Cell Jobs & Analogies
If a cell were a real city, the nucleus would play the role of this building, where the leader works.
What is City Hall?
This organelle is the control center of the cell
What is the nucleus?
The powerhouse of the cell, this organelle gives the cell energy.
What is the mitochondria?
The organelle that controls what goes in and out of the cell
What is the cell membrane?
This part of the cell would serve as a security force, allowing certain things to come in and out.
What is the cell membrane?
Tiny factories that build proteins in the cell
What are ribosomes?
Small, temporary storage organelles for nutrients or waste
What are the vacuoles?
The jelly-like liquid that fills the cell; all organelles float in it.
What is the cytoplasm?
This plant-only part would serve as a thick structure surrounding and protecting the city.
What is the cell wall?
This essential genetic material is located in the nucleus and contains an organism's genetic information
What is DNA?
This large storage center is specific to plant cells
What is the large central vacuole?
The stiffer outer layer of the plant cell
What is the cell wall?
This organelle is like a city's hydropower plant.
What is the mitochondria?
The specific, dense region inside the nucleus
What is the nucleolus?
These tiny sacs break down waste using digestive enzymes
What are lysosomes?
Plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts, but this common type of cell does not have either of them.
What is an animal cell?
These organelles act like solar panels and make the cell-city completely solar-powered and energy efficient.
What are chloroplasts?
The packing department of the cell that sorts, packages and moves proteins around the cell
What is the Golgi apparatus?
These essential organelles performs photosynthesis, giving the plant cell energy.
What are the chloroplasts?
This boundary surrounds the nucleus and contains the genetic material of the cell
What is the nuclear membrane?