Brain teaser

What is a cell?
One year some bad insects attacked our
forest. Each day they destroyed twice
as many trees as they did the previous
day. In seven days the entire forest was
gone.

How many days did it take for half the

forest to be destroyed?
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Brain teaser
What is a cell?
Sandra got $25 from her mother,
Sanya got $15 from hers. You would
think that they have $40 altogether,
but actually they have only $25.
Can you explain?

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Cells, Tissues and Organs

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Unicellular
Organisms that are made up of
only one cell are called unicellular.
They contain everything in that one
cell that they need to survive.
E.g. Bacteria

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Multicellular
More complex organisms
like humans are made up of lots of
cells.
multicellular organisms are made
up of many cells.

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Multicellular Organisms
Cells in a multicellular organism all
contain the same organelles BUT,
they have different shapes
depending on what job they have
to do.

Red Blood cells

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Organelle

Cell
Tissue
Organ
Organ System
Organism
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Specialised Cells
All of the cells in an organism contain
the same DNA.
This does not mean that all of the cells
perform the same function.
Cells read different parts of the DNA
so they can perform different jobs in
the body.

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Specialised Cells
The cells are able to do different
jobs in the body and they can even
change their shape to suit their
job.

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Specialised Cells
Q: What is a specialised cell?
A: A cell that has a special shape
and features that help it to do its job

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Red blood cells

Your Task
Stuck round the room are some
information sheets about
different specialised animal and
plant cells.
Your job is to extract the
important information from the
sheets to fill in on your
worksheets
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Specialised Cells
Questions
Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

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Why are nerve cells so long?

Where are egg cells found?
What is palisade cell specialised to do?
Why does a root hair cell have a thin wall?
The hairs in a ciliated cell are known as?
What is a sperm cell designed to do?
How are red blood cells different from
other cells?

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Organelle
Cell

Tissue
Organ
Organ System

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Organism

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Tissues
A group of similar cells organised to do a
particular job in the body.

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Organisation in multicellular organisms

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Organisation in multicellular organisms

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In the human body there are 4

main types of tissues:

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Epithelium
Connective tissues
Muscles tissue
Nerve tissue

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A
B

Which one is the

nucleus?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one is a
chloroplast?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one is the

vacuole?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one is the

cytoplasm?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one is the

cell wall?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one is the

Cell membrane?

C
D
E

F
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A
B

Which one absorbs

light for
photosynthesis?

C
D
E

F
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Which one
is the cell
membrane?

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Which one
is the nucleus?

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Which one
is the cytoplasm?

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Cells booklet

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