Cells
What is the smallest unit of life?
What is the function of the nucleus in a cell?
What directs all cell activities and contains DNA?
Who is the scientist credited with discovering cells?
Who is Robert Hooke?
What organelle in plant cells uses light energy to make food?
What is a chloroplast?
What is the main role of the cell membrane in animal cells?
What protects the inside of the cell from the environment?
According to cell theory, what do all living things have in common?
They are made of one or more cells.
What organelle is responsible for photosynthesis in plant cells?
What is a chloroplast?
What did Hooke observe under the microscope that led to the discovery of cells?
What is cork?
What is the main sugar produced by plants during photosynthesis?
What is glucose?
What is the primary function of flagella and cilia in animal cells?
What helps with movement?
What do new cells come from?
What are preexisting cells?
Name the stiff structure outside the cell membrane found in plant cells.
What is the cell wall?
Which organelle makes up almost 80% of a the cells volume in a plant cell, hold fluids, lipids and nutrients and is essential to plant life?
Central vacuole
What structure gives plants their rigidity?
What is the cell wall?
What macromolecule is made of long chains of amino acids and is crucial for animal structure and function?
What is a protein?
What is the protective outer layer of a cell called?
What is the cell membrane?
What is the jelly-like fluid inside a cell called?
What is cytoplasm?
What term did Hooke use to describe the small boxes he saw in cork?
What are cells?
What pigment in chloroplasts is responsible for capturing light energy?
What is chlorophyll?
How do animal cells differ from plant cells in terms of structure?
They lack a cell wall and chloroplasts.
What is the term for a network of threadlike proteins inside a cell?
What is the cytoskeleton?
What is an organelle?
What is a membrane-bound cell structure with a specialized function?
How did Hooke's discoveries contribute to the development of cell theory?
He helped establish that living things are made of cells.
What process do plants use to convert sunlight into chemical energy?
What is photosynthesis?
Animals
What is the function of lipids in animal cells?
What stores energy and forms cell membranes?