Plant and Animal Cells
Life’s Little Factories
Organelles
Vacuole
Golgi
apparatus
Sketch
Description
It is the cells storage area, it stores food,
waste, nutrients. It is in both animal and
plant cells. There is one big one in plant
cells and many small in animal cells.
Takes the finished proteins and packages
them and then ships them out of the cell
or around the inside of the cell.
How it relates to a
factory
Storage Area
Packaging and
Shipping Department
Breaks down and digests waste.
Lysosome
Custodian
It provides energy to cells
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts
Cell Wall
Power plant
It provides energy for plant cells, it is
where photosynthesis occurs.
A rigid outer layer that supports the plant
cell.
Solar Panel
Wall
The control centre of the cell.
Nucleus
Cell
membrane
Ribosomes
Endoplasmic
reticulum
Cytoplasm
The Boss
It is one of the outer layers of a cell and
holds it together. It controls what goes in
and out of the cell.
They are the works of the cells, the
produce proteins. They work alongside
the ER
Transportation system, that moves
protein along while ribosomes work on
them.
Fills and holds the organelles, stuff move
around inside it.
Security Guard
The Robot Workers
Conveyor Belt
Air
Learning about the Parts of a Cell
 Research and fill in the table “Plant and Animal Cells: Life’s Little Factories”
o Sketch each organelle so you can recognize it in a diagram
o Describe each organelle so you know what it does
o Make a connection between the organelle and something found in a factory
 Sketch and label an Animal Cell
 Sketch and label a Plant Cell
 Study and prepare for a quiz on the Parts of a Cell
Sources of Information:
Online:
Simply search for “cell organelles” you will find thousands of websites
Interactive Websites:
http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/education/biology/microscope/index.html
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/lmexer1a.htm#plant
A number of books and textbooks are also available.
Cells: Quiz Preparation
For the quiz you must know all the organelles found in both plant and animal cells. For
each organelle you must be able to explain it’s function. You must also be able to sketch
both a plant and animal cell, as well as, label all of it’s organelles.
The following are practice questions similar to those on the quiz.
1. What are organelles? How do they relate to organs in our body?
2. What are the functions of the nucleus and the cytoplasm of the cell?
3. List three ways in which plant cells differ from animal cells.
4. What is the function of the chloroplasts? Why are chloroplasts not found in animal
cells?
5. Predict what might happen to a cell if the cell membrane were replaced by a plastic
coating that allows nothing to get through.
6. What are organelles?
7. Predict what would happen to a cell if its mitochondria stopped working.
8. Why are cells compared to factories?
9. Muscle cells need large amounts of energy. While red blood cells need to carry large
amounts of oxygen. Explain what differences you think there will be between muscle
and red blood cells.
Cells Quiz: