Download Lazar Life Lab- Roles in the Garden Name After working in the

Lazar Life Lab- Roles in the Garden
Name ______________________________
After working in the garden for the last couple of weeks, you have probably noticed that there are many jobs that go into making the
garden successful. The job of the garden is to produce ___proteins__. How do the jobs in the garden relate to the jobs that are
necessary for cells to operate successfully?
 A cell is the smallest unit of _life_.
 Your body is made up of trillions of cells with each one working hard to produce _proteins_.
 These proteins are used as building blocks for many different things. For example, your ___hair___ and ____skin____ are
made up of a special protein made by cells.
 However, in order to carry out this important task, cells are made of tiny structures that work together. These tiny structures
are called ____organelles______.
Name
Plant or Animal
Cell
Door, gatekeeper, security
guard
Both
Garden wall
Plant
Air, dirt, jello
Both
Garden Duty
controls what enters and exits the
garden/cell
Organelle
Cell Membrane
gives shape and support to the garden/cell Cell wall
surrounds all things in the garden
Cytoplasm
Jelly like fluid in the cell
Mr.Myers, boss
Both
controls all the garden’s activities (brain
of garden/cell)
Nucleus
notes
Name
Plant or
Animal Cell
Your parents, like the
center of a tootsie roll pop
Both
The site where ribosomes are made
Nucleolus
Student workers in the
garden, factory workers
Both
Responsible for making proteins/food
Ribosomes
Student packaging plants,
mailroom
Both
It packages, tags, and ships the proteins out of the cell or
to storage.
Student who carries
packaged plant, factory
cars
Both
Carries the proteins from one part of the cell to the other.
(sounds like “vehicle”)
Vesicle
Shed
Both
storage areas of the garden
Plants –Have 1 large vacuole filled with mostly water
Animals – Have many smaller vacuoles filled with food
Vacuole
Compost
Both
They clean the cell using powerful chemicals to digest
waste, old cell parts, and foreign invaders.
Lysosome
Sun, battery
Both
These “mighty” organelles break down glucose (sugar) to
create energy which powers the cell.
Mitochondria
Leaf, solar panel
Plant
A green organelle that captures sunlight and turns it into
food (glucose) for the plant
Chloroplast
Pathways, hallways
Both
A maze of passageway that transports proteins throughout
cell
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Garden Duty
Organelle
Small, grain-like bodies floating in
the cytoplasm or attached to the
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Golgi body
notes