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cell theory
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100
Plant cells have one large one of these, while animal cells have many smaller ones
What are vacuoles?
100
The place where mitosis begins
What is the nucleus?
100
All _____________________ are made of cells
What are living things?
100
the smallest units of life
What are cells?
100
the structure that provides support for a plant cell (animal cells do not have these)
What is a cell wall?
200
The structure that directs the cell's activities - the "brain" of the cell
What is the nucleus
200
Water travels across a membrane during this process
What is osmosis?
200
All cells come from _____________
What are existing cells?
200
the scientist that invented the first microscope over 345 years ago.
Who is Robert Hooke?
200
In an animal cell, the structure that recycles worn-out cells
What are lysosomes?
300
In a plant cell, the structure that converts sunlight into food
What is the chloroplast?
300
the movement of a substance from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration
What is diffusion?
300
Cells are the _____________________ of life
What is basic unit?
300
materials can move more _____________ in a small cell
What is quickly?
300
this stores information about how an organism will grow and develop
What is DNA?
400
a network of folded membranes that serves as the cell's transportation system
What is the endoplasmic reticulum
400
This allows materials to move in and out of the cells (the border patrol)
What is the cell membrane?
400
This scientific development was most responsible for the development of cell theory.
What is the invention of the microscope?
400
when a new membrane is formed around each nucleus, __________________ is completed
What is mitosis or cell division?
400
the organelle that converts chemical energy of food into a form that the cell can use
What is mitochondria?
500
the part of the cell that converts energy into a form the cell can use
What is mitochondria?
500
the process in which a cell nucleus divides
What is mitosis?
500
To stay alive cells must be able to ___________________ (name 2 processes)
What are obtain nutrients, reproduce, grow or get rid of wastes
500
the coiled structures in a cell nucleus that carry information
What are chromosomes?
500
These begin the process of making proteins (found in the endoplasmic reticulum)
What is the ribosomes?