Question | Answer |
What is the smallest unit of life? | Cells |
What type of cell has no membrane bound nucleus? | Prokaryotes |
What type of cell has a membrane bound nucleus? | Eukaryotes |
Which cell part directs activities and contains genetic information? | Nucleus |
Which cell part gives it protection, control of movement and support? | Cell Membrane |
Which cell part gets energy from the sunlight to produce energy? | Chloroplast |
Which cell part stores food, water and waste? | Vacuoles |
Which cell part breaks down sugar molecules to release usable energy? | Mitochondria |
Which cell part digests old cell parts? | Lysosomes |
Which cell part receives packages from the ER and prepares proteins for their specific jobs or functions? | Golgi Apparatus |
Which cell part transports material throughout the cell? | Endoplasmic Reticulum |
Which cell part produces proteins? | Ribosomes |
Which cell part gives it its shape and supports and protects cell organelles? | Cytoplasm |
Which cell part is a small dense spherical structure in the nucleus? | Nucleolus |
Who observed cells in cork and coined the term "cells"? | Robert Hooke |
Who created a powerful microscope? | Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
Who noticed that pollen grains in water jiggled around (called Brownian Motion)? | Robert Brown |
Who was a botanist who concluded that all plants are made of cells? | Matthias Schleiden |
Who was a zoologist who concluded that all animals are made of cells? | Theodore Schwann |
Who was a physician who did research on cancer cells and concluded that all cells are from pre-existing cells? | Rudolph Virchow |
What are 3 principles of The Cell Theory? | 1. All living things are made up of 1 or more cells
2. All living cells arise from pre-existing cells by division
3. The cell is a fundamental unit of structure |