1. Cell Analogy
1. The different parts and activities of a cell can be compared to a factory.
2. The parts of a cell are called organelles.
3. The activities that a cell does are called functions.

2. Cell Analogy
4. Like a fence, the cell membrane controls what goes in and out.

3. Cell Factory

4. Cell Analogy
5. Like a computer holding instructions, chromosomes contain the instruction for directing the activities of a cell.

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6. Cell Parts and Function
6. Like a control room, the nucleus is surrounded by the nuclear envelope (controls what goes in and out)

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8. Cell Parts and Function
7. Like a power plant, the mitochondria converts the energy in food to energy the cell can use.

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10. Cell Parts and Function
8. Like an assembly line, the endoplasmic reticulum is where stuff is made.

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12. Cell Parts and Function
9. Like robots, ribosomes make the proteins produced by the cell.

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14. Cell Parts and Function
10. Messenger RNA takes instructions from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes for making proteins.

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16. Cell Parts and Function
11. Like stuff made by robots, the proteins produced by ribosomes are used to build and do things.

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18. Cell Parts and Function
12. Like a packaging room, the Golgi body puts a membrane around materials that need to be transported.

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20. Cell Parts and Function
13. The nucleolus is a darker area in the nucleus where ribosome parts are made. This would be like a robot repair table in the control room.

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22. Cell Parts and Function
14. Like a garbage service, lysosomes contain chemicals that break down things in the cell.

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15. Plant cells have cell walls and chloroplasts, but animal cells don't.

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16. Cell walls are rigid giving support and protection to the plant.

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17. Chloroplasts make sugar from water and CO2.
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