Functions of organelles

Question 1

How do plant cells differ from animal cells?

Answer 1

Animal cells have centrioles, centrosomes, and lysosomes

Plant cells have cell walls, chloroplasts, large central vacuole, plastids

Question 2

Nucleus

Answer 2

This is the control center of the cell.

Question 3

Chloroplast

Answer 3

This is the site of photosynthesis in a plant cell.

Question 4

Lysosomes

Answer 4

Protects the rest of the cell from its strong enzymes.

Question 5

Mitochondria

Answer 5

Serves as the “powerhouse” of the cell.

Question 6

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

Answer 6

Connects nuclear membrane to the cell membrane.

Question 7

Ribosomes

Answer 7

Site for making proteins

Question 8

Nucleolus

Answer 8

Part of the cell that manufactures ribosomes.

Question 9

Vacuoles

Answer 9

Storage area inside the animal cell.

Question 10

Golgi Apparatus

Answer 10

Area where proteins are sorted and packaged.

Question 11

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

Answer 11

Accounts for more than half the total membrane in a cell.

Question 12

Central Vacuole

Answer 12

The large structure in plant cells is filled with water and creates turgor pressure.

Question 13

Cytoplasm

Answer 13

A portion of the cell that exists outside of the nucleus

Question 14

Cell membrane

Answer 14

Controls what enters and leaves the cell.

Question 15

Compare a mitochondria to a chloroplast. What do they do? What type of cell has them?

Answer 15

They are both found in a plant cell
Chloroplasts: Site for photosynthesis in a plant cell.
Mitochondria: Generates energy for cell.