What is the name of the long, convuluted membrane that makes proteins and fats?
The Endoplasmic Reticulum
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What is an enzyme?
A protein that can act as a biological catalyst. Enzymes speed up chemical reactions that take place in organisms.
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These organelles are responsible for protecting a cell from the hydrogen peroxide it produces through metabolic processes.
Peroxisomes
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What are four differences between the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum.
1) The R.E.R. has Ribosomes. 2) The S.E.R.does not. 3) R.E.R. makes proteins. 4) S.E.M. makes fats.
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In this SEM, we can see Ribosomes "living" on the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum. What job do ribosomes perform?
Ribosomes assemble amino acids together in order to make proteins.
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Ribosomes are made within the ___________
nucleolus
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This organelle resembles a stack of pancakes. It is where proteins and other cell products are finished before they are packaged into vessicles and shipped into the cytoplasm or outside of the cell. What is it?
The Golgi Apparatus
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True or False: Plants cells do NOT need mitochondria because they have chloroplasts.
FALSE! Plants use the chloroplasts to make glucose (sugar). Plants need mitochondria to refine the sugar into ATP.
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This mitochondria has gotten too old and needs to be broken down so that its chemicals can be recycled. Which organelle will destroy it?
The Lysosome.
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Can we see individual chromosomes in this picture? Or do we only see chromatin?
See the dark shapes that look like hot dogs? Those are chromosomes.
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This green organelle contains a chemical called chlorophyll. It will be found in plant cell, but not in animals cells. What is it?
This organelle is a chloroplast
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This organelle regulates what goes in and out of a cell