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Organelles in Eukaryotic Cells

Houjun Liu 2021-09-27 Mon 12:00

1 Organelles in Eukaryotic Cells

1.1 An Introduction.

Many organells exist in a cell — often more in Eukaryotic cells — that help execute the cell's functions. They serve a variety of purposes, and help form the basics of cellular systems. Categorizing them based on whether or not they have membranes KBhBIO101OrganellsBasedOnMembranes

1.2 Chloroplast and Mitochondria

  • Chloroplast — found in plants + does photosynthesis
  • Mitochondria — found in animals + store ATP and extract energy from ATP

1.3 Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) and Smooth ER

1.4 Ribosomes and Golgi apparatus

  • Ribosomes => synthesizes proteins
  • Golgi apparatus => packs, modifying, and moving proteins

1.5 Cell Wall and Plasma Membrane

  • Cell Wall — found in plants => surround the cell: hard
  • Plasma membrane — found in animals => surround the cell: soft KBhBIO101Lipids lipids

1.6 Cytosol, Cytoplasm and Cytoskeleton

  • Cytosol => liquid found inside cells; the "cytoplasm" floats within it
  • Cytoplasm => all the stuff within the cell

1.7 Nucleus and Nucleolus

  • Nucleus => centre of the cell, stores DNA
  • Nucleolus => largest part of the nucleous that makes ribosomes

1.8 Lysosomes and Food Vacuoles

  • Lysosomes => vesticles that contains enzymes that breaks down biomolecules
  • Food Vacoules => vesticels that stores food and other resources

1.9 Cytoskeleton and Microtubules

  • Cytoskeleton => complex network of proteins + fibres that organize the rest of the cell
  • Microtubulues => Polymers of tubulin protein that provides the main structure of eukarotic cells

1.10 Flagella and Cilia

  • Flagella => a bacteria's tail — allow them to move and also act as an sensory organ. longer than a cilla, and moves in sinosoidial pattern.
  • Cilium => a cell's "hair" — provides sensory and communications functions. Motil cilla could move about to "grab" things, and non-motile cilla can't move. more abundant that the flagella, and moves in circular pattern if they do move, and moves in circular pattern if they do move