POV: You're an Organelle (Parts of the Cell)
This jelly-like fluid is where all the organelles are suspended and many chemical reactions take place.
Answer: What is the cytoplasm?
During this stage, the cell carries out its normal activities, grows, and copies its DNA to prepare for cell division.
Answer: What is interphase?
Very smooth and round, these animal cells are specialized to carry oxygen in the blood vessels.
Answer: What are red blood cells?
Cancer is a group of diseases resulting from a change in DNA that causes cells to grow and do this out of control.
Answer: What is divide?
Cell division allows organisms to reproduce, repair damage, and do this.
Answer: What is grow?
This organelle makes energy for the cell using cellular respiration.
Answer: What is the mitochondria?
During Metaphase, chromosomes align along this part of the cell.
Answer: What is the middle (or equator)?
These plant cells contain many chloroplasts, are mainly found in leaves, and perform photosynthesis.
Answer: What are photosynthetic cells?
This type of tumour is not cancerous and doesn't affect surrounding tissue other than crowding them.
Answer: What is a benign tumour?
In this type of reproduction, only one parent is required, making the offspring genetically identical to the parent.
Answer: What is asexual reproduction?
Providing support and physical protection, this rigid structure made of cellulose belongs to plant cells only.
Answer: What is the cell wall?
In Anaphase, these exact copies of each other separate and are pulled toward either end of the cell.
Answer: What are sister chromatids?
Featuring an amorphous shape, these cells function by engulfing bacteria and viruses.
Answer: What are white blood cells?
Environmental factors known to cause cancer, such as the over 70 found in cigarette smoke, are called this.
Answer: What are carcinogens?
During sexual reproduction, the human egg and sperm combine to form this cell containing 46 chromosomes.
Answer: What is a zygote?
This network of tubes extending from the nucleus is covered in ribosomes and synthesizes proteins.
Answer: What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough ER)?
In the final stage called cytokinesis, the cell membrane does this in the middle to separate into two new daughter cells.
Answer: What is "pinches"?
These hollow tube-like plant cells are specialized to transport water and minerals.
Answer: What are xylem cells?
Cancerous cells that break away and start a secondary tumour somewhere else in the body are known as this.
Answer: What are metastatic cells?
Cells must divide instead of simply growing massive because large cells would cause this process—the movement of chemicals from high to low concentration—to happen too slowly.
Answer: What is diffusion?
Bacteria and archaea belong to this category of simple, single-celled organisms because they do not have a complex nucleus.
Answer: What are prokaryotic cells?
During the early stages of the cell cycle, DNA is kept in this long, unorganized structure before condensing into chromosomes.
Answer: What is chromatin?
Because they use a lot of energy to stretch like rubber bands and move our bones, muscle cells have a massive amount of this specific organelle.
Answer: What are mitochondria?
his specific cancer treatment works by destroying rapidly dividing cells in the body.
Answer: What is chemotherapy?
Because they must combine to form a full set of 46, a human egg and sperm cell each carry exactly this many chromosomes.
Answer: What is 23?