Cell structures
This organelle is the site of ATP synthesis, AKA the power house of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
These paired cylindrical bodies organize a microtubule network during mitosis to form the spindle and asters; they also for the bases of cilia and flagella.
What are Centrioles?
This organelle is the site of lipid and steroid hormone synthesis, lipid metabolism, and drug detoxification.
What is the smooth endoplasmic reticulum?
The period of a cell's life when it carries out its normal metabolic activities and grows. Not technically a phase of Mitosis.
What is Interphase?
These four mechanisms of transport allow small uncharged molecules, such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and fat-soluble molecules to freely pass through the lipid bilayer of the Plasma membrane.
Simple diffusion, Osmosis, Facilitated diffusion, and Active transport.
This Membrane is made of a double layer of lipids embedded with proteins that serves as an external cell barrier and acts in transport of substances into our out of the cell.
What is the Plasma Membrane?
Theses organelles are the site of intracellular digestion. The clean up crew!
What are lysosomes?
This organelle looks like a stack of smooth membrane sacks that package, modify, and segregate proteins for secretion from the cell.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
What is Telophase?
This is the mechanism by which large particles and macromolecules enter cells.
This organelle makes proteins that are secreted from the cell and is externally studded with ribosomes.
What is the Rough endoplasmic reticulum?
These fine filaments are involved in muscle contraction and other types of intracellular movement. They also help form the cell's cytoskeleton.
What are Microfilaments?
This double-membrane structure separates the nucleoplasm from the cytoplasm and regulates passage of substances to and from the nucleus.
What is the nuclear envelope?
The two centrosomes are at opposite poles for the cell and the chromosomes cluster at the midline of the cell with their centromeres aligned at the spindle equator. The second phase of Mitosis.
What is Metaphase?
This type of endocytosis is referred to as "cell eating". The cell engulfs a large particles by forming projecting pseudopods (false feet) around it and enclosing it within a membrane sac called a phagosome.
Surrounded by the nuclear envelope, this is the "control center of the cell" that is responsible for transmitting genetic information and providing the instructions for protein synthesis.
What is the Nucleus?
These organelles are the site of protein synthesis.
What are Ribosomes?
This dense spherical body is the site of ribosome subunit manufacture in the nucleus.
What is the Nucleolus?
Being the first phase of Mitosis, the nuclear envelope breaks up, allowing the spindle to interact with the chromosomes.
What is Prophase?
This type of endocytosis is known as "cell drinking". It is an unselective way of sampling the extracellular fluid.
What is Pinocytosis?
This organelles' enzymes detoxify a number of toxic substances, including hydrogen peroxide.
What are peroxisomes?
These cylindrical structures support the cell and give it shape. They are also involved in intracellular and cellular movements as well as form centrioles.
What are Microtubules?
These protein fibers are the stable cytoskeletal element and resist tension forces acting on the cell.
What are Intermediate filaments?
This is the shortest phase of mitosis, begins when the centromeres of the chromosomes split simultaneously. Chromosomes are then pulled to opposite poles. The third phase of mitosis.
What is Anaphase?
This active transport mechanism moves substances from the cytoplasm to the outside of the cell. It accounts for most secretion processes.
What is Exocytosis?