Tiny Things
The larger of a human red blood cell and a bacterium.
What is a human red blood cell?
A pure substance made up of only one type of atom
What is an element?
This cell is smaller and simpler, without a nucleus
What is a Prokaryote?
This is the home of the DNA and the control center of the cell.
What is the Nucleus?
The 3 subatomic particles that make up all atoms
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
A pure substance made up of 2 or more types of atoms, chemically bonded together
What is a compound?
A molecule made of Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio
What is a Carbohydrate?
Eukaryotic Cells contain these types of "little organs"
What are membrane-bound organelles?
This cell structure is present in most prokaryotic and some eukaryotic cells, providing additional support and protection
What is a cell wall?
The smallest Element
What is Hydrogen?
What is the number of protons, or atomic number
This term describes the shape of a DNA molecule
What is a double helix?
The DNA in this type of cell is typically packaged into Chromosomes
What are Eukaryotic Cells?
This organelle is responsible for receiving, sorting, packaging, and sending out molecules.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The state of matter in which a substance takes the shape of its container (but does not necessarily fill it)
What is liquid?
This physical feature of water molecules is the reason it exhibits many of its unique properties
What is "Water is a polar molecule"
This type of organic molecule makes up the cell membrane (Double points if you are specific and can describe the structure!)
What is a lipid, or phospholipid?
Double points - phospholipid bilayer / 2 layers of phospholipids
These cells have cell walls and Chloroplasts
What are Plant Cells?
This organelle is often compared to a highway system, due to its role in transporting nutrients
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The tool with which you can see tiny things as small as 1 micro-meter, but not smaller (specific - two words)
What is an optical microscope? (or light microscope)
The reason that ice floats
What is "ice is less dense than liquid water"
These are the building blocks of protiens
What are Amino Acids?
These flexible, round-ish cells have lysosomes and several smaller vacuoles, rather than one large vacuole.
All cells contain these non-membrane-bound organelles, which read DNA and make protiens
What are Ribosomes?