Friday, August 19, 2011

Plzzz hlp... how do I remember cell organelles?

Well the first three are the most basic. Remember that the membrane is the shield that protects the insides of the cell from the outside. You could compare it to the shell of an egg. The cytoplasm is the fluid in the cell. The nucleus is the middle of the cell. The mitochondria are shaped like jelly beans and they help provide energy for the cell by producing ATP. Lysosome come out of a specific organelle (the golgi apparatus but I won't talk about it since you didn't list it) and its function is to help with digestion in a cell. Centrioles are responsible for cell division (if the cell ever needs to divide in half) and the organization of the cell. Chloroplast are found in plant cells (and every other cell except animal cells), and they help in the process of photosynthesis. They actually resemble mitochondria a lot. Don't be confused though, plant cells have both mitochondria and chloroplast. The cilia are these little hairs (at least they look like hairs lol) on the cell that help the cell move around. The flagella is a long tail that helps cells move around. Remember that a cell can't have both cilia and a flagella. They can only have one or the other. Hope this helped.

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