MOCROSCOPE Flashcards
STUDY
Movement
Living things can move parts of their body.
Respiration
Living things use chemical reactions to transfer energy from sugar in food to fuel for the cells.
Sensitivity
Living things can detect when there’s a change in enviroment
Growth
Living things grow in size
Reproduction
Living things produce offspring similar to themselves.
Excretion
When living things remove the waste in their bodies.
Nutrition
Living things need healthy food and water to survive.
MRS GREN
- Movement
- Respiration
- Sensitivity
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Excretion
- Nutrition
Cell membrane
The structure that surrounds the cell and allows substances in and out
Nucleus
Contains DNA or the genetic material of the cell
Cell wall
Gives cell a rigid and stable structure/ gives shape to the cell
Mitochondria
Produces energy for the cell through respiration
Chloroplast
Site of photosynthesis (where energy in sunlight is converted into food using water and carbon dioxide)
Vacuole
Stores substances of the cell - especially water
Cytoplasm
The jelly like fluid that fills the cell