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Cells of life
Microscope
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| holds the side in place, letting light pass through it. | Eyepiece |
| Adjusts the position of the lences so that the object can be seen clearly: can be coarse or fine | Objective lens |
| Light travels through it to the eyepiece lens | focus knob |
| Controls the admount of light passing through the object | base |
| Supports the microscope | mirror |
| Reflects light up through the silde into the lenses | stage |
| Used to locate specimen, then get a different magnifications | diaphragm |
| Enables you to see magnified specimen | microscope tube |
| A thin boundary around the cell that keeps things inside, lets some needed things into the cell, and lets wastes leave | cell membrane |
| A very thin boundary around the nucleus of the cell | nuclear membrane |
| A storage area of the cell that is full of fluid | vacuole |
| little round parts of the cell that make chemicals called proteins, which are needed so that we can survive and grow | ribosomes |
| long thread- like bodies in the nucleus of the cell that carry all the imformation we get from our parents | chromosomes |
| living jelly- like matrial inside a cell, whitch is continually moving | cytoplasm |
| controls the activities of the cell | nucleus |
| the powerhouse of the cell: supplies engergy | mitochondrion |