Parts of a Cell
Microbes & Microscopes
Cellular Characteristics
Big Ideas in Cell Biology
Food & Energy
100

This is the part of a plant that contains the cell's genetic material.

What is the nucleus?

100

This invention was essential to the discovery of cells.

What is a microscope?

100

All living things are made of these.

What are cells?

100

The theory that infectious diseases are caused by microbes.

What is the Germ Theory of Disease?

100
A process that humans have in common with plants to release energy from the carbon bonds in sugar.

What is cellular respiration?

200

This is the part of a cell that controls the flow of material into and out of the cell.

What is the cell membrane?

200

The tubular part of a microscope you look through.

What is the eyepiece?

200

The part of this list NOT made of cells:

Protists

Bacteria

Viruses

What is a virus?

200

Multiple cells of the same type assembled together to perform the same function.

What is tissue?

200

A waste product of cellular respiration.

What is carbon dioxide (or water)?

300

In plant cells, this organelle contains the chlorophyll required for photosynthesis.

What is the chloroplast?

300

The different structures cells, such as a neurons and red blood cells, affect this.

What is their function (or job?).

300

In addition to the agent and the host, this factor(s) completes the epidemiological triad.

What are environmental factors?

300

In addition to energy, food breakdown provides this for the cell.

What is matter?

400

This 'mighty' organelle performs cellular respiration.

What are the mitochondria?

400

The magnification of a 10X objective lens used in conjunction with a 10X eyepiece.

What is 100X?

400

The part of this list that is NOT multicellular:

Animals

Plants

Bacteria

What are bacteria?

400

Longer life, reduced predation, and specialization are all benefits of this.

What is multicellularity?

400

This type of organism consumes other organisms, such as producers, to acquire food.

What is a consumer?

500

This part of a plant cell provides a rigid structure to support the shape of the cell.

What is the cell wall?

500

This part of a microscope can constrict or dilate to control the amount of light passing through the specimen.

What is the diaphragm?

500

This term includes all the structures that are like the organs on a cellular level.

What are organelles?

500

These three components are required for photosynthesis.

What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?

500

These macromolecules are made up of sugar subunits.

What are carbohydrates?

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