By design Science Ch.2 how are cells alike and different

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cell membrane

A cell structure that controls which substances can enter or leave the cell.

prokaryotic cell

A cell tht doesn't have nucleus

Eurkaryotic cell

A cell with nucleus

Vacuole

A fulid-filled storgae container

Chloroplasts

A large, green oval shaped organelle where photosynthesis tske place

Diffusion

A movement of particles of liquids, gases, or solids from a region af high concentration to one of lower concentration

Endoplasmic Reticulum/ER

A network of tubes like channels that winds through the cytoplasm

Gogli Apparatus

A organelle that packages the materials for the ER to transport

Organelles

A part of a cell that needs to dobits job to keep it alive

Chlorophyll

A pigment that traps light during photosynthesis

Glycolysis

A process that breaks down glucose molecules

cell respiration

A process that occurs in the cytoplasm and the mitochondria of cells by which the cell uses oxygen to brwakdown sugar into water and carbon dioxide

Photosynthesis

A process that plants make food

Osmosis

A process where water passes through the cell membrane

Cytoplasm

A semi-fluid material thay makes up the inside of cells

Glucose

A simple sugar that is a by-product of photosynthesis

Vesicle

A small sac-like structure that forms when part of the smooth ER buds up

ADP

A special energy molecule that changes light wnergy into chemical energy

ATP

A type of high-energy molecule that powers many cell activities

selectively permeable

Ability of the cell membrane to control what are allowed in and out of the cell

Mitochondria

Are organells that release the energy the cell need to function

Nucleus

Control center of the cell

Active transport

Kind of cell transport that ises energy

Multicellular

More than one cell

Unicellular

One cell

Micrometer

One millionth of a meter

Cell wall

Ridged outer layer that keep the cells inside of a plant cell

Lysosomes

Specialized vesicle that floats freely in the cytoplasm

passive transport

When diffusion, facilitateded diffusion, and osmosis occur without energy

Fermentation

a type of anaerobic respiration that does not require oxygen

facilitated diffusion

a type of passive transport that requiers no energy. Which proteins aid in the passing of a substance through the cell membrane

Abiogenesis

scienntist Alexander Oparin suggested that living cells came from nothing (evolution)


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