What am I?
Plant or animal cell?
Definitions
True or False
Only for the brave!
100

In a plant cell, I am the stiff layer that surrounds the cell.

Cell Wall

100
I have a chloroplast.
plant cell
100

Tiny structures inside a cell which carry out specific functions.

organelles

100

Cells are the building blocks of all living things.

True

100

Give two (2) functions of prokaryotes.

±decomposers

±agents of fermentation

±play important roles in digestive systems

±involved in many nutrient cycles

±diverse array of metabolic functions.

200
I control what substances come into and out of the cell.
Cell membrane
200
I contain a very large vacuole.
plant cell
200

A barrier located just inside all cells.

Cell membrane

200

The idea that life could spring from nonliving matter is called spontaneous generation.

true

200

Give two (2) cell parts that are found in animal cell BUT NOT in plant cell.

Centrosome

Centriole

Cytoskeleton

Lysosome

300
I am mighty! I am known as the "powerhouse" of the cell.
mitochondria
300
I contain lysomsomes.
animal cell
300

The membrane surrounding the nucleus.

nuclear envelope/or nuclear membrane

300
In plant and animal cells the control center is the golgi body.
False, it is the nucleus.
300
What invention made it possible for people to discover and learn about cells?
The microscope.
400
I function as a factory to produce proteins.
Ribosome
400
I have a cell wall.
plant cell.
400

Site of ribosome synthesis

Nucleolus

400

A size of a microtubule is 8nm.

False

400

A method used in biotechnology to create bacteria capable of exhibiting new set of genes. 

Transduction

500
I am a passageway that carries proteins and other materials from one part of the cell to another.
ER/ endoplasmic reticulum
500
Think photosynthesis!
plant cells.
500

Small, round structures containing chemicals that break down certain materials in the cell.

lysosomes

500

The presence of cristae enhance the productivity of cellular respiration, which is found in the intermembrane space. 

False

500

Size of a typical prokaryote cell?

Size of a typical eukaryotic cell?

1 - 10um long

10 - 100um long