Cells - Crossword Puzzle

2. The control centre of a cell
3. Animals and plants that live in one place
6. An insoluble carbohydrate made from long chains of glucose molecules, and forms the main part of plant cell walls
8. Most common element found in your body
10. Cellular conversion of the sun's energy
11. Prominent intracellular plant organelle that contains mostly water
12. One of many highly organised structures continuing the genetic information in eukaryotic cells and found in the nucleus
14. The process that makes new cells
15. A pair of tiny structures found just outside the nucleus of many cells
17. The smallest unit of life
18. When cells begin to divide uncontrolled
19. Instrument used to see the first cell
20. Phase of cell cycle when the organelles and chromosomes replicate
22. Non-living rigid structure surrounding the plasma membrane of algal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells
23. Membrane-bound bodies that contain enzymes for the breakdown of materials, usually within the cell

1. There are 60 - 90 ______ cells in an adult human body
3. The part of the cell that photosynthesis takes place
4. Extensive system of membrane dividing the cytoplasm into compartments and channels
5. Site of protein synthesis
7. The parts of cells
9. Part of a cell called the "power house"
13. The information or blue print of a cell
16. Communities of living things interacting with non-living things
17. One part of a cell that allows water and food to pass in and out
21. A group of similar cells organized into a functional and structural unit