CELLS THE UNIT OF LIFE

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CELLS THE UNIT OF LIFE
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Vocabulary

• Cell membrane a structure that forms the outer
  boundary of the cell.
• Electron microscope bends beams of electrons in
  a magnetic field and can magnify images up to one
  million times or more.
• Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) a complex series of
  folded membranes in the cell cytoplasm that is
  involved in moving cellular products.
• Nucleus the positively charged, central part of
  an atom eukaryotic organelle that directs all
  the activities of the cell and is surrounded by a
  double membrane.

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Define these words using the computer and/or a
dictionary.

• Cell theory
• Cytoplasm
• Ribosome
• Mitochondria
• Organelle

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• Compound light microscope
• chromatin
• Golgi body
• organ
• lysosome

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• Host cell
• virus
• vaccine
• tissue
• chloroplast
• cell wall

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Put all vocabulary into one alphabetical order
list.
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When you are finished.READ!!!
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