Cells Flashcards

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2points of the cell theory

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All living things are made of cells

All new cells arise from cells that already exist

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What is an organism

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Any living thing

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Field of view

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Circle of light you see when you look in microscope

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What is an organelle

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Parts/structure of a cell that have a specialized function

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What is nucleus

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Control centre of cell (brain)

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Eukaryotic cell

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Cell with a nuclear membrane

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Prokaryotic cell

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In some one celled organisms the nucleus has no membrane

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Cell membrane

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Holds the contents on cell in a place and also known as the gatekeeper

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Cytoplasm

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Watery fluid that takes up most of the cell

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Vacuole

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Stores water, nutrients and waste

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Flagellum

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A tail that moves the cell

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Cilia

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Tiny hairs that move the cell

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Cell wall

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Protects and supports plants

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Chloroplast

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Food factories of the plant, gets energy from sun

Contains chlorophyll

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Mitochondria

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Produces the energy for cell through cellular respiration

Power plant of cell

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Cellular respiration

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Process of converting food molecules to produce sugar energy for cells

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Ribosomes

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Where protein is produced/ synthesized

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Endoplasmic reticulum

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Material transport
Smooth no ribosomes
Rough has ribosomes- fuzzy dots

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Golgi apparatus

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Produces/stores and packages proteins and sends them out in vesicles to the surface of cell

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Lysosomes

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Recycling/ cleans cytoplasm

Breaks down larger molecules to smaller molecules so they can be cleaned up

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What’s a wet mount

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A glass slide holding specimen with a drop of water when using a microscope

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Diffusion

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Movement of a substance from a high concentration region to a region of low concentration – air freshener

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Osmosis

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Diffusion with water

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Selectively permeable

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Allows certain materials only to pass through membrane

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Turgor pressure

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The pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell through osmosis

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Chromosomes

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Inside nucleus, contains DNA for cell (construction plans)