Sherry Brink's Office Cell

by Sherry Brink

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Cell Office

Chapter 2 - Production in the Office

Chapter 3 - Management

Chapter 4 - Mail Room

Chapter 5 - Waste Management

Chapter 6 - When's Dinner?

Chapter 7 - Musical Organelles

Chapter 8 - Department of Transportation

Chapter 9 - Cell Reorganization

Chapter 10 - Division

Chapter 11 - Kaboom!

Chapter 1 - The Cell Office

If a cell is a movable cubicle corporation, the cell membrane is similar to its outer walls. The cytoskeleton is similar to its structural beams and corridors. Within the cell, each type of organelle has specific jobs to do, like different corporate departments. Organelles coordinate activities and work together or the cell cannot survive. The nucleus is the organelle for management, containing all instructions for the cell's activities.

 Every part of the cell has an important duty and it has to be perfect every time, or else.........

Chapter 2 - Production in the Office

Does your office have a molecule than needs facilitation with a carrier protein or does it apply simple diffusion? Does your molecule get things done directly or need help? Are your Chatty Cathy's cells' membranes talking to each other about business or just chatting?

Chapter 3 - Management

Nucleus management's chromatin granules wear name brand DNA thread genes to work to ease the stressful job of making thousands of proteins. Sometimes they get some time off if they are not needed. Nucleus management's ribosomes are also busy making proteins. Sometimes they chat with other organelles and sometimes they have a ribosome meeting to keep things private.Endoplasmic reticulum rubs noses with nucleus management, with its smooth personality building lipid and carb molecules and its rough personality building proteins with ribosomes helping. If you are on endoplas' good side, it will let you travel around the cubicles.

Chapter 4 - Mail Room

Golgi apparatus works in the mail room. Golgi keeps getting materials to make into vesicles from endoplasmic reticulum. After the vesicles are born, they latch on to the cell membrane so they can release their contents outside the cell.

Golgi Apparatus

Chapter 5 - Waste Management

Lysosomes work in waste management. They love their job so much, they will commit suicide and burst to fight off an enemy. Their digestive enzymes break down proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbs into smaller molecules, as well as digesting defective organelles who are not doing their job right!

Chapter 6 - When's Dinner?

Mitochondria spend a lot of time in the break room always looking for snacks to make their ATP molecules. Their DNA has a protein code and their ribosomes make it. The rest of the cell doesn't mind that they hog up most of the food since they end up sharing the energy!

Chapter 7 - Musical organelles

Cytoskeleton's protein filaments, actin and intermediate, and microtubules, like to keep all the organelles on their toes by moving them around so they don't get too comfortable. It's just a little micromanaging!

Chapter 8 - Department of Transportation

Cilia and flagella support the transportation department. Cilia are shorter and more numerous than flagella and move fluid or substances past cells. Flagella help move cells, such as sperm, that travel long distances.

A new cell is built since business is doing great. Mitosis starts. Thank goodness the genes were already duplicated! Operation Prophase begins and the spindle fibers are running from one pole to the other! During Operation Metaphase spindle fibers line up the dyads perfectly! Operation Anaphase separates the dyads into chromosomes that go to opposite ends of the cell. Operation Telophase ends mitosis and the cell now has two membrane-surrounded nuclei!

Chapter 9 - Cell Reorganization

Chapter 10 - Division

The cell wraps things up with cytokinesis while the two new cells are sharing the cytoplasm. No greediness here! The first cell forms an actin filament belt around the outside of the cell. It begins to tighten, and two daughter cells are pinched out from the one! Yahoo!!

Chapter 11 - Kaboom!

Quality Control department watches over cell division. If it sees something wrong, there is no warning. Apoptosis occurs. Poor cell. Should not have been careless! But what if Quality Control is careless and misses something? Uh oh....these careless creatures begin multiplying and create a benign tumor or cancer.....guess QC wouldn't be getting a bonus! Especially if the horrible cells move to the wrong departments- METASTASIZE!

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