School Cell Analogy

School Cell Analogy

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum

Mitochondria

Vending Machine

The vending machines are like mitochondria because it is a source of energy. Exchanges sources of energy for money.

Teacher's Lounge

The teacher's lounge is like the rough endoplasmic reticulum because it contains teachers like the the RER contains ribosomes and teachers can modify the lessons they are teaching in there.

The School Doors

The school's doors are like the plasma membrane because it only allows certain things to enter or exit.

Plasma Membrane

Bread

The amyloplasts of the cell are like any bread that the school serves because there is starch in bread and amyloplasts are responsible for storage of the starch granules.

Amyloplasts

Food Vacuole

The Cafeteria

The cafeteria is like the food vacuole because food is ingested inside of both of them.

Ribosomes

Workers/Teachers

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

Workers and teachers are like ribosomes because they are assembled by the principal and they produce knowledge for students to learn; like proteins.

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

The Kitchen

In the kitchen they make the food which is similar to how the SER makes lipids.

Golgi Apparatus

The cafeteria is like the smooth endoplasmic reticulum because it makes foods which are similar to the SER making lipids.

Nucleus

Parking Lot

Where the teachers and students can go to different places. This is compared to how the Golgi apparatus packages and ships molecules to different places.

The Office

The office is like the nucleus because it controls all of the activities going on inside of the school.

Lysosomes

The Kitchen

Custodians

Custodians are compared to the lysosomes because they can clean things from the school just like the lysosomes can clean materials from a cell.

Nucleolus

Ramp way

The centrioles of the cell are compared to the ramp way in a school because it separates the whole building into the MS and HS

Centrioles

The Principal's Office

The nucleolus of a cell is compared to a principal because he assembles workers like the nucleolus assembles ribosomes.

The Gate and Fences

The gate and fences surrounding the school grounds are like the cell wall because it gives the school extra protection around it.

Plumbing System

The contractile vacuole is being compared to the plumbing system because it pumps fluid from the inside to the outside of the school.

Contractile Vacuole

Boiler Room

The boiler room is like the central vacuole because it stores all of the water in the school like how the central vacuole holds all the fluids.

Cell Wall

Central Vacuole

Cytoskeleton

Chloroplasts

The Beams

The beams of the whole school are like the microfilaments of the cell because they keep the school from caving in.

Microfilaments

The Walls

The walls of the school are compared to the Intermediate-filaments because they support the whole structure of the school.

Solar Panels

Chloroplasts are being compared to solar panels for a school because they both can use energy that comes from the sun.

Intermediate-Filaments

Microtubules

Other Vacuole

Hallway

The hallway of the school is like the microtubules of a cell because they offer a path to transport things through the school and are a important role in the structure of the school.

Storage Closets

The storage closets are the other vacuoles of the school because they store other different things.(Other than fluids or food)

Chromoplasts

Art Class

Art class is like the chromoplasts because it is colorful and chromoplasts give parts their color in the cell.