Parts of a Cell
Small parts inside of the cell that perform a specific function.
What are organelles?
This structure provides support for the plant cell and is also found in fungi, bacteria and some protista.
What is the cell wall?
The barrier that allows things to pass in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The cell that carries oxygen around the body.
What is an erythrocyte?
Different tissues working together to perform a function.
What is an organ?
The tiny organelle inside a cell that makes proteins.
What is a ribosome?
This stores water and some other materials, and though similar structures can be found in animals, this is much bigger in plants taking up half or more of the volume of the cell.
What is the sap vacuole?
Diffusion of water so that particles in the water are spaced evenly and have equal concentrations.
What is osmosis
Undifferentiated cells.
What are stem cells?
A group of cells working together to perform a function.
What is a tissue?
These break down large food particles into smaller parts. It is like the “stomach” of the cell.
What is the lysosome?
Responsible for photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
A solution that is more concentrated than the cell it surrounds that causes water to leave the cell.
What is hypertonic?
The cells with many hair like projections that move dust and other particles up and out of the lungs.
What is a cilliated epithelial cell.
The digestive system in humans or flowers in plants.
What are organ systems?
The place that the genetic material (DNA) is stored and that gives directions to the rest of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
This powerhouse of the cell converts energy from sugars into energy that the cell can use.
What is the mitochondria?
A solution that has an equal concentration to the cell it surrounds so that water moves in and out evenly.
What is an isotonic solution?
Cells that cause movement in animals by contracting and relaxing.
What are myocytes?
All of the organ systems working together.
What is an organism?
These proteins act as biological catalysts.
What is are enzymes?
This a gel-like sea between the cell membrane and the nucleus that the organelles float in
What is the cytoplasm?
A solution that is less concentrated than the cell it surrounds that causes water to go into the cell.
What is a hypotonic solution?
The cell that fertilizes an egg cell.
What is a spermatozoon?
The basic unit of life.
What is the cell?