Cell Organelles

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (plural) (8)
  2. 4. A government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function (plural) (6)
  3. 9. An organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (plural) (9)
  4. 11. Plastid containing ___ and other pigments (plural) (12)
  5. 13. Dutch pioneer microscopist who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and who gave (11)
  6. 14. English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light (5)
  7. 15. German pathologist who recognized that all cells come from cells by binary fission and who (7)
  8. 16. A specialized part of a cell (9)

Down

  1. 1. Any fine network (9)
  2. 3. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  3. 5. An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell (plural) (9)
  4. 6. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement (6)
  5. 7. A thin ___ enclosing the cytoplasm of a ___ (12)
  6. 8. Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function (plural) (7)
  7. 10. German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 formulated the cell theory (9)
  8. 12. German physiologist and histologist who in 1838 and 1839 identified the cell as the basic structure (7)