Cell Basics
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
his organelle controls the cell’s activities.
What is the nucleus?
This structure is found in plant cells but NOT animal cells and provides support.
What is the cell wall?
This process allows materials to move in and out of the cell.
What is transport?
All living things are made of this.
What are cells?
This is the jelly-like substance inside the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
These organelles make proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This organelle is only in plant cells and helps make food.
What are chloroplasts?
This process uses energy to move materials against the concentration gradient.
What is active transport?
Cells come from this.
What are pre-existing cells?
This structure controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondria?
This structure stores water and nutrients and is larger in plant cells.
What is the vacuole?
This process moves water across a membrane.
What is osmosis?
This type of cell does NOT have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Cells with a nucleus are called this.
What are eukaryotic cells?
This organelle packages and ships materials.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This structure helps animal cells maintain shape but is NOT a cell wall.
What is the cytoskeleton?
This process releases energy from food.
What is cellular respiration?
This scientist first observed cells using a microscope.
Who is Robert Hooke?
This type of cell is simpler and smaller, like bacteria.
What is a prokaryotic cell?
This organelle modifies proteins and transports them within the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
Name TWO structures found only in plant cells.
What are cell wall and chloroplasts?
This process uses sunlight to make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
This part of the cell contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?