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This structure surrounds ALL cells and controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is Cell Membrane?
This organelle is called the control center of the cell because it contains the cell's DNA.
What is nucleus?
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell because it produces energy (ATP) for the cell.
What is mitochondria?
This organelle is a system of folded membranes that acts like a highway, transporting materials throughout the cell.
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum?
Name ONE organelle that is found in plant cells but is NOT found in animal cells.
What is chloroplast?
This rigid outer layer provides extra support and protection in plant cells but is NOT found in animal cells.
What is Cell wall?
This small, dense structure found inside the nucleus is responsible for making ribosomes.
What is nuleolus?
This green organelle captures sunlight energy and uses it to make food for the plant through photosynthesis.
What is chloroplast?
This organelle modifies, packages, and ships proteins to their correct destinations, like the cell's post office.
What is Golgi Apparatus/Body?
Animal cells have these small paired organelles near the nucleus that help organize cell division, but plant cells do not.
What is centrioles?
The cell membrane is described as this type of model because its phospholipids and proteins can move around freely.
What is a Fluid mosaic model?
The nuclear envelope has these small openings that allow materials like mRNA to enter and exit the nucleus.
What is nuclear pores?
Mitochondria break down glucose to produce this energy-carrying molecule that all cells use as fuel.
What is ATP?
This type of endoplasmic reticulum has ribosomes attached to its surface and specializes in making proteins.
What is rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Both plant and animal cells contain this jelly-like substance that fills the cell and suspends all the organelles in place.
What is cytoplasm?
The cell wall in plants is mainly made of this strong carbohydrate material that provides structural support.
What is a Cellulose?
Inside the nucleus, DNA wraps around proteins called histones to form this loosely coiled material.
What is a chromatin?
This green pigment found inside chloroplasts is what absorbs sunlight energy during photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This type of endoplasmic reticulum has ribosomes attached to its surface and specializes in making proteins.
What is vesiculus?
Plant cells usually have a rigid rectangular shape instead of a round shape because of this outer structure
What is cellwall?
This term describes the cell membrane's ability to allow only certain substances to pass through while blocking others.
What is Permeable?
Before a cell divides, chromatin condenses and coils tightly into these visible, X-shaped structures.
What is chromosomes?
Both mitochondria and chloroplasts have their own DNA, which supports this theory that they were once independent organisms engulfed by larger cells
What is Endosymbiotic theory?
These small membrane-bound sacs pinch off from the Golgi apparatus to carry materials to different parts of the cell or outside it.
What is vacuole?
This organelle acts as the cell's recycling center, breaking down waste materials, old cell parts, and foreign invaders. It is more prominent in animal cells.
What is lysosome?