The control center of the cell
What is the nucleus?
What is the base and arm?
The first person to use scientific experiments to test spontaneous generation
Who is Francesco Redi?
"water- fearing"
What is hydrophobic?
The waxy layer of a leaf
What is the Cuticle?
Tendency to bend toward the light
What is Phototropism?
The place where energy is created in the cell
Three factors that affect how you are able to see an image under the microscope
What is magnification, contrast, and resolution
Concluded that plants are composed of cells
Who is Schleiden?
The process that uses energy to transport things across the membrane
What is Active Transport?
Glucose and oxygen
What are the products of Photosynthesis?
A growth chemical/hormone in plants
What is Auxin?
Chloroplasts, cell wall, large vacuole
What is found only in plant cells?
Uses electrons to scan the surface of an object that produces a 3D image
What is the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)?
Coined the term "cells"
Who is Robert Hooke?
Solutions that lose water
What are hypotonic solutions?
Cells that are major site of photosynthesis
What are palisade and spongy tissue cells?
Tendency to respond to gravity
What is Gravitropism?
These help break down substances in the cell
What are Lysosomes?
CLSM stands for
What is Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope?
First to describe single-celled micro-organisms
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
Protein passages for movement of ions without the use of energy
What are channel or membrane proteins?
Openings in woody plants for gas transport
What are Lenticels?
Conducted an experiment to test Darwin's idea about plant growth
Who is Boysen-Jensen?
Sorts and repackages molecules into vesicles
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The field of view on a microscope at 40x magnification is 2500 µm. The field of view will be ______ if the magnification is increased to 100x
What is 1000 µm?
Supported the theory of biogenesis
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
Uptake of large particles by the membrane using energy
What is Phagocytosis?
The two processes responsible for uptake of minerals by the roots.
What is facilitated diffusion and active transport?
A plant growing against the force of gravity
What is negative gravitropism?