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Flashcards by minaal imran, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by minaal imran
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| Question | Answer |
| What term best describes a watery, jelly-like mixture? | Cytoplasm |
| What does the Nucleus do? | Controls all activities of the cell |
| What is Cell Membrane? | The skin that holds the cell together. It controls what comes in and out of the cell |
| What does Vacuole do in animal cells? | May contain wastes or chemicals that are being moved around the cell |
| Define Ribosomes | Microscopic 'factories' that produce proteins used by the animal for growth and repair. They aren't considered true organelles because they aren't always enclosed in a membrane |
| What additional structures do plant cells have that animal cells don't? | Cell wall, Chloroplast and a larger Vacuole |
| Is the Vacuole in a plant cell or animal cell larger? | Plant cell |
| Define Chloroplasts | Contain a green substance called chlorophyll and are found in the green parts of plants. Photosynthesis also takes place here |
| What process do plants use to make food? | Photosynthesis |
| Define Photosynthesis | A process where plants use energy from the Sun to chemically combine water and Carbon Dioxide from the air to make a sugar called glucose |
| Describe the Vacuole of a plant cell | It's large and occupies most of the cell. It's filled with sap and stores water, wastes and nutrients |
| What lies outside the cell membrane and keeps the plant upright? | Cell wall |
| Define Fungi | Fungi (Fungus) are organisms that can be made of just a single cell or many cells |
| How does Fungi get food? | They produce and release chemicals that digest the material they are growing on. They then absorb the digested material into their cells |
| What type of cell has the same organelles as an animal cell but with a cell wall? | Fungi Cell |
| What are the building blocks of all living things? | Cells |
| What are organelles? | Other structures within a cell |
| What is a living thing that is only made up of one cell known as? | Unicellular organism |
| Define Bacteria | Small & simple cells that do not have any organelles or a true nucleus |
| What is the name of the group that Unicellualr organisms belong to? | Protists |
| What is Mitosis? | When a cell divides into two identical cells. First the nucleus divides into two and then the cytoplasm divides |
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