Protein Powerhouses
This organelle makes proteins and can be found floating in the cytoplasm or attached to the Rough ER.
What is a ribosome?
This organelle stores water, food, and waste in the cell.
What is the vacuole?
This organelle is known as the “control center” of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This organelle is called the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondrion?
This organelle packages and ships proteins around and out of the cell and is sometimes called the “post office” of the cell.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
This part of the ER is covered with ribosomes and helps make proteins.
What is the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum?
Plant cells have one large one of these, while animal cells have many small ones.
What is a vacuole?
This flexible barrier controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This green organelle uses sunlight to make food in plants.
What is the chloroplast?
The Golgi modifies proteins and packages them into these small sacs.
What are vesicles?
Unlike its rough counterpart, this ER does not have ribosomes and helps make lipids and detoxify the cell.
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum?
This organelle is filled with enzymes that break down waste and old cell parts.
What is the lysosome?
Found only in plant cells, this rigid layer provides structure and protection.
What is the cell wall?
This process happens in mitochondria to turn food into usable energy (ATP).
What is cellular respiration?
When vesicles fuse with the cell membrane to release materials outside, it’s called this.
What is exocytosis?