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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.
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4. Like a fence, the cell membrane
controls what goes in and out.
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5. Like a computer holding
instructions, chromosomes contain
the instruction for directing the
activities of a cell.
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6. Like a control room, the nucleus is
surrounded by the nuclear envelope
(controls what goes in and out)
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7. Like a power plant, the
mitochondria converts the energy in
food to energy the cell can use.
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8. Like an assembly line, the
endoplasmic reticulum is where stuff
is made.
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9. Like robots, ribosomes make the
proteins produced by the cell.
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10. Messenger RNA takes
instructions from the DNA in the
nucleus to the ribosomes for making
proteins.
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11. Like stuff made by robots, the
proteins produced by ribosomes are
used to build and do things.
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12. Like a packaging room, the Golgi
body puts a membrane around
materials that need to be
transported.
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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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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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