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Flashcards by Alex Guest, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alex Guest
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What does a nucleus do in an animal cell? | It controls everything that happens in the cell, like a brain |
| What is cytoplasm? | It is a jelly like substance where most of the activity in the cell happens |
| What does the cell membrane do and where is it in both types of cells? | It lies on the border of the animal cell and lies beneath the cell wall in the plant cell. It controls what goes in and out of the cell. |
| Is the vacuole in the plant or animal cell? | It is in the plant cell |
| What does the vacuole do? | it stores food and pushes against the plant's cell walls to keep the cell's structure and form |
| What does chloroplast contain and do? | it contains the green pigment called chlorophyll, which captures energy from light. This is a part of the process called photosynthesis. |
| What is photosynthesis? | it is the process of which a plant and it's cells would make food for itself. They need sunlight, CO2 and water to make this food |
| what does the cell wall do and what type of cell is it in | plant, it protects the cell |
| True or False, Plants are the smallest units of life | True |
| What do all cells have to contain? | a nucleus, cell membrane and cyotplasm |
| What is a muscle cell, is it a plant or animal cell and how is it specialised? | an animal cell, it stores protein for growth it is elastic so it can be stretched |
| What does a root hair cell do, is it an animal or a plant cell and what makes it a specialised cell | it gets water from soil, plant cell, special feature: it has a large surface area |
| Fat cell: what does it do, plant or animal cell, special feature? | It stores nutrients, animal cell, it has special tissue that stores energy into fat |
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