CELL PART ANALOGIES Trenton Michalak & Travis Grahmann

NUCLEUS  The nucleus is like the lead singer, it is the heart of the band because the nucleus is like the heart of the cell

CELL MEMBRANE  The cell membrane is like a producer of music saying what you can produce and what you cant produce, like the cell membrane in a cell regulates what comes in and out of the cell

MITOCHONDRIA  Mitochondria is like the power house of the band because in the cell the mitochondria converts chemical energy into food

CELL WALL  The security guard of the band, it is a strong supporting layer around the cell membrane, the cell keeps the unwanted stuff out of the cell. The cell wall is mainly found in plant cells.

CYTOPLASM  It is the portion of the cell outside the nucleus like the cars in the parking lot of a concert building.

VACUOLES  The saclike structure that stores the material in a cell like a equipment closet that stores all the bands instruments.

NUCLEOLUS  It is the small dense region in the nucleus where ribosomes assembly begins like the factory where they assemble the instruments.

CHLOROPLAST  The organelles that capture energy from sunlight and convert it to chemical energy like sound absorbers that absorb the sound.

CENTRIOLE  A pair of microtubules that help organize cell division like the instructor to help organize the music so it does not get mixed up and sounds good.

GOLGI APPARATUS  The site where materials from the ER are modified, sorted, and packaged for storage like in a recording studio to make the singer sound better.