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Cells
Cell Parts and Functions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does multicellular mean? | Made of more than one cell |
| What does it mean that cells are specialized? | They have a specific job |
| What cell is shaped like a box? | Plant Cell |
| What cell is shaped like a circle? | Animal Cell |
| What would you find in a plant cell that is a tough outer coating? | Cell Wall |
| What would you find in a plant cell that makes sugar and the plant green? | Chloroplasts |
| What is like the brain of plant and animal cells and has DNA? | Nucleus |
| What does unicellular mean? | Made of only ONE cell |
| What is the lipid barrier that encloses the cytoplasm and controls what enters and exits the cell? | Cell Membrane |
| What do we call what cell parts do? | Function |
| What is the organelle that functions in energy production; the power factory of the cell? | Mitochondrion |
| What is a structure inside a cell that performs a specialized function? | Organelle |
| What is the liquid that fills the inside of a cell? | Cytoplasm |
| What is the smallest unit that can be alive and makes up all living things? | Cell |
| What do we use to see cells? | Microscope |
| When looking at samples, what should you look at? | Many living things |
| What is the nucleus similar to because it directs activities? | City hall |
| Is a virus alive or nonliving? | Nonliving |
| An organelle that turns food into usable energy for the cell | Mitochondria |
| What is the brain or city hall of the cell? | Nucleus |
| What are all living things made of? | One or more cells |
| Cells are the smallest unit that can be considered ___. | Alive |
| Another name for genetic info in the nucleus is | DNA |
| Each of these things perform a unique and necessary function | Organelles |
| What are nonliving things that take over your cells and make you sick? | Viruses |