Cell city

Active in synthesis, modification, sorting and secretion of cell products. Groups lipids and proteins together and packages into vesicles.

• Golgi Apparatus - Post Office

• Mitochondria - Steel Mill

• Golgi Apparatus - City Limits

• Nucleus - Post Office

A squishy, not rigid outer lining of the cell.

• Cytoplasm - City Limits

• Nucleus - Town Hall

• Lysosomes - Waste Management/Recycling Plant

• Cell (Plasma) Membrane - City Limits

Can be found on the Rough ER or floating freely in the Cytoplasm. The Nucleus gives them directions on what kind of proteins to create for the cell.

• Mitochondria - Lumber Yard

• Nucleus - Construction Company

• Ribosomes - Lumber Yard

• Ribosomes - Power Plant

They produce an energy rich molecule, ATP, that fuels most of action within the cells. This is where cellular respiration occurs.

• Mitochondria - Power Plant

• Nucleus - Town Hall

• Mitochondria - Post Office

• Endoplasmic Reticulum - Road System

Reinforces a cell’s shape. Functions in internal movement of organelles and cell locomotion.

• Plasma (Cell) Membrane - City Limits

• Cytoskeleton - Foundation, Support Beams, Steel Girders

• Cytoplasm - Atmosphere

• Golgi Apparatus - Post Office

A Nucleus is most like...

• City Hall
• A Post Office
• Highways
• Powerplant

A Mitochondria is most like...

• A powerplant
• City Hall
• Warehouses
• Post office

The Smooth and Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum's are most like...

• Highway
• City Hall
• Post Office
• Powerplant

Ribosomes are most like...

• Factories
• Warehouses
• A Powerplant
• City Hall

Lysosomes are most like...

• Waste treatment/processing plant
• Power plant
• Factories
• Warehouses