Question | Answer |
The building blocks of life | cells |
The cell's "power plant" | mitochondria |
The "brain" or control center of the cell | nucleus |
The thin outer covering of the cell | cell membrane |
The part of the plant cell where photosynthesis takes place | chloroplast |
What are two things that a plant cell has that an animal cell does not | cell wall and chloroplast |
What are the most primitive, single-celled organisms called? | bacteria |
Who came up with the word cells by looking at cork under a microscope? | Robert Hooke |
What is the jelly-like substance inside the cell? | Cytoplasm |
What gives support and protection to the plant cell? | Cell wall |
What do you call the thin outer covering of a cell that allows certain materials in and out of the cell | cell membrane |
What do you call the part of the plant cell where photosynthesis occurs? | chloroplast |
What is the green pigment in plants called? | chlorophyll |
What is the process by which plants make food using sunlight? | photosynthesis |
What is the cells storage center called? | vacuole |
What is the cells control center (brain) called? | Nucleus |
What do you call the small structures inside a cell like the nucleus, vacuole, and mitochondria | organelles |
What do you call single-celled organisms that live in pond water? | protists |
What shape are most plant cells? | rectangular |
What are the thread-like structures inside the nucleus that contain DNA | chromosomes |
What type of cells do not have a nucleus | bacteria |