Function
The control center, or brain of the cell
What is the Nucleus?
Made of tubulin subunits
What are microtubules?
Digestive organelle where macromolecules are hydrolyzed.
What is the Lysosome?
The outer layer that maintains the cell's shape and protects it from mechanical damage.
What is the cell wall?
A ribosome that creates proteins destined for export from the cytoplasm is bound to this structure
What is the Rough ER?
Involved in the production of lipids and detoxification
What is the Smooth ER?
Made up of rRNA and protein
What is a Ribosome?
The endosymbiotic organelle acquired by animals
What is a mitochondrion?
The channels through the cell wall that connect the cytoplasm of one cell to that of another.
What are the plasmodesmata?
A communication connection between adjacent animal cells
What is a Gap Junction?
Creates proteins of the internal cytoskeleton
What is a Free Ribosome?
Its structure is currently understood using the fluid mosaic model
What is the Cell Membrane?
Long tail-like structure which allows the cell to move with greater ease in an aquatic environment
What is the Flagellum?
The organelle that converts the energy of sunlight into chemical energy and stores it in the form of sugar molecules
What is the chloroplast?
Cytoskeletal structure that organizes the motion of genetic material during cell division
What are Centrioles?
Responsible for synthesis, modification, sorting, and secretion of cell products
What is Golgi Apparatus?
A membranous sac of hydrolytic enzymes
What is the Lysosome?
Organelle found in freshwater unicellular organisms that absorbs and expels excess water
What is the contractile vacuole?
The organelle that contains a membranous system of interconnected sacs called thylakoids which are stacked into grana and surrounded by a fluid called stroma enclosed in a membrane
What is a chloroplast?
This motor protein is used for moving the microtubules inside cilia and flagella
What is Dynein?
Cytoskeletal structure that maintains the shape of the nucleus by mechanically supporting the nuclear envelope
What is Nuclear Lamina?
Contains stacks of protein-filled inner membranes called thylakoids that increase reaction surface area
What is a Chloroplast?
Animal cells use this type of "trophy" to acquire their energy by consuming different organisms
What is Heterotrophy?
A solution called cell sap surrounded by a membrane known as the tonoplast in this organelle
What is the central vacuole?
A transport vesicle would be carried from the ER to the Golgi apparatus using this motor protein
What is Kinesin?