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Cell Analogy Project

Now that you have learned about the organelles in a cell, you and your partner will need to think of an analogy, comparing the cell and it’s organelles to something of your choice, as I did below, comparing a cell to a factory. There is an example of comparing a cell to a city on the wall, you may look at that example but you cannot use it. This project should be on paper LARGER than notebook paper, and should be in full color. I will provide some materials in class, but you may need to bring in some of your own to create the project you design. You will have some class time to complete your project, but you may need to consider spending some time outside of class working on it. This assignment will be your first grade on your Spring semester report card.

Items you may want to consider bringing to class:

Glue sticks

Markers

Crayons

Colored pencils

Art pens

Stencils

Glitter

Poster board

3D model materials

Special scissors

The following criteria will be graded:

50 pts - Make sure you include a color, labeled picture or 3D model of what you are comparing your cell to (even though my picture is not labeled. This is NOT a picture or model of a literal cell, but of a soccer field or Pizza hut, or a car etc.)

50 pts - Make sure you include a typed/word processed chart with the function of each part of your analogy, and why it is like the organelle.

Please choose ONE type of cell (plant or animal), and check off each organelle as you add it in your chart:

Plant Cell

q Nucleus q Mitochondrion

q Cell wall q cell membrane

q Chloroplast q ribosomes

q Golgi body q Endoplasmic reticulum

q vacuole q lysosome

Animal Cell

q Nucleus q Mitochondrion

q flagella q cell membrane

q lysosome q ribosomes

q Golgi body q Endoplasmic reticulum

q Contractile vacuole q cytoskeleton

Please attach this checklist to your analogy

I have included a chart as an example on the reverse side of this paper.

The Cell as a Factory:

Factory Part / Function / Organelle
Central Office / Manages activities, initiates production, controls activities of factory just like the nucleus controls cell activity / Nucleus
Assembly Line / Assembles raw materials to manufacture items like the ribosome assembles amino acids to make proteins / Ribosome
Packaging & Shipping / Packs products for distribution like golgi bodies package up modified proteins into vesicles / Golgi Bodies
Conveyer Belt / Moves product within the factory like E.R. moves proteins throughout the cell / Endoplasmic reticulum
Generator / Produces energy for the factory like mitochondria convert chemical energy into ATP / Mitochondrion
Storage area / Stores materials for later use and vacuole stores water, food, and waste for the cell / Vacuole
Collection center / Breaks down and recycles used parts while lysosome breaks down food particles and worn out or damaged organelles / Lysosome
Door / Allows for things to enter and leave the factory like the cell membrane controls what enters and exits the cell / Cell membrane
Bricks and Steel / Construction materials that keep the factory from collapsing like cytoskeleton provides structure and support for the cell / cytoskeleton
Trucks/ 18 Wheelers / Move the factory when it needs to relocate like the centrioles aid in moving chromosomes during cell division / centrioles

Due to Murphy’s Law, (and in order to avert technical difficulties, computer glitches, time warps, black holes, gremlins, natural and unnatural disasters) please do not wait until the last minute to complete or print your project. Late projects are assessed 10% per day.