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In a far away town called Cellula City, the main export and production product is the great “dingle hopper”. Everyone in
the town has something to do with “dingle hopper” making, and the entire town is designed to build and export this great
product. The town hall has the instructions for “dingle hopper” making, and instructs that dingle hoppers come in all
shapes and sizes. Any citizen of Cellula can get these instructions and begin making dingle hoppers of their own. Dingle
hoppers are generally produced in small shops around the city.
After dingle hoppers are constructed, they are transported through tunnels in the town which can deliver the dingle
hopper anywhere in or out of the city. The town powers the dingle hopper shops from a solar panel which transfers
energy to a few power plants that are in the city. The entire city is enclosed by a curving stream and then a large wooden
fence. The city has clean air and a great street system that allows the townspeople to get where they need to go, but
only delivery trucks (and citizens with proper passports) are allowed outside the city.
1) Similar to Cellula City, organelles are parts of the cell that have specialized functions.
2) In Cellula City, the main product is the “dingle hopper”, that’s a lot like the protein products of a cell. In the
cell, these proteins are manufactured in the ribosome.
3) The Town Hall controls Cellula City. The nucleus is similar to the Town Hall because it is the control center of
the cell and contains all of its instructions.
4) The instructions within Cellula City tell it what to do, just like nucleus tells our cells what to do.
5) The products of Cellula City (dingle hoppers) are transported through the town in tunnels. Those carts can
deliver the widget anywhere in the city. In our cells the endoplasmic reticulum distributes and transports
proteins and other substances.
6) Cellula City is powered by a large solar panel that captures sunlight and turns it in to energy. This is very
similar to the chloroplast in plant cells because it traps light and allows photosynthesis to occur.
7) The power plants of Cellula City, take the solar energy and make it useful in running the factories. This is
similar to the job of the mitochondria which take food molecules in the cell and break them down to obtain
ATP.
8)
In Cellula City, the clean air and street system surrounds and connects all the important parts. In a cell,
the cytoplasm surrounds all organelles and provides them with connections to one another.
9) Cellula City is surrounded by a curving stream. This barrier is movable but still manages to keep everything
that is in the cell away from the outer environment, just like the cell membrane.
10) The fence around Cellula City provides the city with extra support as it surrounds the entire city and
strengthens it from invaders. In plant cells, the cell wall provides similar features.
11) Knowing all of this about Cellula City, I would have to say that it is probably a eukaryotic cell because all of
its functioning parts were enclosed (these cells have organelles that are “membrane-bound”).
12) If Cellula City was a prokaryotic cell, there would be no town hall and the directions for making widgets
(DNA) would not be in a certain spot. The city would be fairly basic.