WHS Cells Vocab
Cell Vocabulary
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Golgi Bodies
- Modifies,sorts,packages, and transports substances in the cell.
- Lysosome
- Garbage collectors that break down and digest materials
- Mitochondria
- the powerhouse of a cell that changes food energy into high-energy compounds
- Nucleus
- the control center of the cell that manages cell activities
- Theodore Schwann
- an anatomist who discovered that all animals are made of cells.
- Endoplamic Reticulum
- transports materials in the cell
- Matthias Schleiden
- a botanist who discovered that all plants are made of cells
- Compound microscope
- a microscope that magnifies over 200 times and have clearer and brighter images
- Cells
- extremely tiny building blocks of living things.
- Cell membrane
- the outer boundary of the cell that allows what goes in and out of a cell