Structure of a Cell
The smallest functional unit of life.
What is a cell?
A jellylike fluid inside the cell.
What is a cytoplasm?
This Russian scientist predicted that scientists would eventually find a network of tubes that acted as support structures, holding the cell in the shape that it needed to be.
Who is Nikolai Koltsov?
This is involved in the process of moving things around the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
Plants make their own own food through this process.
What is photosynthesis?
Cells that do not have a nucleus.
What are prokaryotic cells?
A medicine designed to kill microorganisms.
What is an antibiotic?
A German scientist that first experimented with different stains while examining cells. With one stain he identified tiny grains that formed long chains. He called these grains "bioblasts" and suggested that they were tiny living things inside the cell.
Who is Richard Altmann?
Most cells have lots of these. They are responsible for providing the cell with most of the energy that it needs.
What is mitochondria?
The chemical used to capture energy from light.
What is chlorophyll?
Cells that have a nucleus.
What are eukaryotic cells?
All living things are made up of one or more cells, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.
What is cell theory?
Italian scientist experimented with a lot of stains and with one stain noticed a new structure inside the cell.
Who is Camilla Golgi?
The smallest structure in the cell.
What is a ribosome?
Something that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not -- surrounds the outside of the cell.
What is a cell wall?
What is 30-40 trillion cells?
Many illnesses are caused by the actions of microorganisms in the body.
What is Germ Theory of Disease?
French scientist that discovered microscopic organisms were responsible for many processes that were common, but not well understood.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
An organelle that holds lots of chemicals used to break down other chemicals.
What is a lysosome?
An organelle that is found in plant cells, but not found in animal cells.
What is the central vacuole?
An organelle in the cell which holds most of its DNA.
What is the nucleus?
An organ in the body that releases useful chemicals into the body.
What is a gland?
German scientist found that if he mixed beef broth with gelatin, he made a solid culture medium that was easy to handle and grew populations of bacteria really well.
Who is Robert Koch?
An organelle crucial for cell division and structure.
What are centrosomes?
What is a cell wall?