CELL STUCTURE

CYTOPLASM

Answer explanation

Holds all the organelles outside nucleus. Maintains the shape and consistency of the cell, storage place for chemical substances indispensable to life.

CELL WALL

Answer explanation

Structure and support to the plants.

PLASMA MEMBRANE

Answer explanation

defines the boundary between extracellular and intracellular space, cell to cell communication, regulates the transport of materials from cell to its surroundings and protects the cell

CYTOSKELETON

Answer explanation

maintains the 3D structure of the cell, participates in the movement of organelles within the cytosol, helps in cell movement especially during cell division

ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM

Answer explanation

Provides internal framework, compartment and reaction surfaces, transport enzymes and other materials throughout the cell, act as intracellular highway that aid in the transport of materials throughout the cell.

GOLGI BODY

Answer explanation

site for the processing and packaging of cell secretion/products (protein), participates in the transformation of membrane structure such as lysosome, acrosome

RIBOSOMES

Answer explanation

site of protein synthesis

LYSOSOMES

Answer explanation

Food digestion. Aids in intracellular digestion of bacterial and other foreign particles

VACOULE

Answer explanation

used for storage in plants: sugar, salts, pigments

MITOCHONDRIA

Answer explanation

(1) serve as boundary between mitochondria and cytosol (2) site of ATP synthesis