Animal Cells
The powerhouse of the cell that converts sugar & oxygen into energy.
What is the mitochondria?
The rigid outer layer of the plant cell.
What is the cell wall?
Name two things that homeostasis helps regulate in the body.
What are....
temperature, blood pressure, blood pH, water, salt, oxygen, blood sugar, etc.
The invention that played a pivotal role in the development of the cell theory.
What is the microscope?
The basic building block of life.
What is the cell?
The control center of the cell where DNA is stored.
What is the nuclues?
Captures sunlight energy for photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
What is internal?
The first tenet of the cell theory.
Parts of a cell designed for a specific function (what we call the cell parts).
What is an organelle?
The protective layer that controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This is large and central in plant cells.
What is the central vacuole?
Disease or even death can result from this.
The second tenet of the cell theory.
What is cells are the basic unit of structure and function?
What is cork?
The jelly-like substance found throughout the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
The part of the plant where chloroplasts are found.
The cell part that plays a key role in homeostasis.
What is the cell membrane?
What is the third tenet of the cell theory?
What is all cells are made from pre-existing cells?
What are the cell wall, central vacuole, and chloroplast?
These are smaller in animal cells and store water and other materials for the cell.
What is a vacuole?
What is chlorophyll?
Give a six word summary for homeostasis.
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The scientist that discovered cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
He discovered all animals are made of cells; known for animalcules.
Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek?