Types of Cells (basic definitions)

Question 1

What is unicellular?

Answer 1

When a biotic thing is made of only ONE cell. It relies on one cell to complete all the neccessary functions of the entire organism.

Question 2

What is multicellular?

Answer 2

When a biotic thing is made of more than one cell.

Question 3

Organisms can either be unicellular, multicellular, or have no cells.

True or False? Explain your reasoning.

Answer 3

False. Organisms must have at least one cell.

Question 4

What is a paramecium? How does it produce energy?

Answer 4

A unicellular organism that lives in a pond of water. It has energy by taking food from the water and processing it through the vacuoles.

Question 5

In a multicellular organism, each cell does NOT carry the same role.

True or False?

Answer 5

True! Since there are different types of cells, like blood cells, nerve cells, skin cells, and muscle cells, they all need to carry out different roles. Therefore, they need different amounts of cell organelles in each cell, depending on their role.