Cell Theory
The first part of cell theory states that the cell is this, in all living things.
What is the building block?
These organelles are known as the brain of the cell, having DNA inside of it; sometimes regarded as the City Hall of a cell.
What is Nucleus?
This scientist is credited with creating one of the first microscopes, and the scientist credited on creating the word cell.
Who was Robert Hooke?
What is Cell Membrane?
This is the largest cell currently known.
All organisms are made up of at least one of these.
What are Cells?
This organelle produces energy to give to the cell; often regarded as the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the Mitochondria?
This scientist was a botanist who discovered plants are made of cells, and also stated were responsible for growth using its nucleus.
Who was Matthias Schleiden?
When an organism needs to grow bigger, it must make more of these.
What are Cells?
These types of cells are one of the few that do not have a nucleus!
What are red blood cells?
This is the third part of cell theory, stating that similar cells from similar species are essentially ___ ____ in chemical composition.
Daily Double!
This organelle stores water and ingested food in a fluid sack and helps to remove waste from the cell; often regarded as the storage unit of a cell.
What are Vacuoles?
This scientist found the nucleus in 1831, and published a paper over it in 1833.
Who was Robert Brown?
This organelle, which is only found in plant cells, makes food by their own using solar energy; nutrient intake.
What are Chloroplasts?
The human body is made up of about this many cells.
What is 37,000,000 cells.
All cells come from the _____ of pre-existing cells.
What is Division?
This organelle receives proteins from ribosomes, prepares them, and then transports them across the cell; often regarded as the post office.
What is Golgi Apparatus/Golgi Bodies?
In 1673, this scientist was the first scientist to see a living organism through a microscope whilst studying pond water.
Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
The body of a multicellular organism can do this by itself, by using cell division to produce more cells.
What is repair?
About this many cells die in a minute in our bodies!
What is 300 million cells?
This is the energy flow that occurs with in cells.
What is Metabolism?
These organelles are passageways that transport proteins and materials across the cell; often regarded as the streets of the cell.
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?
Aristotle proposed this theory, which is the idea that life can arise from nonliving matter, which has later proved wrong.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
During aerobic cellular ________, oxygen reacts with glucose sugar to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy.
What is respiration?
These type of cells are 95% of the cells in our body.
What are Bacterial Cells?