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18 Cards in this Set
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VACUOLE
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Analogy: backpack
Function:saclike storage structure found in both animal and plant cells |
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CILIUM
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short threadlike structure that helps a unicellular organism move
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CHLOROPLAST
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traps energy from sunlight and converts it to chemical energy
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LYSOSOME
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Analogy:garbage disposal
Function:contains digestive enzymes that help clean up the cell |
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CYTOSKELETON
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Analogy:highway
Function:framework of filaments and fibers involved in cell support and movement |
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NUCLEOLUS
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Analogy: factory
Function: made of RNA and manufactures ribosomes |
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CELL MEMBRANE
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Analogy:door
Function: controls what goes in and out of cell |
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CELL WALL
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Analogy: house protecting peopl inside
Function: helps protect and support cell, determines the shape of cell |
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CHLOROPLAST
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Analogy: factory
Function:found only in plant cells, it consists of two envelopelike membranes that surround a folded inner membrane |
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PLASTID
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Analogy: storage tanks
Function:a plant organelle that may store starch or pigments |
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RIBOSOMES
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Analogy: factories
Function:an organelle that serves as a protein factory |
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ROUGH ER
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Transport channels that are studded with ribosomes
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ER
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Analogy:truck tasporting goods
Function:a complex network of channels that is involved with transport, storage, and making and modifying proteins |
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MITOCHONDRIA
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Analogy:power house
Function:converts chemical energy in food into a form that is more easily digested |
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MICROTUBULE
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tiny hollow tube made of proteins that is involved with support, the movement of organelles within the cell, and the formation of centrioles
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MICROFILAMENTS
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long, thin fiber that functions in the movement and support of the cell
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ORGANELLE
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Any tiny like structure that performs a specialized function in the cell
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GOLGI APPARATUS
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Analogy: assemply line in factory
Function:Modifies, collects, packages, and distributes proteins that are produced by the cell |
