Wednesday 13 February 2013

Cell organelles and their function

Looking at the dot point you can see that the list of organelles that yoou are expected to see under a light microscope and electron micrograph is fairly comprehensive.  It includes:

mitochondria, chloroplasts, vacuoles, Golgi bodies, cell wall, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, nucleus, nucleolus and cell membranes.




Under a light microscope you can expect to see the in an animal cell; the cell membrane, the nucleus and the cytoplasm.



Under a light microscope you can expect to see the following for a plant cell; the cell membrane, the nucleus, cell wall, chloroplasts, vacuole and the cytoplasm. I should point out that you are unlikely to see them all in a single specimen, but you should be able to see some of these on any given slide.



In an electron microscope image the following are generally visible in animal cells; mitochondria, Golgi bodies,  lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes, nucleus, nucleolus and cell membranes.  Not all are visible in this image however.



An electron micrograph of a plant cell will contain the same as an animal cell but will also have in addition the chloroplasts, vacuole and cell wall.  Interestingly animal cells have vacuoles but they are very small and not visible on any image you will see.  Therefore we consider vacuoles absent from animal cells




As for the functions of these cell organelles, I am leaving it up to you to figure out what they are.




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