Characteristics of Cells
The building blocks of life.
What are cells?
An organelle that performs cellular respiration.
What is mitochondria?
A group of cells with similar jobs.
What is tissue?
An organelle that ships materials around the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
The person who first saw cells through a microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
Any living thing.
What are organisms?
An organelle that makes protein.
What are ribosomes?
The job or purpose of an object.
What is a function?
The organelle that converts sunlight to energy.
What are chloroplasts?
True or False: Matthias Schleiden said plants are not made of cells.
What is false?
An organism with only one cell.
What are unicellular organisms?
An organelle that packs materials.
What is the golgi complex?
A group of organs with similar jobs.
What is the organ system?
The organelle that breaks down the cell's waste and cleans the cell.
What are lysosomes?
True or False: Theodor Schwann said animal tissues are made of cells.
What is true?
The genetic material that tells a cell what to do.
What is DNA?
An organelle that supports the plant cell.
What is the cell wall?
The tissue that protects the animal's skin.
What is the epithelial tissue?
It controls what goes in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
True or false:
Rudolf Virchow said cells do not form from other cells.
What is false?
A cell without a nucleus.
What are prokaryotic cells?
The organelle that stores materials in plant cells.
What is the large central vacuole?
Cells » Tissues » Organs » Organ System » Organism
What are the levels of cellular organization?
It makes ribosomes
What is the nucleolus?
True or False:
Schwann said cells are the basic unit of life.
What is true?