Organelle Task Cards
Energy Producers
Use page 77 and 79 to complete the following about the mitochondria and
chloroplast.
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5.
Function
Important Characteristics of each
Plant/Animal Cell or both
What is the relationship between these organelles?
Use the electron microscope picture to identify the organelles in your
pictures, label them.
6. Color the chloroplast with green color pencil and the mitochondria red color
pencil.
7. Have one person’s notes and picture checked.
Protein Makers (Part 1)
Use pages 75-77 to complete the following about Nucleus (including nuclear
envelope, nuclear pores and nucleolus), Smooth and Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum,
Ribosomes, Golgi Apparatus and Vesicles.
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4.
Function
Important characteristics of each
Plant/Animal Cell or bath
Determine the pathway that would need to occur for a protein to be
produced.
5. Have one person’s notes checked.
Protein Makers Part 2
1. Use the electron microscope pictures to identify the organelles in your
pictures, label them.
2. Color the organelles the following colors:
a. Nucleus-Purple colored pencil
b. Nucleolus- Blue colored pencil
c. Nuclear Pores- black
d. Smooth ER- Light green colored pencil
e. Rough ER- Yellow colored pencil
f. Golgi Apparatus- orange colored pencil
g. Ribosomes-circle in yellow marker
h. Vesicles- red marker
3. Have one person’s pictures checked.
Clean-up and Storage
Use pages 77-78 to complete the following for vacuoles and lysosomes.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Function
Important Characteristics of each.
Plant/Animal cell or both
Relationship between the two organelles.
Use the electron microscope pictures to identify the organelles in your
pictures, label them.
6. Color the vacuole- light blue colored pencil and the lysosomes- purple
marker.
7. Have one person’s notes and picture checked.
Structural
Use pages 73 and 79 to complete the following for cell walls and cytoskeleton.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Function
Important characteristics of each.
Plant/Animal or both
How do the two organelles work together?
Use the electron microscope pictures to identify the organelles in your
pictures, label them.
6. Color the cell wall with green marker and the cytoskeleton is only pictured in
the animal cell with pink marker.
7. Have your notes and pictures checked by the teacher.
Others
Use pages 72, 75, 78 and the attached pages to complete the following for
cytoplasm, centrioles (centrosomes), cilia and flagella.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Functions
Important characteristics of each.
Plant/Animal or both
Use the electron microscope pictures to identify the organelles in your
pictures, label them.
5. Color the cytoplasm white, centrioles with orange marker and the cilia with
blue marker.
6. Have your notes and pictures checked by the teacher.