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Cells and Unicellular organisms
Question | Answer |
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A living thing | Organism |
Composed of one cell only | Unicellular |
Composed of more than one cell. | Multicellular |
The part of the cell that controls all of the cells activities. | Nucleus |
A threadlike strand of DNA inside the nucleus | Chromosomes |
Storage containers for the cell. This is where water, food, waste is stored. | Vacuoles |
A jelly like substance that holds all the parts of the cell and contains many chemicals that keep a cell functioning. | Cytoplasm |
The thin covering that encloses a cell and holds its parts together. It allows some materials to enter the cell while keeping other materials out | Cell membrane |
The powerhouse of the cell, it releases energy from food. | Mitochondria |
A rigid outer layer that supports and protects a plant cell | Cell Wall |
Part of a plant cell that makes food | Chloroplasts |
A whip like structure, kind of like a tail, that moves an organism | Flagellum |
“false foot” a single cell organism pushes against the cell membrane forming a false foot, the rest of the cell flows after it. | Pseudopod |
hair like structures that act as oars and allow organisms such as a paramecium to swim | Cilia |
A unicellular organism that can change its shape and moves using a pseudopod | Amoeba |
A unicellular organism that is shaped like a slipper and uses hundreds of tiny hairs called cilia to swim. This organism has a mouth opening | Paramecium |
A unicellular organism that has a whip like flagellum to move and an eyespot to help guide it towards light so it can make its own food | Euglena |
A unicellular organism that live in colonies. The cells specialize to help the colony, or group of cells living together survive.Each volvox has two flagellums to help them move | Volvox |