ORGANELLES

Nucleus
Description: It looks like a round ball.
Function: The control center of the cell, that directs the cell's activities.
Inside the nucleus is chromatin and nucleolus.
Surrounded by the nuclear envelope.

• Description:

Chromatin
Description: It looks like silly string.
Function: Tiny strands inside the nucleus that contains the instructions for directing the cells functions.

Nucleolus
Description: A smaller round ball inside the nucleus.
Function: Produces ribosomes.

Nuclear Envelope
Description: A barrier going around the whole nucleus.
Function: Decide what comes in and out of the nucleus.

Microfilaments
Description: It looks like a beaded necklace.
Function: Strands are composed of protein actin. Form a terminal web, just inside the plasma membrane. Insoluble and most durable-collagen.

Microtubule
Description: It looks like a beaded bracelet.
Function: Movement and positioning of vesicles, organelles, cytosolic components.

Rough Endoplasmic Recticulum
Description: A shape like a net , but has rough spots.
Function: Involved in protein synthesis.
Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
Description: Spider web looking and smooth.
Function: Contain enzymes for synthesis lipids and detoxication of drugs.

Ribosomes
Description: Little dots
Function: Amino acids are hooked together to make proteins.

• Description: Little dots
• Function: amino acids are hooked together to make proteins.
• Found on the Rough ER

Lysosomes (Suicide Sacs)
Description: A cut up slice of fruit with seeds.
Function: The organelle that digests food particles, wastes, cell parts, and foreign invaders.

Mitochondria
Description: Oval with curves and creases.
Function: Breaks down food to make energy(ATP).

Plasma Membrane
Description: Gooey candy bar
Function: Decides what can come in and out of the cell.

Golgi Apparatus
Description: Jelly that was spilled
Function: It processes and transports proteins and other materials out of the cell.

Flagella
Description: String like
Function: Protein composition, structure, and mechanism of propulsion.

Centriole
Description: Sticks stacked on each other.
Function: The centrioles are found in pairs and move towards the poles (opposite ends) of the nucleus when it is time for cell division.

Vesicle
Description: A ring
Function: Holds things inside and outside the cell.

Cilia
Description: Hair like
Function: Movement