1. Cells: The Basic Units of Life
In 1665 Robert Hooke looked at a thin slice of cork and he saw that the cork looked like little boxes. So he called them cells.
The word “cell” in Latin means “Little rooms.”

2. How big is a cell?

3. The Cell Theory All organisms are made of cells.
The cell is the basic unit of life in all living things.
All cells come from existing cells.
Matthias Schleiden (German Scientist) conclude that all plant parts are made of cells.
Theodor Schwann also a German Scientist concluded that all animal parts are made of cells.
Because of his knowledge of Schleiden’s theory, Schwann wrote the first two parts of the cell theory which are stated in the slide.
About 20 years later another scientist, Rudolf Virchow, discovered that cells couldn’t develop from anything but other cells.
Students should write this down on their worksheets.
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT ALL LIVING THINGS SHARE A SIMILAR STRUCTURE

4. Two Types of Cells
All cells, whether they are prokaryotic or eukaryotic, have some common features

5. Organelles
Organelles are structures that enable the cell to live, grow and reproduce.
Read from the slide, tell students that all cells have organelles, however not all cells have membrane covered organelles.

6. Two Types of Cells Prokaryotic Cells: Have no membrane covered nucleus
Have no membrane - covered organelles
Have circular DNA
Are bacteria
These types of cells have no membrane covered nucleus.
They are bacteria cells.
Ask students if they think that all bacteria is bad:
Explain to them that not all bacteria is bad, that there is good bacteria.
It is in food, like yogurt, cheese and some other dairy products.
It is used in medicine as Antibiotics.
Some bacteria can live in extreme conditions, such as:
- In the crust of the ocean ridges, where hot gases are leaking out constantly.
- In the very bottom of the sea, where the pressure is so great that it would crush any other living thing and the temperature is very low.
Have students fill out Prokaryotic worksheet portion.

7. Two Types of Cells Eukaryotic Cells: Have a nucleus
Have a membrane - covered organelles
Have linear DNA
Are all other cells
More complex than bacteria cells
They make up anything that is living, such as:
- Plants
- Animals
- Fungi
- Protists
Anything but bacteria
Some have a cell wall and some do not.
Have students complete the eukaryotic part of the worksheet.

8. Organelles
Organelles are structures that enable the cell to live, grow and reproduce.
Read from the slide, tell students that all cells have organelles, however not all cells have membrane covered organelles.

9. Cell Membrane Outer layer of cell
Allows nutrients into the cell and wastes outside of the cell
Made from phospholipids layers.
“Gate into the city”
Cell Membrane

10. Cytoplasm
Cytoplasm a jelly-like fluid contained in the cell that holds the organelles.
Read the slide

11. The Nucleus The control center of the cell Contains the Cell’s DNA
Could be considered the library of the cell.
It contains all of the genetic materials used by the cell like DNA and info on how to make all of the cell’s proteins.
The nucleolus in the nucleus stores materials that will be used to make ribosomes and cytoplasm.
Nucleolus
Nuclear Membrane
“Mayor’s office”

12. Mitochondria Power center of cell
Outer Membrane
Power center of cell
Provides the energy the cell needs to move, divide, etc.
Mitochondria is considered the power plant of the cell.
They must have oxygen to make ATP(which is the cell’s energy) So that is why we need to breath.
For very active cells, there are thousands of mitochondria.
Inner Membrane
“Electric company of the cell”

13. Ribosomes Site where proteins are made Cell parts are made of proteins
Makes proteins, which make up the cells.
“Factories of the cell”

14. Endoplasmic Reticulum
Transportation system of cell
Rough ER- ribosome's attached
Smooth ER- no ribosome's
Endoplasmic Reticulum
The ER is like the FedEx or UPS of the cell.
Substances move through tubular connections from one place to another.
The ER is responsible for delivering proteins to different parts of the cell.
Ribosomes
“Roadways of the cell”

15. Golgi Complex Packaging house of cell
Packages, processes, and ships out the stuff the cell makes
Remember the lipids and proteins that were being delivered by the ER?
When the Golgi complex or apparatus gets them, they modify and package the proteins and lipids and ship them out of the cell.
IT is called Golgi because it was discovered by an Italian scientist named Camillo Golgi (he was the first to discover the organelle.)
Talk about Vesicles and how they are formed by pinched off ER and Golgi complex.
“UPS of the cell”

16. Lysosomes Digests food particles and cell parts
“Garbage men”
Protects cell by digesting foreign invaders
“Police men
Special vesicles that contain enzymes.
When a cell engulfs a particle, the lyosomes bump into it an pour enzymes into it. Then the particle is digested by the enzymes.
Sometimes lyosomes break open and pour out the enzymes into the cytoplasm. This will kill the cell.
- this is why tadpoles lose their tails
- this is why humans don’t have webbed feet. The lyosomes kill the cells that make up the tails and webbing.
This act is a theory on how we age.

17. Vacuole Stores water, food & wastes Vacuole
Vacuoles are found only in plants.
Can anyone tell me what happens when you don’t water a plant for a couple of days or week? It goes limp and the leaves droop.
Vacuoles that are full of water and air, support the cell.
When the water and air is lost, the plants go limp. That is why we have to water plants!
The pressure that the water uses to keep the plant up right is called Turger pressure.
Ask students what Trees are made of. What makes them so big? Water and air!
Vacuole is largest organelle in plant cell

18. Cell Wall Found only in plant cells Protects and supports the cell
The strength of billions of cell walls ill be able to make a tree stand up tall and bear huge limbs.
Cell walls are made up of a material called cellulose.
Cellulose is a material that is intertwined together. It resembles a blanket or even like hashbrown potatoes all piled up.
When the plant cells are stacked on top of each other and next to each other it looks like building blocks, or for another example, like Tupper ware plastic containers stacked up together.

19. Chloroplasts Found only in plant cells
Contains chlorophyll (makes plants green)
Where photosynthesis takes place
Plant cells need energy too!
Because plant’s don’t ingest food like we do or animals do, they have to make their own food.
Chloroplasts uses the sun’s light energy to make sugar. The sugar is then used by the mitochondria to make energy.

20. Plant or Animal Cell? Nucleus Chloroplasts Golgi Complex Mitochondrion
Found in Plant and Animal cells:
Found only in Plant Cells:
Nucleus
Golgi Complex
Mitochondrion
Lyosomes
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
Cell Membrane
Ribosomes
Vacuoles
Chloroplasts
Cell Wall
Make sure to write this down on your worksheet.