GUESS IT, CELL!

1. Cell junction that anchors cells to each other or to extracellular matrix
7. Reinforcing mesh of microfilaments under a plasma membrane
9. The most common chemical in the plant primary cell wall.
10. Cell soup
11. Short, movable structure that projects from the plasma membrane of some eukaryotic cells
13. Basic unit of life
15. Generate most of the chemical energy of the cell
16. Physicist and amateur botanist, observed the boxlike compartments in cork which he called “little boxes” or “cells”
21. Organelle that develops from a centriole
22. Sites of protein synthesis
23. Monomer of nucleic acids
24. The father of microbiology
25. Widely accepted model of the plasma membrane in which proteins (the mosaic) are embedded in lipids

2. Organelle of photosynthesis in the cells of plants and many protists
3. Viscous fluid enclosed by the nuclear envelope
4. Maintains the shape of the cell as well as anchoring organelles
5. Functions as an energy carrier of the cell
6. Multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments.
8. The location for most of the nucleic acids a cell makes, such as DNA and RNA
12. Material that stiffens cell walls of vascular plants
14. Contains the light harvesting system composed of chlorophyll and phospholipids.
17. Interconnected membranes that serve a function involving protein synthesis and transport
18. The area between membranes inside the chloroplast.
19. Cell junctions that connect the cytoplasm of adjacent plant cells
20. Storage areas