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Cells
Animal Cells
Plant Cells
Cell Discovery
Differences
100
An ____________ is a living thing made of the same tiny building blocks. From the smallest organism to the largest, they are all made of cells.
What is an organism?
100
The ___________ is a layer around the outside of the cell. It wraps around the cell similarly to the way our skin wraps around us. It gives the cell its shape.
What is the cell membrane?
100
Plant cells have an additional outer covering around the outside of the cell. This layer is called the ___________. It provides the plant cell with strength and extra support.
What is the cell wall?
100
What scientist coined the term cell?

Robert Hooke

100

The invention of what allowed for the discovery of cells

microscope

200
A __________ is the smallest unit of living things that can carry out the basic processes of life.
What is a cell?
200
____________ are oval, membrane-covered organelles that supply energy for the cell, little power plants.
What are the mitochondria?
200
Plants make their own food in structures inside their cells called _________. They are green structures where the energy from sunlight is used to produce food for the plant.
What are the chloroplast?
200

What scientists said cells come from pre-existing cells?

Rudolf Virchow

200

An outer layer that is only found in plants is called..

Cell Wall

300
A ________, or one-celled, organism is made of a single cell that carries out its life processes.
What is an unicellular cell?
300
The cell membrane is filled with a gel-like liquid called __________. It is made mostly of water.
What is cytoplasm?
300
Chloroplast are green because they contain a chemical called _____________.
What is chlorophyll?
300

What scientist said all plants are made of cells?

Mathias Schleiden

300

How are plant and animal cells different?

Plant cells have a chloroplast 

Cell wall and large central vacuole

400
Plant and animal cells have several basic structures called ___________.
What are organelles?
400
The ___________ is the cell's control center. It contains the master plans for all the cell's activities.
What is the nucleus?
400
Unlike animal cells, plant cells usually have one large central __________. It stores extra water and provides extra support.
What is a vacuole?
400

What scientist said all animals are made of cells?

Theodor Schwann

400
How are the shapes of the cells usually different?
What is the animal cell is rounder and the plant cell is more of a rectangle shape?
500
How is a frog cell similar to the cell of an amoeba? How is a frog cell different than the cell of an amoeba?
What is they both contain cells? What is unicellular cells organisms are made of just one cell while multicellular organisms are made of many cells joined together?
500
The ___________ are membrane-covered structures used for storage. They can store water, food, and wastes. Some animal cells have many small ones, but plant cells have one large one.
What the vacuoles?
500
What are the two organelles that are found in plant cells but not animal cells?
What are the cell wall and chloroplast?
500

List the three parts of cell theory

1. Cells are the basic unit of life

2. All living things are made of cell 

3. Cells come from preexisting cells

500

What do ALL cells share in common?

1. DNA

2. Cell membrane 

3. Ribosomes