Parts of the cell/ functions
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- What are organelles?
- Tiny organs within cells that protect the celll, and thus the ogranism functioning
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What is the plasma membrane?
what are it's functions?
what is it made out of? -
- Skin of the cell
- Protects interior, what goes in/ out passes through the membrane
- made of lipids (fats) - Golgi apparatus
- chemical factory
- Nucleus
- has its own membrane; enclosing DNA (in little packets called chromosones)
- All cell functions are controlled by...
- DNA
- Endoplasmic Reticulum
- "subway system" - transports nutrients
- Ribosomes
- protein workshop (location of protein production)
- Mitochondria
- "battery of the cell" - creates high energy ATP to fuel all cellular activities
- Lysosome
- "kamikazie killer"
- Cytoplasm
- acts as a filler (thickish juice)
- Vacuole
- "closet" of the cell
- Chloroplast
- * contains chlorophyl
- Cell Wall
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* thick rigid outer "casing" surroundings
- made of cellulose