Cell Basics
Cells are the basic unit of ____ and _____.
What is Life and Structure?
The "control center" of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
Plant cells have this rigid outer layer, animal cells do not.
What is the cell wall?
This organelle acts like the "mailroom", packaging and shipping proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus/body?
True or False - All cells come from preexisting cells?
True
What tool do we use to see cells?
What is a microscope?
The organelle that produces energy the "powerhouse".
What is the mitochondria?
Which organelle is in plant cells but not in animal cells, used for photosynthesis?
What is the chloroplast?
Which organelle helps break down waste and old cell parts?
What is the lysosome?
Which scientist first said plants are made up of cells?
Who is Matthias Schleiden?
Who is known for discovering cells when looking at a cork?
Who is Robert Hooke?
Which organelle captures sunlight in plant cells?
What is the chloroplast?
Which type of vacuole is larger - plant or animal cell?
What is the plant cell?
The jelly like substance that holds all organelles in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
Which scientist first said animals are made up of cells?
Who is Theodor Schwann?
What part of the cell controls what enters and leaves?
What is the cell membrane?
What structure stores water, food, and waste?
What is the vacuole?
Which type of cell is usually rounder in shape, plant or animal cell?
What is animal cell?
Which organelle is the site of photosynthesis?
What is a chloroplast?
Who concluded that cells come from pre existing cells?
Who is Rudolf Virchow?
Which type of cell has no nucleus: prokaryote or eukaryote?
What is prokaryote?
What makes proteins in the cell?
What are ribosomes?
Both plant and animal cells share these three organelles: _______,_______, and ______.
What are nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm?
What is mitochondria?
What's the name of the theory that explains the cell as the basic unit of life?
What is cell theory?