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Cell Organelles
Term | Definition |
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Cell Wall | The Wall -- Protective border for plant cell support and structure |
Chloroplast | Plant Kitchen -- Makes the food for the plants (Photosynthesis happens here) |
Cell Membrane | The Gate -- This allows good substances into the cell and wastes out |
Nucleus | The Headquarters -- Contains the DNA which gives instructions to the cell |
Ribosomes | Factory Workers -- Smallest organelles that build proteins |
Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) | Highway -- Produces and transports proteins |
Mitochondria | Powerhouse -- Releases energy by breaking down food and sugars |
Golgi Complex | Packaging Station -- Packages and delivers proteins through and out of the cell |
Vesicals | Vehicles (or Delivery Trucks) -- Small delivery structures for transporting materials in the cell |
Lysosomes | Garbage Trucks -- Digests and gets rid of wastes in the cell |
Vacuoles | Storage Tanks -- Stores the water and fluids for the cell |
Cytoplasm | Jello -- Watery fluid that supports organelles in the cell (Not really an organelle) |
Robert Hooke | 1st scientist to describe cells -- He looked at cork cells |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Looked at blood, pond scum, bacteria, and yeast under microscopes |
prokaryote | single-celled organism with no nucleus |
eukaryote | multi-celled organism with a nucleus in each of its cells |