Cytoplasm & Cytoskeleton
This gooey liquid fills up the inside of the cell and holds all the organelles in place.
What is cytoplasm?
This thin, flexible layer is like a gate that decides what comes in and goes out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This part of the plant cell is in charge of everything and holds the cell's DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This organelle makes energy for the cell so it can do its job.
What is the mitochondria?
These tiny parts of the cell read instructions from DNA and build proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This is like the skeleton of the cell — it gives the cell its shape and helps move things around.
What is the cytoskeleton?
This stiff outer layer protects the plant cell and gives it its box-like shape.
What is the cell wall?
This small dot inside the nucleus makes ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?
This organelle uses sunlight to make food for the plant.
What is the chloroplast?
This type of ER is bumpy because it is covered in ribosomes and helps make proteins.
What is the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER)?
The cytoskeleton is made of two kinds of tiny protein threads called these.
What are microtubules and microfilaments?
The cell wall in plant cells is made out of this tough material.
What is cellulose?
This covering wraps around the nucleus and has tiny holes that let things in and out.
What is the nuclear membrane?
This large organelle acts like a storage tank and holds water, food, and waste for the plant cell.
What is the vacuole?
This type of ER is smooth because it has no ribosomes and helps make fats and clean up waste.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER)?
Most of the chemical reactions that keep the cell alive happen inside this liquid.
What is the cytoplasm?
When a plant does not get enough water, the cell membrane shrinks away from the cell wall and this happens to the plant.
What is wilting?
DNA in the nucleus is wrapped up and organized into these.
What are chromosomes?
This green stuff inside the chloroplast soaks up sunlight so the plant can make food.
What is chlorophyll?
This organelle is like the post office — it packages up proteins and sends them where they need to go.
What is the Golgi complex?
These are the thicker tubes in the cytoskeleton that help give the cell its shape.
What are microtubules?
The cell wall is wrapped around the outside of this part of the plant cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Before a cell can split into two, the nucleus has to make a copy of this.
What is DNA replication?
The mitochondria and chloroplast are special because unlike most organelles they each have their own this.
What is their own DNA?
These tiny bubbles carry proteins from the Golgi complex to other parts of the cell or out of it.
What are vesicles?