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308283553086000“Cell City” Your Name: Click here to enter text. In many ways cities are living entities just like cells. Cities thrive on organization through certain offices and physical buildings that help it function and support the lives of the citizenry. The same can be said of cells. Each cell has a specific function and usually works to create a protein that is used by that cell and/or the entire organism it belongs to. Before reading the following passage and matching the parts of the city to their analogs in the cell, briefly define and describe the function for the following: Nucleus- Click here to enter text. Ribosomes- Click here to enter text. Mitochondria- Click here to enter text. Rough endoplasmic Reticulum- Click here to enter text. Golgi apparatus- Click here to enter text. Cytoplasm- Click here to enter text. Vesicles- Click here to enter text. Vacuoles- Click here to enter text. Lysosomes (specialized vesicles)- Click here to enter text. Cell Membrane- Click here to enter text. Channel proteins- Click here to enter text. The following story is about a place far away called Cellcity. Cellcity’s border is surrounded by a protective city wall. Inside, the city’s road system allows its residents to travel throughout the city. Bricks for the city roads, buildings, etc. are produced at the local brickyard. When someone in Cellcity wants to send a package to a neighboring town, all they have to do is visit the post office. Everyone’s home in Cellcity is kept warm in winter and cool in summer with power from one of the many municipal energy plants. Although, for the energy conscious residents, there is also a solar energy plant available. City hall lies near the center of town and is monitored by a surrounding fence complete with a security guard. For the history buffs in town, they can visit city hall to unfurl the rolls and view the original blueprints for town. Not everyone is so concerned with seeing the originals though. Some residents are perfectly fine viewing the blueprint copies that are frequently circulated. These copies are made using the city hall’s copy machine. Recycling is encouraged in Cellcity and therefore waste disposal centers are located throughout town. Items that residents aren’t ready to through away but no longer have room for at home and thus need to be put into storage can be conveniently deposited in one of the town’s many warehouses. Part I: Match the parts of the city (underlined) with the parts of the cell. Mitochondria Click here to enter text. DNA Click here to enter text. Vacuole Click here to enter text. Nucleus Click here to enter text. Endoplasmic Reticulum Click here to enter text. Golgi Apparatus (Golgi bodies) Click here to enter text. Proteins Click here to enter text. Chromosomes Click here to enter text. Cell Membrane Click here to enter text. Lysosomes Click here to enter text. Cell wall Click here to enter text. Nuclear membrane Click here to enter text. Chloroplasts Click here to enter text. Ribosomes Click here to enter text. RNA Click here to enter text. Nucleolus Click here to enter text. Part II: Create your own analogy of the cell using a different model and craft a one-paragraph story of how your model works. Some ideas might be: a school, a house, a factory, or anything you can imagine. Be sure to (1) incorporate at least 10 cell parts, and (2) underline the analogous parts and identify them with the proper cell part name following in parentheses. Enter your response below. Click here to enter text.