to absorb energy from sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
A process that produces 4 daughter cells with half the chromosomes of the parent cell.
What is meiosis?
Name the six kingdoms.
What are Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
This words describes how many cells organisms in the Plantae kingdom (plants) have.
What is multicellular?
The first person to observe and name cells.
Who was Robert Hooke?
The part of a plant cell provides support.
What is the cell wall?
Kingdoms that are unicellular and may live in colonies.
What are kingdoms Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, and Protista?
Characteristics of living things.
What are living things grow and develop, living things reproduce, living things respond to their environments, living things use energy, and living things are made of cells?
List the scientific names of classification in order from largest to smallest.
What are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?