Eukaryotes
Prokaryotes
Cell Pioneers
Biotic vs. Abiotic
Key Terms
100

These two types of cells are examples of eukaryotic cells.

What are plant and animal cells?

100

This type of cell is an example of a prokaryotic cell

What is bacteria?

100

This scientist was the first person to look at living cells through a microscope.

Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek?

100

This term is used to describe a living thing with all the characteristics of life.

What is an organism?

100

These two terms determine how an organism gets its energy; either by making it themselves or getting it from other living things

What are autotroph and heterotroph respectively?

200

Although both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have organelles, eukaryotic cells have more and are therefore more this term

What is organized?

200

As they are smaller in size than their eukaryotic counterparts, many prokaryotes are this term, meaning visible under a microscope

What is microscopic?

200

With the help of his father, Hans, this scientist is believed to be the inventor of the compound microscope.

Who is Zacharias Janssen?

200

A puppy growing into a dog represents which characteristic of living things?

What is the ability to grow and develop?

200

This environmental change can be internal or external

What is a stimulus?
What are stimuli?

300

Both of these animal cell-specific organelles helps its cell divide, but don't worry, you only have to name one of them

What is the centriole?

What is the centrosome?

300

This feature is shared between prokaryotic cells and the green eukaryotic cells

What is the cell wall?

300

German scientist who used a microscope to study plant cells

Who was Matthias Schleiden?

300

Although both uni- and mutli-cellular organisms grow, this type of organism grows by getting larger

What is unicellular?
300

The process by which plants turn solar energy into glucose (sugar)

What is photosynthesis?

400

This eukaryotic unique organelle is only found in plant cells

What are chloroplasts?

400

!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!

The specific name for the DNA found within prokaryotic cells

What is the nucleoid?

400

German scientist who used a microscope to study animal cells

Who was Theodor Schwann?

400

This is the basic building block of life

What is the cell?

400

This organelle is the "powerhouse" of the cell

What are mitochondria?

500

This is the major difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and one of the quickest ways to determine if a cell is either eu- or prokaryotic

What is DNA is stored within a nucleus?


500

This feature is commonly found in prokaryotes, but some eukaryotic cells like sperm cells share this feature with their prokaryotic counterparts

What is the flagella?

500

German doctor who proposed that all cells come from preexisting

Who was Rudolf Virchow?

500

The process by which one organism makes more new organisms in the form of offspring

What is reproduction?

500
An organism's ability to maintain its internal conditions despite changing external conditions

What is homeostasis?