Cell Tour

Cell Tour

Nucleus: City Hall (to store chromosomes)

Nucleus Envelope: Wall (to protect nucleus and separate it with cytoplasm)

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum: Factory (to synthesize and transport protein)

Ribosome (small dots): workers (to translate mRNA code and synthesize protein)

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum: Factory (to synthesize and transport lipids)

Cell membrane: Border Patrol (to control what enter or leave the cell)

Golgi Apparatus: Delivery System (to package materials into vesicles for transport out of the cell)

Vesicles: Package (storage of materials for transport out of the cell)

Leucoplast: Grocery store (to store food materials like starch, colorless)

Cell Wall: Fence surrounding the city (to protect and give shape to the cell)

Cytoplasm: The location of the city (to contain enzymes and molecules)

Chromoplast: Art Museum (to store and synthesize pigments in the cell)

Mitochondria: Powerplant (to convert organic energy with cell respiration)

Chloroplast: Powerplant (to convert sun energy with photosynthesis)

Vacuole: Water Dam (to store materials like water)

Cytoskeleton: railway network (to give the cell shape)

Microfilaments: railway bridges (to give a structure of the cell)

Centrioles: Train Depot (a part of skeleton to help line up chromosomes during cell division)

Microtubule: the rail (to maintain the structure of the cell)

Lysosome: Cleanup Crew (to digest protein and lipids and reuse them)

Peroxisome: dis-integrators in factory (to break down long chains of fatty acids through oxidation)

Cilium: Giant motor (to move the city if it can float) (to produce movements of the entire cell)

Capsule: Guarded Wall (to protect the entire cell)

Nucleoid region: Government (to store chromosomes)

Endospore: environmental organizations (to ensure the survival of the cell under various environmental stress)

pili: connection with other cities (to exchange genes)

Flagellum: Giant motor (to move the city if it can float) (to produce movements of the entire cell)

-by Andy Liu

Eukaryotic Animal Cells

Eukaryotic Plant Cells

Vacuole

ER (Smooth & Rough)

Nucleolus: mayor (to transcribe rRNA in order to "provide" more "jobs" for "the workers" (ribosomes))

Chromatin: Officials in City Hall (to control DNA expression and replication, and strengthen it for mitosis)

Nucleus Pore: entrance and exit of City Hall (to allow materials enter and leave the nucleus)

Mitochondria

Golgi Apparatus

Peroxisome

Cytoskeleton

Genetic material (DNA)

Cell membrane

Ribosome

Cytoplasm

Cell Wall

Flagellum/Cilium

Prokaryotic Cells