Cell Organelle Assignment
After seeing the slide show on the various diseases and disorders that can occur in humans due to malfunctioning
organelles, it is now time to find out a little more detail. This assignment is a chance to introduce the various
organelles that exist inside a cell while at the same time allowing for the creation of some connections between the
organelles with the disorders that you saw. This is a one period assignment.
Details:
 You will need to research the organelle and the disease using the prompts provided for you and a computer.
 You will hand in this paper for a grade.
My/Our organelle is ______________________ and the disease is __________________________________.
Part 1: The Organelle
1. What is an organelle?
2.
What is/are the function(s) of the organelle that I am researching?
3. What does this organelle look like (draw in the box to the right)
Part 2: The Disease
1. What are the symptoms of the disease?
2.
Organelle: ________________________
How does your organelle relate to the disease?
3. How does the function of the organelle relate to the symptoms of the disease? (Because the organelle can’t … it
causes the cell to … which causes the symptom…)
4.
Are there any treatments or cures for the disease? If so, how does the treatment/cure work?
Alzheimer’s disease and the golgi apparatus
Meckel- Gruber syndrome and centrioles
Hailey Hailey disease and golgi
Diamond- blackfan Anemia and ribosomes
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome and ribosomes
Cistic fibrosis and the ER/ cell membrane
ER stress
Hyaline membrane disease and the cell membrane
Fabry Disease, Tay Sachs, Gouchers , Pompe and lysosomes
Barth Disease and the mitochondria
Luft disease and the mitochondria
Sickle cell anemia and the cytoskeleton
Duchenne MD and cytoskeleton
Nuclear envelope- Emery-Dryfuss, MD, Progeria
Nucleolus- Treacher Collins syndrome, Survival Motor neuron spinal muscular atrophy