General Vocabulary
Microscopes
Cells in Bodies
Bodies inside Cells
Scientists and Discovery
100
This is a widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things.
What is Cell Theory?
100
The part of the Microscope that magnifies the image.
What is the Lens?
100
This theory states that all living things are made from cells.
What is Cell Theory?
100
This is the "brain" of a cell.
What is the Nucleus?
100
In 1663, Robert Hooke named these, after observing "small rooms" in magnified cork.
What are Cells?
200
These tiny structures inside cells each carry out specific functions for the cell.
What are Organelles?
200
These Microscopes use electrons instead of light to produce a magnified image.
What are Electron Microscopes?
200
New cells are formed from these.
What are existing Cells?
200
These organelles produce proteins for the cell.
What are Ribosomes?
200
In 1838, Matthias Schleiden concluded this about plants.
What is all plants are made of cells?
300
Found in plant cells these tiny green structures capture energy from sunlight and change it into energy for the cell.
What are Chloroplasts?
300
This Microscope has TWO lenses that magnify the image together.
What is a Compound Microscope?
300
In this kind of organism cells are organized into tissues, organs, and organ systems.
What is a Multicellular Organism?
300
This is a rigid outer layer that protects plant cells.
What is the Cell Wall?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!! She is the best science teacher at MSMS.
Who is Mrs. Lowry?
400
Nicknamed "powerhouses" these organelles convert energy stored in food into energy that cells can use.
What are Mitochondria?
400
Better of this comes with better magnification, and it is the degree to which two separate structures that are close together can be distinguished.
What is Resolution?
400
This organism consists of only a single cell.
What is a Unicellular Organism?
400
Most of the cell consists of this thick, clear, gel-like fluid.
What is the Cytoplasm?
400
"All cells come from cells," wrote this Scientist.
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
500
These form the parts of an organism and carry out all of its functions.
What are Cells?
500
This Dutch businessman was the first to see living cells through a microscope around 1674.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
500
This cell carries oxygen to other cells.
What is a Red Blood Cell?
500
This organelle looks like a large maze, and helps attached ribosomes create proteins.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
500
This scientist concluded that all animals are made of cells.
Who is Theodor Schwann?
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