Cells

A Characteristic of All
Living Things
Living Non-Living

Family: flickr.com/photos/afroswede/327940628 ; Other images provided by Science: A Closer

Look (Maryland), pages 28 and 30 (MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, 2008)
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 Generally Accepted
Characteristics of All Living
Things
 They reproduce (parents and offspring)
 They grow and develop (life cycles)
 They obtain and use energy (eat or make their
own food)
 They respond to their environment (move)
AND
 Are made of one or more units called …
CELLS
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 Cells of
Multicellular Organisms
Animal Cells Plant Cells

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 Cells
 All living things are made of cells.
 Multicellular organisms are made of
different types of cells.
 Different types of cells look different and
do different things.
 Specialized cells group together to form a
tissue and to perform a specific function
(i.e., potato cells form potatoes and
muscle cells form muscles)
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 Levels of Organization
Cells: The basic building block.

Tissues: Cells that work together

to perform a function.

Organs: Tissues that work

together to perform a function.

Organ System: Organs that work

together to perform a function.
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page 30 (MacMillan/McGraw-Hill, 2008)

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 Plant Cells
Plant cells have a cell membrane and a
more regular shape due to a stiff cell
wall. They have chloroplasts with
chlorophyll to help plants make their
own food.

Chloroplasts with
Membrane chlorophyll

Wall

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 Plant Cell Example
Pine Needle Cells

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/
Pinus_pinea.jpg

Cross Section of Pine Cells

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Plant Cell Example
Potato Cells

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia
/commons/c/c8/Potato_and_cross_s
ection.jpg

http://www.uleth.ca/bio/bio1010/bio1010.htm

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Plant Cell Example
Onion Cells

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com
mons/1/1b/Onions.jpg

http://www.uleth.ca/bio/bio1010/bio1010.htm
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Plant Cell Example
Elodea Cells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Image:Elodea_canadensis2_ies.jpg

http://www.uleth.ca/bio/bio1010/bio1010.htm
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 Animal Cells
The cells of humans and other animals have
a cell membrane, but they do not have a stiff
cell wall. They cannot make their own food
and do not have chloroplasts. However,
there is a greater variety to their shapes.

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 Animal Cell Example
Blood Cells
White Blood
Red Blood Cell
Cell

Red Blood
Cells

Platelet

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Red_White_Blood_cells.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common
s/e/e6/Bleeding_finger.jpg
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 Muscle cells must stretch
and grow.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Weightlifting.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia
/commons/7/74/Heart.jpg

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 Nerve cells send signals
to the brain from the body.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/
Nervous_system_diagram.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki: Smi32neuron http//:brainmaps.org

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Skin (Epithelial) Cell cover the body in a
thin layer. They regenerate quickly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Chica_cachetona.jpg

http://sac.edu/HomePages/nigro_dan/Cheek_cell.jpg

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Brain Cells

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Image:Brain_090407.jpg

http://www.nih.gov/

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Animal or Plant Cell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chloroplasten.jpg

Plant Cell: Elodea

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Animal or Plant Cell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GFPneuron.png

Animal Cell: Nerve

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Animal or Plant Cell?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Spirogyra.JPG

Plant Cell: Spirogyra

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Animal or Plant Cell?

Permission granted by Rhodes EMU at http://www2.ru.ac.za/administrative/emu/gr10p7.htm

Animal Cell: Muscle

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Animal or Plant Cell?

Hedges, Kathryn. http://pics.tech4learning.com

Plant Cell: Potato

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Animal or Plant Cell?

Hedges, Kathryn. <http://pics.tech4learning.com>

Plant Cell: Onion

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Animal or Plant Cell?

http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/devobio/210labs/epithelial1.html

Animal Cell: Kidney

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 Cell Review
 All living things are made of cells.

 Multicellular organisms are made of

different types of cells.
 Different types of cells look different and
do different things.
 Specialized cells group together to form a
tissue and to perform a specific function
(i.e., potato cells form potatoes and
muscle cells form muscles) 24