Inside An Animal Cell…By: Meaghan Fortney

First Stop: The Cell Membrane Proteins and Phospholipids take up most

of the Cell Membrane The Phospholipids make up the bag and

the Proteins form holesThis is My Cell Membrane: Plastic

Bowl

The Cytoplasm Scientists used to call Cytoplasm

Protoplasm The Cytoplasm has many molecules that

dissolved into a solutionMy Cytoplasm is Antibacterial Soap… This is a picture of the bottle and the “cytoplasm in my Animal cell

Second, Here Comes the Nucleus…The Nucleus Has Three Parts: The Nuclear Envelope, Chromatin, and the Nucleolus

This is my Nucleus: Red Model Magic is what holds it together (along with some pores), The blue model magic is the Nuclear Envelope, and the Golf Ball is the Nucleolus.

Nuclear Envelope The Nuclear Envelope is also know as

the perinuclear envelope, nuclear membrane, nucleolemma or karyotheca

The two membranes are made out of a lipid bilayer

Chromatin When a cell is going to divide the

Chromatin becomes very compact You can see chromosomes when the

Chromatin comes together

Green Ribbon= Chromatin

Nucleolus The Nucleolus is made up of RNA and

Protein; It has very little DNA It has a dense mass of material

A Golf Ball represents my Nucleolus

Now We come to the Mitochondria The Fluid inside the Mitochondria is

called Matrix Some cells have thousands of

Mitochondria

Here is my Mitochondria: Blue Model Magic, and

Orange Pipe Cleaners to represent Cristae

Hey! Look! It’s the Endoplasmic Reticulum The Smooth ER’s main job is to create

and store steroids The ER works together closely with the

Golgi apparatus, ribosomes, RNA, mRNA, and tRNA

These are Ribosomes… A Ribosome has two pieces or subunits;

they are called 60-S (Larger) and 40-S (Smaller) (This is in a Eukaryotic Cell)

In a Prokaryotic Cell the two pieces are called 50-S and 30-S

The Blue Circles are Ribosomes

What's A Golgi Body? The Golgi Body was named after Camillo

Golgi who was an Italian biologist. In a Plant Cell a Golgi Body might also

produce Complex Sugars

Seventh Stop: Chloroplasts In Chloroplasts there is something called

a Stroma. The Stroma is where reactions happen and sugars/starches are made

They have a double membrane around them

Now we move on to Vacuoles Most of the Plant Cell’s Volume is made

up by however much material is in the Vacuole.

A Plant that looks like it is dying or is loopy probably has an empty vacuole.

Last Stop… The Lysosomes! When bacteria enters the cell the

Lysosome fuzes with the bacteria and releases it’s enzymes and destroy the bacteria

The Lysosomes work even if there is no food for the cell

For My Lysosome I used “Poppers”