The Fundamental Unit of Life

Acetabularia is the largest plant cell.

Osmosis is diffusion of solvent molecules through a semi-permeable membrane from a region of low concentration to high concentration. The raisins will swell due to incoming water and this process is called osmosis.

A hypotonic solution has a lower concentration of solutes outside the cell than inside the cell. In an attempt to balance the concentrations of solutes inside and outside the cell, water will rush into the cell causing it to swell and possibly burst.

Cytoplasm is the fluid living content between the plasma membrane and the nucleus.

Cytosol is the liquid part of the cytoplasm other than the organelles.

Endoplasmic reticulum is the protein synthesising site of the cell.

Golgi apparatus is the site for storing and transporting proteins across the cytoplasm.

Mitochondria is the power house of the cell. It possesses its own DNA and ribosomes.

Ribosomes are small granules that synthesise proteins.

A vacuole is surrounded by a membrane called the tonoplast it separates the vacuolar contents from the cell's cytoplasm.

Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is called the energy currency of the cell because it is the primary molecule for reserving and transmitting energy within cells.

Rudolph Carl Virchow proposed that all cells arise from all pre-existing cells in 1855.

Plastids are found in plant cells only. They are double membrane bounded structures. They have extra nuclear DNA. Chromoplasts and leucoplasts are the two types of plastids.

Nucleic acid present in nucleus of DNA cells. Lysosomes are rich in digestive enzymes. Chloroplasts and mitochondria have their own genetic material. All these are matched correctly.

Nucleus is the control centre of the cell. Golgi bodies are the export firms of the cell. Lysosomes are the demolition experts or the suicide bags of the cell. These are correctly matched.