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What is the function of the plasma membrane/ cell membrane?
Controls the passage of materials into and out of the cell
What is the function of the golgi apparatus?
To process, package, and secrete chemicals for export by the cell.
What does the mitochondria do?
the power house of the cell -seventh grade science
The site of a set of chemical reactions that transfer energy from organic molecules (food) to the energy-carrying molecule of the cell. ATP.
What is the cell wall?
A rigid, porous structure found in plant cells, it is made of chains of the complex carbohydrate cellulose
What does the nuclear envelope do?
Controls what enters and leaves the nucleus
Material found within the nucleus, it is made of both DNA and protein and it is known by two names depending on how tightly coiled the material is. What are the names?
Chromosomes or chromatin
What is the function of the endoplasmic reticulum
protein synthesis and act as the cell's internal highway by moving molecules along
What part of the cell is the "brain" or control center of the cell because it stores all the genetic instructions?
Nucleus
What is cytoplasm?
The gel-like fluid that fills the inner space between the organelles.
What does a vacuole do?
Stores food, water, waste, and sometimes enzymes.
Where are ribosomes built?
nucleolus
what are lysosomes?
digestive enzymes that digest macromolecules within the cell and may also ingest viral invaders and bacteria.
what do ribosomes do?
make proteins
What is a chloroplast?
container of chlorophyll where sugars are produced during photosynthesis
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