Vocabulary Review for Cells Unit (Level 2)

Question 1

What are fatty acids that are insoluble in water? They may include natural oils, waxes, and steroids.

Answer 1

lipids

Question 2

What are organelles filled with pockets of very strong digestive fluid?

Answer 2

lysosomes

Question 3

What is a substance produced by a living organism that acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction?

Answer 3

enzymes

Question 4

What is a network of protein filaments and tubules in the cytoplasm that gives shape and coherence?

Answer 4

cytoskeleton

Question 5

What is a simple organic compound containing boy a carboxyl group and an amino?

Answer 5

amino acid

Question 6

What are the smallest structural and functional units of an organism?

Answer 6

cells

Question 7

Who is the father of microbiology and the creator of the microscope?

Answer 7

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 8

What are sugars that have a 2:1 ratio of hydrogen and oxygen?

Answer 8

carbohydrates

Question 9

What are cylindrical organelle’s near the nucleus in animal cells?

Answer 9

centriole

Question 10

What is a complex organic substance that is present in cells? This carries DNA or RNA whose molecules consist of may nucleotides linked in long chain.

Answer 10

nucleic acid

Question 11

What is the control center of the cell?

Answer 11

nucleus

Question 12

What is the dense spherical structure in the nucleus?

Answer 12

nucleolus

Question 13

What are specialized structures living within a living cell?

Answer 13

organelles

Question 14

What is a process in which molecules penetrate a semipermeable membrane?

Answer 14

osmosis

Question 15

What are large molecules composed of one or more long chains or amino acids?

Answer 15

proteins

Question 16

What are small particles consisting of RNA and found in the cytoplasm? They are also attached to the rough ER.

Answer 16

ribosomes

Question 17

Who discovered cells in a piece of cork and examined them under his make-shift microscope?

Answer 17

Robert Hooke

Question 18

What is a semipermeable synonym?

Answer 18

selectively permeable

Question 19

What is a space within the cytoplasm that stores salts, water, carbs, and proteins inside its membrane?

Answer 19

vacuole/vesicule

Question 20

Who added on the Scwann’s cell theory?

Answer 20

Rudolf Virchow

Question 21

Who are the manufacturers of the cell?

Answer 21

golgi apparatus/bodies

Question 22

What is a pure substance?

Answer 22

element

Question 23

What is a threadlike structure of nucleic acids that carry genetic information?

Answer 23

chromosomes/DNA

Question 24

What is the powerhouse of the cell?

Answer 24

mitochondria

Question 25

What is the theory that cells are the fundamental structural and functional units of all living organisms?

Answer 25

cell theory

Question 26

What is a small cylindrical organelle near the nucleus of animal cells?

Answer 26

centriole

Question 27

What is a network of membranous tubules that has ribosomes attached?

Answer 27

rough endoplasmic reticulum

Question 28

What is a network of membranous tubules that does not have ribosomes attached?

Answer 28

smooth endoplasmic reticulum

Question 29

Who developed the cell theory?

Answer 29

Schleiden