Vocabulary
This is a structure inside a cell that does a specific job.
What is an organelle?
A child will show this trait if she inherits a blue-eye gene (recessive) from mom and a brown-eye gene (dominant) from Dad.
A group of cells working together to perform a specific job is called a _______.
What is a tissue?
The liquid (jelly-like) part of the cell.
What is cytosol?
Plant and animal cells both have these, however, the plant cell's is much larger.
What is a vacuole?
This is the label given to an organism such as bacteria and protist, that is made up of 1 cell.
What is unicellular?
This person discovered the patterns of heredity in pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Chromosomes are made up of these.
What are genes?
This enzyme filled organelle breaks down food particles and waste in the cell.
What is a lysosome?
Plant and animal cells are shaped differently. Plant cells are this shape.
What is rectangular or square?
This is a feature or characteristic.
What is a trait?
This child inherits a straight hair gene from each parent. The child will show this trait.
What is straight hair?
These are the types of cells that do not have a nucleus.
What are bacteria and red blood cells?
This is the transportation system of the cell.
What is endoplasmic reticulum?
Animal cells do not have these organelles. Plant cells have them and they are important for photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
This term is given to everything between the nucleus and cell membrane including the organelles.
What is cytoplasm?
Learning to cook well is a learned behavior not an inherited trait. With practice your friend can become a good chef.
This controls what comes in and out of the cell.
What is a cell membrane.
This organelle is the "powerhouse" of the cell. It makes the energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
Plant cells contain this additional boundary that provides structure to the plant.
What is a cell wall?
The organelle that contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
Explain the relationship between chromosomes, DNA and genes.
DNA is a chemical that makes up chromosomes. Chromosomes carry information about traits. The chromosomes are made up of the genes.
These are the three parts of the cell theory.
What is:
1. All organisms are made of cells
2. The cell is the basic unit of life.
3. All cells come from other cells.
This organelle makes the protein for the cell.
What is the ribosomes?
Name 2 differences between a plant and animal cell. Explain the function of each.
What is cell wall and chloroplasts. The cell wall provides structure and the chloroplasts provides food for the plant through photosynthesis.