Cell Basics
The jelly-like substance that fills the cell.
What is cytoplasm?
The “control center” of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
The organelle known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondrion?
The organelle that makes proteins.
What is the ribosome?
Small structures that contain digestive enzymes to break down waste.
What are lysosomes?
The boundary that controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The structure inside the nucleus that makes ribosomes.
What is the nucleolus?
The type of energy molecule that cells use to power nearly all cellular processes.
What is ATP?
The organelle that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Organelles that help divide the cell during cell division.
What are centrioles?
Organelles found only in plant cells that give them rigidity.
What is the cell wall?
These structures are found attached to the rough endoplasmic reticulum, and are scattered throughout the cytoplasm of the cell.
What are ribosomes?
Organelles in plant cells that capture sunlight to make food.
What are chloroplasts?
The system of folded membranes where proteins and lipids are made.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)?
Hair-like structures that help move cells or fluids.
What are cilia?
The structure in a plant cell that stores water, nutrients, and waste.
What is the vacuole?
How cells make copies of themselves and pass on DNA.
What is cell division?
The process by which plants get energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
ER with ribosomes attached is called ______.
What is rough ER?
The structure that gives cells their shape, act as the cells skeleton.
What is cytoskeleton?
The term for cells that have a nucleus.
What is eukaryotic?
This is the molecule that carries genetic instructions.
What is DNA?
The process by which cells get energy from food.
What is cellular respiration?
ER without ribosomes, responsible for making lipids and detoxifying chemicals.
What is smooth ER?
Small, membrane-bound sacs that transport materials around the cell.
What are vesicles?