The Cell

Enduring Understandings:

1. Cells are the fundamental unit of life and must maintain homeostasis!

Book Chapter:

• Chapter 2

Part 1: Different types of cells

    Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic

Vocabulary introduced during this unit:

• Active Transport

• Carrier (Transport) Proteins

• Cell

• Chloroplast

• Concentration Gradient

• Diffusion

• Endocytosis

• Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)

• Endosymbiosis

• Exocytosis

• Extracellular

• Facilitated Diffusion

• Golgi apparatus

• Impermeable

• Intracellular

• Mitochondrion

• Multicellular

• Nucleus

• Organelle

• Osmosis

• Passive Transport

• Plasma Membrane

• Plastids

• Protein Synthesis

• Pumps (Ion or Molecular)

• Ribosome

• Tissue

• Unicellular