Miller and Levine Biology

Organelle found in cells of plants and some other organisms that captures the energy from sunlight and converts it into chemical energy.

• Chloroplast

• Mitochondria

• Photon

• Plasma membrane

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Strong, supporting layer around the plasma membrane is some cells.

• Cell wall

• Cell membrane

• cytoskeleton

• cytoplasm

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

The structure that contains the cell's genetic material in the form of DNA.

• Nucleus

• Endoplasmic Reticulum

• Cell wall

• Cytoskeleton

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

Network of protein filaments in a eukaryotic cell that gives the cell its shape and internal organization and is involved in movement.

• Cell Wall

• Cytoskeleton

• Plasma membrane

• Cytoplasm

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Property of biological membranes that allows some substances to pass across it while others cannot.

• Lipid bilayer

• Permeable

• Selectively impermeable

• Selectively permeable

concept of biology that states that:

1) all living things are composed of cells

2) cells are basic units of structure/function in living things

3) new cells are produced from existing cells

• cell

• cell theory

• cell membrane

• nucleus

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

structure that contains the cell's genetic material in the form of DNA

• nucleus

• ribosome

• mitochondria

• cell membrane

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

thin flexible barrier that surrounds all cells;

regulates what enters and leaves the cell

• nucleus

• ribosome

• mitochondria

• cell membrane

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

jelly-like, fluid portion of the cell outside of the nucleus

• cytoplasm

• organelle

• ribosome

• cytoskeleton

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

specialized structure that performs important cellular functions within a eukaryotic cell

• cytoplasm

• organelle

• nucleus

• cytoskeleton

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2