Cells Flashcards
What is the basic living unit of life?
A cell
What part of a cell is like the brain, contains DNA, and is in the center of it?
Nucleus
What part of the cell makes and stores energy?
Mitochondria
What part of the cell is responsible for transportation of materials inside of the cell?
The Golgi
What part of the cell is responsible for the transportation for protein?
The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)
What part of the cell that stores all of the materials?
The Vacuole
What part of the cell is a jelly like substance that floats around in the center?
Cytoplasm
What part of the cell is on the edge of the cell and lets things in and out of the cell?
The Cell Membrane
What part of the cell is ONLY in the plant cells and uses photosynthesis and gives them the green color?
The Chloroplast
What part of the cell is ONLY in plants and provides structure for the cell?
The cell wall
What does a plant cell have that an animal cell doesnt?
Chloroplast and a Cell Wall
Robert Hooke
Discovered cells in cork, named the cell
Rudolph Virchow
Cells only come from other cells
Matthias Schlieden
Plants are made of all cells
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Saw bacteria, called it “animacules,” made a microscope
