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What is the second cell theory?

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Cells are the basic units of structure and function

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What is the first cell theory?

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All living things made of more than one cell

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What is the third cell theory?

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Cells come from pre existing cells

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What cell part is an outer boundary for cells?

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Cell membrane

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This is the cell fluid.

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Cytoplasm

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What structure supports the cell

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Cytoskeleton

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Ribosomes are the cellular structure on which all (…….) are made

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Proteins

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What type of cell is the smallest and simplest cell?

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Prokaryote

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What makes a prokaryote different from a eukaryotes?

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Prokaryotes lack a nucleus and other internal compartments. Without separate compartments to isolate materials, prokaryotic cells cannot carry out many specialized functions.

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What is one example prokaryote.

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Bacteria

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Why are a prokaryotes enzymes and ribosomes free to move around in cytoplasm?

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There are no internal structures that divide the cell into compartments.

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What prokaryotic cell part surrounds the cell membrane?

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Cell wall

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Which type of cell doesn’t contain a cell wall?

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Eukaryotic

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Why do prokaryotic cells have a cell wall?

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They lack an internal supporting skeleton.

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The prokaryotic cell wall is made of ….

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Strands of polysaccharides connected by short chains of amino acids.

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What prokaryotic cell part enables prokaryotes to cling to most surfaces?

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Capsule

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What cell part enables prokaryotes to move?

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Flagella

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What defines a eukaryotes from a prokaryote?

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A eukaryotes is an organism that has cells that contain a nucleus.

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18
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What cell part houses the DNA of a cell?

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Nucleus

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19
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This is a cell organ

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Organelle

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20
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What move proteins and other molecules from one organelle to another?

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Vesicles

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21
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What do eukaryotes use to move around?

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Cilia

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22
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What else can cilia perform?

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Cilia propel substances across the surface.

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23
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A web of protein fibers make up ….

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Cytoskeleton

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What is the first kind of cytoskeleton?

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Long slender micro filaments made of protein actin

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What is the second type of cytoskeleton?

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Hollow tubes called micro tubules made of protein tubules

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What is the third type of cytoskeleton?

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Thick ropes of protein called intermediate fibers.

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Cell membranes are (physical characteristic)

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Fluid like soapy bubbles

28
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All things are

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Made up of one or more cells

29
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Who discovered cell

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Robert Hooke

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What kind of microscope did Hooke use

31
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Leeuwenhoek was the first to

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Observe living cells

32
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What are the cellular basses of life

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Organized parts
Obtain energy from surrounding
Perform chem reactions
Change with time
Respond to their environment
Reproduce
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The cell shape reflects

34
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Ribosomes are locared either

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Freely or attached to rough er

35
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What is the ribosomes function

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Protein synthesis

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What is the Golgi apparatuses job

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Process and package proteins

37
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Vesicles have

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Lysosomes and detoxification enzymes

38
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Lysomes are …. And peroxisomes are

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Digestive and detoxification

39
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Explain protein synthesis

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The rough ER, Golgi apparatus, and vesicles work together to transport proteins to their destinations inside and outside the cell

40
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Centrioles are related to

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Cytoskeleton

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What is the composition of centrioles

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Two short cylinders of micro tubules

42
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Centrioles are needed for

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Cell combustion

43
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The plasma membrane is sometimes referred to as the

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Cell membrane

44
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What is an example of passive to get through plasma membrane?

45
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What is an example of active

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Physically and chemically removed

46
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Cytoplasm includes everything inside the cell except the

47
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Plasma membranes are composed of

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Hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail

48
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Hydrophilic head is …. Why hydrophobic is ….

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Water loving, no water loving

49
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The plasma membrane is a

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Phospholipid bilayer

50
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What is the nucleuses cytoplasm?

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Nucleoplasm

51
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The nuclear envelope is a

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Double membrane surrounding the nucleus

52
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The nucleolus is the place where

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DNA is stored

53
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What is the powerhouse of the cell?

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Mitochondria

54
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Mitochondria transforms organic matter to

55
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The end pplastic reticulum prepares proteins for

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Export or insert into cell membrane

56
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Rough ER CONTAINS

57
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Smooth ER functions by

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Building lipids and remove toxins

58
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What makes a plant cell different from an animal cell

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Cell wall, plastids, chloroplasts, central vacuole

59
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Plastids store

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Starch and pigment

60
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Chloroplasts contain

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Photosynthesis which change light to chemical energy

61
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What stores water, enzymes, waste products

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Central vacuole

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