Discussion Cellular Organelles – cell organelle 1

Discussion: Cellular Organelles
Consider the following organelles:
Nucleus ( with DNA inside of it)
Plasma membrane = cell membrane
Ribosomes
Golgi apparatus
Lysosome
Cytoskeleton
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
To help you in thinking about the functions of each organelle, we are going to make an analogy between a cell and a bakery. So, the cell is represented by a large bakery. Remember: the entire bakery = 1 individual cell. Since many of the organelles are connected with proteins, we will let the products made by the bakery (cakes, cookies, bread, rolls, pies) represent these proteins. You will need to consider this as you come up with your analogies between particular organelles and structures in the bakery. Note that this analogy (cakes, cookies … = proteins) is not perfect because cells don’t just make proteins for a limited number of uses, they also make proteins that do work for the cell and serve as structures within the cell. Nevertheless, it will suffice for this analogy.
This will again be a group discussion to keep the # of posts you have to deal with reasonable. I am changing up the groups this time to mix things up a bit and allow you to interact with others in the class. These groups are also assigned at random by CANVAS. Note that you are being asked to disagree with your classmates and propose other analogies. This is not set up so you will criticize each others’ ideas but rather to discuss multiple possibilities and the pros and cons of each. This is a useful learning tool – arguing for and against different ideas! Nevertheless, in providing constructive criticism, keep it polite.
As usual, your initial post will be due Wednesday by 11:59 pm with your two reply posts due Saturday by 11:59 pm.

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