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 holes This is My Cell Membrane: Plastic Bowl

The Cytoplasm  Scientists used to call Cytoplasm Protoplasm  The Cytoplasm has many molecules that dissolved into a solution My 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”