Livin’ on a Cell
This theory states that all living things are made of cells.
What is the Cell Theory?
These cells have no nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
This green organelle allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
What is the chloroplast?
This organelle is the “control center” of the cell, containing DNA.
What is the Nucleus?
Known as the “powerhouse of the cell,” it produces energy in the form of ATP.
What is the Mitochondrion?
Cells come only from these.
What are pre-existing cells?
Bacteria are examples of this type of cell.
What are prokaryotic cells?
This rigid structure surrounds plant cells but not animal cells.
What is the cell wall?
These small structures make proteins, sometimes floating freely or attached to the ER.
What are Ribosomes?
This rigid layer surrounds plant cells but not animal cells.
What is the Cell Wall?
This characteristic of life means organisms respond to changes in their surroundings.
What is response to stimuli?
These cells have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.
What are eukaryotes?
Plant cells have one large one of these, while animal cells have many small ones.
What is a vacuole?
This organelle packages and ships proteins like a post office.
What is the Golgi Apparatus (or Golgi Body)?
This organelle is a network of folded membranes that helps make and transport proteins and lipids.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
All living things use this process to create offspring and continue their species.
What is reproduction?
This is the main difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What is the presence of a nucleus or membrane-bound organelles?
Unlike plant cells, animal cells have these organelles that help with cell division.
What are centrioles?
This organelle stores water, food, and waste; it is much larger in plant cells than in animal cells.
What is the Vacuole?
This organelle digests and breaks down waste and old cell parts.
What is the Lysosome?
These are the three main statements of the Cell Theory.
What are (1) all living things are made of cells, (2) cells are the basic unit of life, and (3) all cells come from pre-existing cells?
Plants, animals, fungi, and protists are made of this type of cell.
What are eukaryotic cells?
The main structural difference between plant and animal cells is that plants have these two extra features.
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
This jelly-like fluid inside the cell holds organelles in place.
What is the Cytoplasm?
This outer boundary of the cell controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the Cell Membrane?