Cells and Photosynthesis

What is the smallest LIVING unit of LIVING THINGS?

• a cell

• a mitochondria

• a brick

• a protein

Plant and animal cells...

• are different, because plant cells have two extra parts

• are exactly the same

• are the same, except that plant cells don't have a cell membrane

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The cell membrane...

• is like a wall that blocks everything from going into the cell

• controls what can go into or out of a cell

• is hard and rigid, and gives the cell its shape, like an exoskeleton

Where do cells come from?

• They come from eggs.

• They come from minerals in water.

• They come from other cells.

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Which parts do ONLY plant cells have? (Animal cells don't have them!)

• vacuoles and mitochondria

• nucleus and chloroplasts

• chloroplasts and cell membrane

• cell wall and chloroplasts

Mitochondria and Chloroplasts are:

• organelles

• cells

• only in humans

• only in plants

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In PLANT cells, which part is the rigid outer layer that supports and protects the cell?

• cell membrane

• cell wall

• chloroplast

• nucleus

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Chloroplasts...

• are where plant cells do photosynthesis and make food

• are where plant cells produce energy

• are where both plant and animal cells make food (photosynthesis)

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____________________ provides the energy necessary for photosynthesis.

• water
• sunlight
• glucose
• soil

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Photosynthesis is a _____________ reaction

• phase of matter

• exothermic

• endothermic

• physical