Organelle Quiz Flashcards
What is the term for the organelle that makes protein?
Ribosome
What is the term for the large storage vehicle for water, food or enzymes?
Vacuole
What is the term for the watery area inside of the cell?
Cytoplasm
What is the term that is responsible for cleaning up and recycling old materials?
Lysosomes
What is the term for a pile of membrane that helps ship molecules out of the cell?
Golgi apparatus
What is the term small fibers that make the framework of the cell?
Cytoskeleton
What is the term for the ball that stores DNA in the cell?
Nucleus
What is the term that uses sunlight to turn Carbon Dioxide into sugar?
Choroplast
What is the term that turns sugar into cellular energy?
Mitochondria
What is the term with a long, tail-like structure that acts like a propeller?
Flagella
What is the size of Vacuoles in plant cells?
Larger than normal
What organelles does animal cells have?
Mitochondria
Lysosome
Endoplasmic Reticulum
What organelle is made in the nucleolus?
Ribosomes
What function is important in centrioles?
Cell reproduction
What do we call DNA when it is found in the nucleus?
Chromosomes