This organelle in a plant cell helps to break down food and worn out cell parts.
What is a lysosome.
100
What is the ridged outer layer of a plant cell called?
What is a cell wall.
100
The cells nucleus contains____________, a material that stores coded information about how an organism will grow and develop.
What is DNA?
100
The diffusion of water is called...?
What is osmosis.
100
The smallest unit that can carry out the activities of life are?
What are cells?
200
This is the gel like fluid where organelles are found.
What is the cytoplasm?
200
What plant organelle captures light from the sun and uses it to create food or energy for the plant?
What is a chloroplast?
200
Why do cells have to be small?
What is so that essential nutrients, wastes, oxygen, food, etc. can quickly travel from one part of the cell to the other.
200
What cell organelle controls the environment inside the call allowing some particles to diffuse it and others not.
What is cell membrane?
200
Because they are so small scientists need this instrument to see them?
What is a microscope.
300
This is the powerhouse of the cell which produces greats amount of energy.
What is the mitochondria.
300
What organelle in a plant is much larger than the one found in an animal?
What is a vacuole?
300
In the second stage of mitosis the chromatin become short, compact_____________ and become visible.
What are chromosomes?
300
True or false. It requires a lot of energy to diffuse particles.
What is false? It happens automatically without any effort or energy.
300
Who was the first person to describe cells?
Who is Robert Hooke.
400
This is the control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus.
400
These are found stacked inside of Chloroplasts and what gives plants their green pigment.
What is chlorophyll?
400
Give two reasons why mitosis is important?
What is it used for growing, healing, and replacing dead cells in the body.
400
Diffusion or Osmosis- Oxygen Molecules move from the air sacs in the lungs across the cell membranes into the blood.
What is diffusion?
400
Where did the word cell come from?
What is jail or prison cells.
500
This small dot-looking organelle assembles amino acids into proteins.
What are the ribosomes?
500
You will not find as many of these hairlike appendages on plant cells like you would on some animal cells.
What is cilia?
500
In what stage of mitosis do the chromosomes start to pull away and form two new cells.
What is the third stage.
500
True or false. Diffusion will make raisins plump up when you put them in a glass of water.
What is false? The raisins will plump up because of osmosis.
500
According to cell theory:
1) All _______things are made of one or more cells.
2) _______are the basic units of living things.
3) All cells come from ____________.
What is
1) All _living______things are made of one or more cells.
2) _Cells______are the basic units of living things.
3) All cells come from _other cells___________.