Cells vocabulary

1. The gel like fluid that fills the cell and holds organelles in place
3. Makes proteins
5. What something does
7. How something is made
8. Basic functional unit of life
10. Process by which the energy store in food is converted into usable energy called ATP
11. contains chlorophyll (green) and is where photosynthesis occurs
13. Has three parts,1 all organisms are made of one or more cells,2 All cells come from preexisting cells,3 Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in organisms
14. Cells containing a nucleus
15. Produces usable energy through cellular respiration
16. Contains genetic material (DNA) that stores instructions essential to cell function

2. The process in which radiant light energy is converted into food called glucose (sugar); (6CO2+6H2O+Sunlight=C6H12O6+6O2)
4. Stores fluids like water
6. A structure within a cell that has a specific function
9. A rigid (hard and not flexible) layer that surrounds the membrane that supports the shape of the cell (plant, bacteria, fungi, algae)
11. Absorbs light energy and gives plants their green color
12. A unicellular organism that does not have a nucleus
13. surrounds the cell and controls what goes in and out of the cell