Term | Definition |
Cell Wall | Supports (like an outer skeleton), protects cell, allows materials to go in and out. |
Cell Membrane | Protects the cell, allows materials to go in and out. |
Selectively Permeable | Allows only selective items to go in and out. |
Nucleus | Control center of the cell- Controls everything that the cell does. |
Chromosomes | Hold the DNA that passes on the traits to offspring |
Endoplasmic Reticulum | Long tubes that transport materials around the cell. |
Ribosomes | Make protein which is used to repair cell parts. |
Mitochondria | Breaks down food, (glucose), to release energy for the cell |
Vacuole | Stores food and waste for the cell. |
Chloroplast | Use chlorophyll to capture sun's energy to make molecules of sugar-food, (glucose) |
cytoplasm | Jelly like substance in the cell that the organelles float in |
Lysosome | Breaks apart damaged material in the cell and recycles it |
Nucleoulus | Produce ribosomes |
Golgi Bodies | Package Proteins and bring them where needed |
Photosynthesis | When a cell captures the sun's energy with chlorophyll, and uses the energy to make glucose from water and Carbon Dioxide. |
Glucose | simple sugar molecule that a plant uses to make energy |
Robert Hooke | Looked at cork- tree bark- slices and saw cells-- named them cells because they looked like an empty room to him. |
Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Invented the microscope. First time we saw microscopic cells. |