Comparing a Cell to a Factory
INTRODUCTION
Fill in the chart below while reading information at the Cells: A Busy Factory
site, which you get to from The Cell as a System student sheet.
In the second column of the chart, write the name of the organelle that
functions most like the factory worker described in the first column. In the
third column, write a brief description of the function of the organelle in the
cell.
Cell Organelle
Job in the Factory
Shipping/Receiving
Department
Cell Membrane
Function of the
organelle
Chief Executive Officer Nucleus
(CEO)
Factory floor
Cytoplasm
Assembly line (where
workers do their work)
Endoplasm
Workers in the
assembly line
Ribosomes
Finishing/packaging
department
Maintenance crew
Support beams (walls,
ceilings, floors)
Power plant