Cell Structure Vocab

Cytoskeleton

• Helps maintain cell shape

• Tough outer covering of plant cell. Protects and keeps its shape

• Stores materials

• Powerhouse of the cell

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Mitochondria

• Stores materials

• Found in nucleus and makes ribosomes

• Breaks down food and releases energy

• Structures that carry on the cell's processes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Lysosome

• Do not have membrane bound structures

• Breaks down food, waste and old cell parts

• Sort proteins and package them into vesicles

• Have membrane bound structures

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Cell membrane

• Makes proteins

• Tough outer covering of plant cells that protects and keeps its shape

• Gel-like mixture that contains hereditary material

• Protectice outer covering of the cell

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Prokaryotic cell

• Have membrane bound structures

• Do not have membrane bound structures

• Directs all cell activities

• Makes proteins

Vesicle

• Makes proteins

• Directs all cell activities

• Deliver materials throughout the cell

• folded membranes that process and move materials

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Cytoplasm

• Gel-like mixture that contains hereditary material

• Deliver materials throughout the cell

• Sort proteins and package them into vesicles

• Stores materials

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Chloroplast

• Folded membranes that process and move materials

• Breaks down food and releases energy

• Gel-like mixture that contains hereditary material

• Green organelles where food is made in plant cells

Organelles

• Breaks down food, waste and old cell parts

• Structures that carry on the cell's processes

• Deliver materials throughout the cell

• Helps maintain cell shape

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Golgi body

• Sort proteins and package them into vesicles

• Folded membranes that process and move materials

• Stores materials

• Found in nucleus and makes ribosomes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2