Unit one lab project:Building a cell

This is a model of a cell using play-doh, candles, stiro foam, paint, tooth picks, shoestrings, and glue.

The red around the edges of the foam is the plasma membrane. The plasma membrane is the outer layer of the cell that controls what goes in and out of the cell. This contains lipids and protiens.

The small bundles of yellow candles represents the centriole. The centiole is an organelle consisting of microtubules.

The purple/yellow represents the nucleus which is the control center of the cell that contains the DNA of the cell.It has control over the structure and function of the cell. The purple is the nuclear envelope and the nuclear pores. The nuclear envelope is surrounding the nucleus and the nuclear pores are minute openings in the nuclear envelope that allow things to pass in and out of the nucleus. The yellow in the picture represents the chromatin. This is threadlike fibers that contain the DNA and the protiens in the nucleus.

The purple ball in the nucleus is the nucleolus.

The red string is the golgi complex. This is flattened membranes that has channels in which molecules are chemically modified and sorted.
The tooth picks represent cytoplasm. This is material that occupies the cytoplasmic compartment.

The shostrings represent two things, the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the smmoth endoplasmic reticulum. The rought has small dots of yellow on it and it is covered in ribosomes. The smooth is just the string and it has no ribosomes.

The light blue dot is the lysosome. This is a membrane bond organelle that contains enzymes
The light blue oval with the yellow in the middle is the mitochondria. The mitochondria is where the citric acid cycle and the electron transport system is.

And here is a picture of the final product of the cell.

Here is a picture of DNA replication. The process of DNA replication is where the DNA strand seperates and duplicates forming two seperate strands each of which has a DNA double helix.