Vocabulary
Things that have all of the characteristics of life
What is an organism?
Living things make more living things through this process.
What is reproduction?
This organelle acts as a recycling center, helping to break down food and waste
What is the lysosome?
This organelle is like the town hall and controls all of the cell's functions
What is the nucleus?
These are the 2 types of cells
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
The two types of reproduction
What are sexual and asexual?
This organelle helps with cell division and is only found in the animal cell
What is a centriole?
This organelle is like a fence surrounding the plant cell
What is a cell wall?
These are the two types of organisms
What is unicellular and multicellular?
An organism's ability to maintain steady internal conditions when outside conditions change
What is homeostasis?
Living things adjusting and responding to changes in their internal and external environments
What is a response to stimuli?
These 2 organelles are found only in a plant cell
This organelle helps to package proteins for the rest of the cell and would be like Amazon in our Cell City
What is the Golgi apparatus?
These 3 things help the cell keep its shape
What are the cytoskeleton, cytoplasm and cell wall?
Structures which have specialized functions in the cell
What is an organelle?
What is cells, tissues, organs, systems?
This organelle's job is to transport materials and molecules throughout the cell
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
The organelle would be like the recycling center, helping to digest food and remove waste
What is the lysosome?
The smooth and rough ER are in both kinds of cells. This is what ER stands for
What is Endoplasmic Reticulum?
Changes to an organism's environment
What is a stimuli?
Name the 6 characteristics of life.
What are organization, growth & development, reproduction, response to stimuli, homeostasis, and use of energy?
This organelle is present in both cells but is much larger in the plant cell, and it is mostly used for storage
What is the vacuole?
This organelle would serve as a restaurant in Cell City
What is the chloroplast?
These are the four things that ALL cells have
What are a cell membrane, cytoplasm, genetic material (DNA) and ribosomes?