Characteristics of Living Things
All living things are Made of _______
Cells
What type of cells are we made of (2 key words)?
Eukaryotic, Animal cell
What part of the cell acts as a specific barrier, allowing certain things in and certain things out?
Cell membrane
What type of organism can use photosynthesis?
Plants
We all eat food to get __________ and ___________
Nutrients and Energy
Where is DNA found in a eukaryotic cell?
Nucleus
What part of the cell is like a recycling center?
In what organelle does photosynthesis occur?
Chloroplast
A seagull poops all over your nice picnic! What characteristic of life are they displaying?
Excretes waste
Where is DNA found in a prokaryotic cell?
Cytoplasm
What is the function of the ribosome?
Make proteins
In what organelle does cellular respiration occur?
Mitochondria
List the 2 characteristics:
A spider triggers the hairs of a Venus Flytrap which causes the trap to snap shut. The plant then digests the spider.
React to Stimuli
Nutrients
Name 3 differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
- where DNA is found
- prokaryotic = only unicellular, eukaryotic = uni or multicellular
- prokaryotic is smaller
- eukaryotic is more complex with organelles
A big warehouse in a city is like the ___________ in a cell.
Vacuoles
What materials go into and come out of photosynthesis?
CO2 + H2O + sun energy --> sugar + O2
When water temperatures warm up in summer, salmon start to migrate upstream. As they cool down in the fall, spawning salmon lay and fertilize their eggs.
Reproduce
What 3 organelles are only found in plant cells?
Cell wall, chloroplasts, large central vacuole
Hypothesize what would happen if a cell lost it's Golgi Apparatus?
Proteins wouldn't be able to be sent to the right place, or they would be able to be transported at all.
What materials go into and come out of cellular respiration?
Sugar + O2 --> CO2 + H2O + ATP energy