Cell structure
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A protein leaves
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Practice: build a cell
which cell
Animal cell
Plant cell
Bacterium — a prokaryote
Virus — not a cell
name the parts
Find a part
Click any part of the cell to see what it is and what it does.
Build an animal cell
Build a plant cell
build the cell to do this job
zoom — one box across is
100 µm
Drag a part into the cell
Drag each structure onto the decade of the ruler it belongs in
Run the cell
Check the ruler
Find a part
Start again
Drag a part into the cell, or tap a part and then tap where it goes.
light microscope view
include a virus, at its real size
block one organelle
nothing is blocked
the nuclear pores
the rough endoplasmic reticulum
transport vesicles
the Golgi apparatus
exocytosis at the membrane
draw all three to the same scale
the whole cell, every part named
How to think about it
Common mistakes