MCAS REVIEW – Tim and Moby - CELLS
1. Cells are the…
Building Blocks of life
2. Cells living with other like cells are called
Tissues
3. A blob of jelly like fluid is called…
Cytoplasm
4. Keeps good stuff in and lets bad stuff out
Cell membrane
5. The pieces of a cell that do the cell’s work or functions
Organelles
6. The lysosomes and peroxysomes do what?
Get rid of the cell’s waste
7. A cell’s brain is its genetic material…
DNA and RNA. The genetic material coordinates the cell’s
actions
8. An eukaryotic cell has…
Its genetic material surrounded by a membrane (nucleus)
9. A prokaryotic cell…
Has no nucleus; the genetic material floats free in the
cytoplasm
10. Most prokaryotic cells are…
Single cell bacteria
11. Plants cells have…
A rigid cell wall that helps them maintain their shape
12. The human body has about how many cells?
About 75 trillion = 75,000,000,000,000 = 7.5 x 1013
13. Almost all cells have the ability to divide. In the
eukaryotic cell, the process is called…
Mitosis. The nucleus splits apart, the cell stretches apart,
and then separates into two distinct cells.