Organelle Functions

Honors Biology 12/02/2022

What is the function of the plasma membrane/ cell membrane?

Controls the passage of materials into and out of the cell

What is the function of the golgi apparatus?

To process, package, and secrete chemicals for export by the cell.

What does the mitochondria do?

the power house of the cell
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The site of a set of chemical reactions that transfer energy from organic molecules (food) to the energy-carrying molecule of the cell. ATP.

What is the cell wall?

A rigid, porous structure found in plant cells, it is made of chains of the complex carbohydrate cellulose

What does the nuclear envelope do?

Controls what enters and leaves the nucleus

Material found within the nucleus, it is made of both DNA and protein and it is known by two names depending on how tightly coiled the material is. What are the names?

Chromosomes or chromatin

What is the function of the endoplasmic reticulum

protein synthesis and act as the cell's internal highway by moving molecules along

What part of the cell is the "brain" or control center of the cell because it stores all the genetic instructions?

Nucleus

What is cytoplasm?

The gel-like fluid that fills the inner space between the organelles.

What does a vacuole do?

Stores food, water, waste, and sometimes enzymes.

Where are ribosomes built?

nucleolus

what are lysosomes?

digestive enzymes that digest macromolecules within the cell and may also ingest viral invaders and bacteria.

what do ribosomes do?

make proteins

What is a chloroplast?

container of chlorophyll where sugars are produced during photosynthesis