Introduction to Cell Structure
This text provides a brief introduction to studying cells; prokaryotic cells; eukaryotic cells; the endomembrane system & proteins; cytoskeleton and connections between cells; and cellular activities. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- electron microscope
- eukaryote
- cell structure
- cellular activity
- desmosome
- extracellular matrix
- gap junction
- plasmodesma
- plasmodesmata
- tight junction
- Anthony von Leeuwenhoek
- cardiologist
- cell size
- cell theory
- central vacuole
- centrosome
- chlorophyll
- chloroplast
- chromosome
- cilia
- cilium
- cytoplasm
- cytoskeleton
- cytosol
- cytotechnologist
- endomembrane system
- endoplasmic reticulum
- endosymbiosis
- eukaryotic cell
- flagella
- flagellum
- geneticist
- Golgi apparatus
- intermediate filament
- light microscope
- lysosome
- Matthias Schleiden
- microbiologist
- microfilament
- microtubule
- nuclear envelope
- nucleoid
- nucleolus
- nucleoplasm
- peroxisome
- phospholipid bilayer
- prokaryotic cell
- RER
- ribosome
- Robert Hooke
- rough endoplasmic reticulum
- single-cell organism
- smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- Theodor Schwann
- unicellular
- unified cell theory
- vacuole
- vesicle
- organelle
- nucleus
- mitochondria
- protein
- microscopy
- chromatin
- plasma membrane
- ER
- SER
- cell wall
- plant cell
- prokaryote
- animal cell