Surrounds a plant cell membrane and provides structure and protection for the cell.
Found only in a plant cell!
Cell membrane
A selectively permeable outer membrane of a cell that allows food and oxygen to move into the cell and wastes to leave.
Found in both plant and animal cells!
Cytoplasm
The gel-like substance inside the cell membrane that holds organelles and supports life processes.
The jello of the cell!
Nucleus
The structure inside a cell that directs the cell's activities.
The brain of the cell!
Vacuole
An organelle used for storage of food, water, or waste (The storage container).
Plants vacuoles are large, animal vacuoles are small!
Mitochondria
Cell organelle that breaks down food molecules and releases energy (ATP).
Powerhouse of the cell!
Endoplasmic Reticulum
A cell organelle consisting of folded membranes that transport materials around within the cell.
The taxi of the cell!
Chloroplast
Plant cell organelle in which light energy is changed into chemical energy in the form of sugar during the process of photosynthesis.
Found only in plant cells!
Lysosome
A cell organelle containing enzymes that digest food particles and disintegrate the cell after its death.
Found only in an animal cell!
Golgi apparatus
Packages materials so they can leave the cell.
The UPS!
Ribosome
A tiny organelle occurring in great numbers in the cell cytoplasm either freely or attached to the outer surfaces of the endoplasmic reticulum. It functions as the site of protein manufacture.