Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
Proks. vs Euks.
Microscopes
Cell Fun Facts
Challenge
100

These are one of the simplest cells with no nucleus

What are prokaryotes?

100

Eukaryotes all have a membrane-bound one of these where their genetic material is found

What is a nucleus?

100

Both cell types contain this structure that surrounds the cell

What is the cell/plasma membrane?

100

The microscope most commonly used in classrooms

What is the compound light microscope?

100

What is the "powerhouse" of the cell?

What is the mitochondria?

100

The the two major parts of each cell

What is the nucleus and the cytoplasm?

200

The DNA of prokaryotic cells is found here 

What is the cytoplasm/the nucleoid region?

200

The nucleus is surrounded by this in eukaryotes

What is the nuclear envelope?

200

Plants and Fungi share this organelle with bacteria

What is a cell wall?

200

The microscope used for viewing 3D images of the surface of an object

What is a scanning electron microscope?

200

The jellylike substance that fills the cell

What is the cytoplasm?

200

The meaning of the word "organelle"

What is "little organs"?

300

The two types of organisms that are prokaryotic 

What are bacteria and archaea?

300

The way in which eukaryotes reproduce

What is sexually or asexually (mitosis/meiosis)?

300

The main difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

What is the presence of the nucleus?

300
Electron microscopes are only able to view this kind of specimen because they are used in a vacuum

What are dead objects?

300

The process of cells dividing

What is mitosis?

300

The level of organization made up of many tissues

What is an organ?

400

The shape of DNA in prokaryotes

What is circular?

400

These are small structures inside cells that perform specific jobs

What are organelles?

400

The characteristic of living things that both cell types share that involves maintaining a stable internal environment

What is maintaining homeostasis?

400

This microscope is best for viewing larger, solid specimens, like insects

What is a dissecting microscope?

400

The rigid layer that give plant and fungi cells their structure

What is the cell wall?

400

Humans are more evolutionarily related to these than they are related to plants

What are fungi?

500

The way in which bacteria reproduce

What is binary fission or asexually?
500

This organelle converts food into energy for the cell

What is the mitochondria?

500

Prokaryotic cells are usually always this and able to live/survive on their own

What is unicellular?

500

The microscope used to see the inside of cells at extremely high magnificaiton

What is a transmission electron microscope?

500

The substance that Robert Hooke first observed under a microscope to discover cells

What is a thin slice of cork?

500

An example of eukaryotic specialization

What are bone cells (structure), muscle cells (movement), and/or brain cells (communication), etc.

600

The first kind of photosynthetic prokaryotes that made life possible on Earth

What are cyanobacteria?

600

A type of eukaryote that can survive as a single cell

What are protists?

600

The type of cell that evolved first

What are prokaryotes?

600

The Father of Microbiology who saw "animalcules" under an early microscope

Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?

600

The structures that make proteins in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells 

What are ribosomes?

600

The macromolecule that makes up a flagela

What are proteins?

700

A classification of prokaryotes that live in highly acidic environments

What are extremophiles?

700

The four types of eukaryotic cells

What are plant cells, animal cells, protists, and fungi?

700

Prokaryotes have a simple one and eukaryotes have a complex one, made up of microfilaments and microtubules

What is the cytoskeleton?

700

The two types of radiation used in biology microscopes

What are light and electron beams?

700

The condensed form of DNA

What are chromosomes?

700

The year that Ms. Q graduated from OLLA

What is 2016?

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