What is inside an animal cell?

1. What is inside an animal cell? vacuoles nucleus cytoplasm cell membrane mitochondria

2. What is inside a plant cell? vacuole mitochondria nucleus cytoplasm cell membrane cell wall chloroplast

3. Things you need to remember… • The cell is the smallest unit of life! • Cell membrane - The soft, flexible outside covering of a cell that controls what comes in and out of a cell. • Cytoplasm - The gel-like fluid that fills most of a cell. The other organelles are found in the cytoplasm. • Nucleus - A small structure that controls everything the cell does.

4. Things you need to remember… • Vacuole(s) - • Are storage spaces in the cell. • They can hold water and other nutrients that the cell needs. • They can also store wastes until the cell can get rid of it.

5. Things you need to remember… • Mitochondria – where energy is made! • Cell wall – found only in plant cells. Provides support for the plant. • Chloroplasts – found only in the plant cell. Where the plants make their own food.