Cell Organelles and Functions

By Parker Ness

  • Cell Organelles

    Cell Organelles
    Cells are made up with multiple organelles, such as the nucleus, mitochondrion, and lysosomes.

  • What is a organelle?

    Organelle = little organ
    Found only in eukaryotic cells, and surrounding it is cytosol. Everything in a cell is cytoplasm, except the nucleus.

  • Nucleus

    Nucleus
    Contains majority of the DNA, control center of the cell and surrounded by a semipermeable nuclear membrane.

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum

    Endoplasmic Reticulum
    Helps move substances within cell, two types (rough and smooth), rough ER has ribosomes on its outer membrane, and smooth ER has lipid production.

  • Golgi Body

    Golgi Body
    Takes big molecules and packages them into vesicles, either stores them for later or sends them out of the cell.

  • Ribosomes

    Ribosomes
    The protein builders or the protein synthesizers of the cell, connects one amino acid at a time to build long chains.

  • Mitochondrion

    Mitochondrion
    Powerhouse of the cell, produces energy for the whole cell, and has its own DNA.

  • Centrioles

    Small set of microtubules arranged in a specific way, nine groups of microtubules, and has spindle fibers radiate our from centrioles during cell division.

  • Microtubules

    Microtubules
    It is a component of the cytoskeleton, and plays a role in cell movement (cilia and flagella and chromosomes movement).

  • Lysosomes

    Lysosomes
    Vesicles floating in cytoplasm, contains digestive enzymes, used to digest food, removed dead organelles and breakdown dead cells, and functions as garbage disposal

  • Plant Cells

    Plant Cells
    Plant cells are very similar to animal cells, however there are some key differences. These differences includes a larger vacuole, chloroplasts, and a cell wall. Vacuoles stores food and nutrients, chloroplasts is what makes photosynthesis a thing, and a cell wall protects the insides of a plant cell.