Science quiz

Cell

• Basic unit of living things

• Green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis

• Rigid outer layer that surrounds and protects some cells, such as plant cells

• An energy converting organelle in plants, uses chlorophyll

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Cell membrane

• A cell that contains membrane bound organells

• Outside cell boundary that controls which substances can enter or leave the cell

• Green pigment used to make photosynthesis

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Cell wall

• Rigid outer layer that surrounds and protects some cells such as plant cells

• A highly porous membrane that seperates the nucleus from the cytoplasm

• Outside cell boundary that controls which substances can enter or leave the cell

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Chlorophyll

• a tiny structure that carries out a specific
  function within the cell

• rod-shaped cell structures that convert
  energy in food molecules to energy the cell can use to
  carry out its functions

• Green pigment in plants that absorbs light energy used to carry out photosynthesis

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Chloroplast

• A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus
  and membrane bound organelles

• Green pigment in plants that absorbs light
  energy used to carry out photosynthesis

• an energy converting organelle in plants,
  uses chlorophyll

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Cytoplasm

• A cell that contains a nucleus and
  membrane bound organelles

• material within a cell apart from the nucleus

• process by which organisms maintain a
  relatively stable internal environment

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Eukaryote

• A cell that contains a nucleus and
  membrane bound organelles

• recycling organelle that breaks down worn
  out cell parts into smaller units

• rod-shaped cell structures that convert
  energy in food molecules to energy the cell can use to
  carry out its functions

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Homeostasis

• Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment

• A unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus
  and membrane bound organelles

• Diffusion of water through a selectively
  permeable membrane

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Lysosome

• a tiny structure that carries out a specific
  function within the cell

• rod-shaped cell structures that convert
  energy in food molecules to energy the cell can use to
  carry out its functions

• recycling organelle that breaks down worn
  out cell parts into smaller units

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Mitochondria

• the control center of a eukaryotic cell that
  directs the cell's activities and contains the information
  that determines the cell's form and function

• rod-shaped cell structures that convert
  energy in food molecules to energy the cell can use to
  carry out its functions

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