Vocabulary
Many-celled organism
Multi-Cellular
The largest most visible part of a cell, which stores the cell's DNA, often times called the control center of the cell
Nucleus
Is movement a characteristic of life?
NO!
How many characteristics of life are there?
9
Something can only be considered dead if it was once _____.
Living
Stores water, food, and waste in the cell.
Vacuole
The jelly-like liquid inside of the cell
Cytoplasm
A student was looking in their microscope at 40X magnification, and the organism took up 1/2 their FOV (Field of View), how big is the organism?
2 mm
The are not made up of just one cell, instead they need multiple plant cells
One-celled organism
Unicellular
Produces proteins for the cell.
Ribosome
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What two main differences between a plant cell and an animal cell?
answers could vary:
-plant cell has a cell wall, animal cell does not
-plant cell has chloroplast, animal cell does not
Paramecium are ______ organisms.
Single celled
Plants produce a-sexually, which means __________.
They duplicate their organelles and then split in two.
An optical instrument used for viewing very small objects
Microscope
Bacteria cells, or cells without a nucleus are called: ______.
Prokaryotic cells
Found in plant cells, this organelle works to convert light energy into sugars to be used by the cell.
Chloroplast
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Any free living thing that can carry out life.
Organism
Cells with a nucleus are called: ________
Eukaryotic
A stiff structure that surrounds the cell membrane in some cells...
Cell Wall
If I am looking through a microscope at 40X, and change my magnification to 100X, does the object under my field of view grow in size?
no, the field of view is getting smaller or more centralized, making it appear bigger, but the object does not grow.
Give all 9 characteristics of life.
-needs energy (food), needs water, grows, reproduces, needs a suitable environment, responds to the environment, exchanges gases, eliminates waste, made up of cells
Membrane-bound structures of a cell that have a specific function
Organelle