Cell Structure
This is the chromosome-containing organelle of an eukaryotic cell.
What is the nucleus?
This is an organelle found in plants that absorbs sunlight and uses it to drive synthesis of organic compounds.
What is the chloroplast?
This is made up of a phospholipid bilayer and is the outer boundary of an animal cell.
What is the plasma membrane?
This organelle functions as the site of protein synthesis.
What is the ribosome?
This is a membrane-enclosed sac taking up most of the interior of a plant cell.
What is the central vacuole?
This organelle serves as the site of cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondrion?
This is how DNA exists when the cell is not dividing. It is made up of DNA plus proteins.
What is chromatin?
This is a short cellular appendage specialized for locomotion.
What is cilium?
This is an extensive membranous network in eukaryotic cells that is composed of ribosome-studded and ribosome-free regions.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)?
This organelle is essentially a membrane-enclosed bag of hydrolytic enzymes.
What is the lysosome?
These are used in muscle contraction, cell motility, and for resisting pulling forces in the maintenance of cell shape.
What are microfilaments?
This is where metabolism of carbohydrates and detoxification of drugs occur.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
This organelle consists of stacks of flat membranous sacs that modify, store, and route products of the endoplasmic reticulum.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
These are used as guide tubes for movement of materials, for separation of chromosomes during cell division, and for maintaining the shape of cells by assuming a compression-resisting role.
What are microtubules?
This organelle contains enzymes that transfer hydrogen from various substrates to oxygen, producing and then degrading hydrogen peroxide.
What is the peroxisome?
These help maintain the shape of the cell by bearing tension (resisting pulling forces) and are made up of a diverse family of proteins.
What are intermediate filaments?