Cells Flashcards
What is the Function of a Cell Membrane?
What kinds of cells possess Cell Membranes?
- Controls what enters and leaves the cell
- All
What is the Function of a Cytoplasm?
What kinds of cells possess Cytoplasm?
- Moves things around in the cell
- Acts like a stream
- Lots of Chemical Reactions
- All
What are the Functions of Ribosomes?
What kinds of cells possess Ribosomes?
- Make Proteins
- All
What is the Function of a Nucleoid?
What kinds of cells possess a Nucleoid?
- Area where the DNA is located
- No membrane around it
- Prokaryotes
What is the Function of a Nucleus?
What kinds of cells possess a Nucleus?
- Brain/Control center of the cell
- Controls heredity
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of a Nucleolus?
What kinds of cells possess a Nucleolus?
- Makes ribosomes
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of Pili?
What kinds of cells possess Pili?
- Help bacteria stick to surfaces
- Can trade plasids through them
- Prokaryotes
What is the Function of Plasmids?
What kinds of cells possess Plasmids?
- Extra loops of DNA
- Contains on a few genes
- Often contain Resistance Genes
- Prokaryotes
What is the Function of a Flagella?
What kinds of cells possess a Flagella?
- Movement
- Some Protists, Animals, and Prokaryotes
What is the Function of a Capsule?
What kinds of cells possess a Capsule?
- Protects against Antibiotics
- Prokaryotes
What is the Function of a Cell Wall?
What kinds of cells possess a Cell Wall?
- Support and Protection
- Prokaryotes- Peptidolycan
- Plants- Cellulose
- Fungi- Chitin
- Some Protists
What is the Function of a Mitochondria?
What kinds of cells possess a Mitochondria?
- Make ATP by doing the 2nd and 3rd part of Cellular Respiration
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of Rough ER?
What kinds of cells possess Rough ER?
- Makes, perfects, stores, and transports proteins
What is the Function of the Golgi Body?
What kinds of cells possess a Golgi Body?
- Warehouse whre proteins and lipids are stored for distribution
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of Smooth ER?
What kinds of cells possess Smooth ER?
- Makes Lipids
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of Centrioles?
What kinds of cells possess Centrioles?
- Help with cell division
- Animals
What is the Function of Lysosomes?
What kinds of cells possess of Lysosomes?
- Contain digestive enzymes
- Breaks down molecules
- Recycle old cell parts
- Stomachs of the cell
- Animals
What is the Function of Microtubules?
What kinds of cells possess Microtubules?
- Protein filament that can contract
- Muscles of a cell
- Can push and pull things into the cell
- Eukaryotes
What is the Function of Chloropasts?
What kinds of cells possess Chloroplast?
- Make glucose by doind photosynthesis
- Plants
- Some Protists
What is the Function of Large Vacuoles?
What kinds of cells possess Large Vacuole?
- Store Water
- Control cell size and pressure
- Stores wastes
- Store certain pigments
- Plants
- Some protists
What is the Cell Theory?
- All living things are made of cells
- Cells are the smallest unit of life
- All cells come from existing cells
What do All cells have in Common?
- DNA
- Cytoplasm
- Cell Membrane
- Ribosomes
What are Viruses?
- No cells
Differences Between Prokaryote and Eukaryotes
Prokaryote Eukaryotes
Single celled Multicelled
no nucleus, or membrane nucleus
bound organelles membrane bound organelles
