Organelles Flashcards
Nucleus
Contains chromatin
cell control center
surrounded by double layer of membrane
Transport Vesicle
Carries secretions for export from cell
Buds off Golgi body
How proteins and other substances get from ER to Golgi body
Central Vacuole
Stores water, needed chemicals, wastes, pigments in plant cell
Smooth ER
Manufactures lipids
breaks down drugs and toxins in liver
stores calcium in muscle cells
drug tolerance results from enlarging this
Lysosomes
sac of digestive enzymes
Defective in Tay-Sachs disease
digests food, waste, foreign substances
fuses with food vacuole
Golgi Apparatus
ships products to plasma membrane outside or other organelles
takes in transport vesicles from ER and modifies their contents
marks and sorts molecules
buds from here become lysosomes
Rough ER
makes cell membranes
numerous ribosomes give it its name
where proteins are made and modified for secretion
Contractile Vacuole
pumps out excess water from some cells
Ribosomes
Makes proteins
non membranous organelle
Plasma Membrane
Boundary between cell and its surroundings
Phospholipid bilateral with proteins