Across
- 2. An organelle filled with digestive enzymes that breaks down waste materials and dead organelles
- 4. An organelle that breaks down nutrients and produces energy (ATP) for the cell
- 7. The gel-like substance inside a cell that surrounds the nucleus and organelles
- 8. Type of vacuole that stores water, nutrients, or waste materials in plant cells
- 9. A specialized structure inside a eukaryotic cell that performs a specific function
- 11. An organelle that stores water, nutrients, or waste materials in animals cells
- 13. Also called the cell membrane; the outer boundary of a cell that controls what enters and exits
- 16. A network of protein fibers that gives the cell its shape, allows movement, and transports materials inside the cell
- 18. ____________ Reticulum: a network of membrane-bound tubes in the cytoplasm; rough ER has ribosomes and makes proteins; smooth ER makes lipids
- 19. An organism whose cells lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
Down
- 1. Allows some substances to pass through while blocking others
- 3. An organelle made of stacked, flattened sacs that modifies, packages, and ships proteins and lipids to their destinations
- 5. An organelle in plant cells and some protists that performs photosynthesis to produce glucose and oxygen using light energy
- 6. A rigid, protective layer outside the cell membrane in plant cells, fungi, and some protists
- 7. The smallest unit of life
- 10. The membrane-bound organelle in eukaryotic cells that contains the cell's DNA and controls cell activities
- 12. ______ bilayer: double layer of lipid molecules that forms the basic structure of the cell membrane
- 14. Theory The fundamental principle in biology stating that: (1) all living things are made of cells, (2) cells are the basic unit of life, and (3) all cells come from pre-existing cells.
- 15. A small organelle made of RNA and protein that reads messenger RNA and assembles proteins
- 17. An organism whose cells have a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
