Cells and Classification

Question 1

Living things grow and develop, living things reproduce, living things respond to the environment living things use energy living things are made of cells

Answer 1

Characteristics of living things

Question 2

Observed small chambers, which he called cells in a piece of cork

Answer 2

Robert Hooke

Question 3

Schwann and Schleiden

Answer 3

Cell theory

Question 4

Credited with inventing the first microscope

Answer 4

Jansen

Question 5

Used microscope to study tiny creatures he called animalcules

Answer 5

Leeuwenhoek

Question 6

His method of classification- Animalae and Plantae

Question 7

The external boundary for the material inside the cell

Answer 7

Cell membrane

Question 8

Jelly like substance inside the cell membrane

Answer 8

Cytoplasm

Question 9

Tiny structures inside the cytoplasm of most cells which help carry out the functions of the cells

Answer 9

Organelles

Question 10

Circular structure that contains DNA

Answer 10

Nucleus

Question 11

Breaks down the cell’s food and releases energy- the power plant

Answer 11

Mitochondria

Question 12

Little bundles of DNA inside the nucleus

Answer 12

Chromosomes

Question 13

Passageways that allows material to move around the cell

Answer 13

Endoplasmic reticulum

Question 14

Provide support and protection for the plant cell

Answer 14

Cell wall

Question 15

Structures that contain chlorophyll, creating energy from sunlight

Answer 15

Chloroplasts

Question 16

Chromosomes duplicate once and the cell divides once; produces two new identical daughter cells to the parent cell

Answer 16

Mitosis

Question 17

The chromosomes duplicate once, and original cell divides twice, this process produces for reproductive cells

Answer 17

Meiosis