Parts of the Cell Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Cell Biology has 36 clues. Answers range from 4 to 20 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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What is the study of cellular structure and function?
What kind of cells do not contain a membrane-bound nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles?
What are organized structures of macromolecules that have specialized functions and that are suspended in cytoplasm?
What is, in a prokaryote organism, enclosed in a plasma membrane and is surrounded by a cell wall that is covered by a gelatinous capsule?
What are hairlike outgrowths that are common in prokaryotes and are used for movement?
What are hairlike outgrowths that are common in prokaryotes and are used for both attaching some types of bacteria to surfaces or exchanging genetic information with other types of bacteria?
What is formerly known as blue-green algae and contain chlorophyll a and accessory pigments for photosynthesis, but the pigments are not enclosed in a membrane-bound chloroplast?
Where are the pigments that are produced from cyanobacteria held in (photosynthetic membranes)?
What are cyanobacteria often surrounded by?
What contains genetic material of the cell while also controlling the metabolism of the cell (within eukaryotic cells)?
What forms the matrix of the eukaryotic cell and is contained by the plasma membrane?
What are elliptical green organelles in plant cells that are the site of photosynthesis?
What are organelles that are found in both animal and plant cells that are the site where aerobic respiration occurs?
What is the part called that contains all of the material and organelles contained by the plasma membrane?
What are the small, regularly shaped units that you see that are surrounded by cell walls?
What part of the cell contains mostly water and is bounded by a vacuolar membrane?
What makes up 90% of the volume of mature cells and has the functions of storage of organic and inorganic molecules, ions, water, enzymes, and waste products?
What is movement of the chloroplast called?
Outer part of cell wall?
What is the substance holding walls of two adjacent cells together?
What is cytoplasmic strands that is connected to the protoplasm of adjacent walls of the cell, in means of penetrating the cell wall?
What holds respiratory enzymes and other large respiratory molecules in place within the mitochondria?
What are temporary protrusions of the cell?
What is an irregularly shaped, heterophobic protist with many internal organelles?
What is an important structure in amoeba that accumulates and expels water and waste products?
What, in plant cells, is the double membrane that encloses the nucleolus?
What, in plant cells, is the passageway for molecules into and out of the nucleus?
What is the site of detoxification and lipid synthesis in plant cells?
What is the site of protein sorting and lipid synthesis in plant cells?
What is the site of protein sorting and secretion in plant cells?
What is the membrane that controls movement of substances into and out of the cell and is the site of cell signaling, in plant cells?
What is the structure that provides cell support in plant cells?
What is the site in plant cells where hydrogen peroxide and other harmful molecules are broken down?
What in a plant cell is the site of modification, sorting, and secretion of lipids and proteins?
What in a plant cell contains the protein filaments that provide shape and aid in movement?
What in a plant cell is the site of many metabolic pathways?

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