CELL STRUCTURE

& FUNCTION

GENERAL BIOLOGY I
Anja Frances Lavega-Masiong
 together, they can form a
house.

This hollow block represents the

cell.

When hollow blocks are put

 Like the
hollow
blocks, if cells
are put
together,
they can
form an
organism.
 CELL THEORY

•All organisms are composed of one or more

cells.
•The cell is the structural unit of life.
•Cells can arise only by division from a
preexisting cell.
 PROKARYOTIC
CELL
S

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 Endosymbiotic Theory
• It states that the main organelles of the eukaryotic cells were
actually primitive prokaryotic cells that had been engulfed
by a different, bigger prokaryotic cell.

• It explains the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts, which

are organelles of eukaryotic cells. According to this theory,
these originated as prokaryotic endosymbionts, which came
to live inside eukaryotic cells. The theory postulates that the
mitochondria evolved from aerobic bacteria, and that the
chloroplast evolved from endosymbiotic cyanobacteria
(autotrophic prokaryotes).

Endosymbiotic
Theory
PARTS OF A TYPICAL CELL

What is the cell’s gate?

Plasma membrane
What is the cell’s swimming pool?
Cytoplasm and
Cytosol
What is the cell’s CPU?
Nucleus
Nucleus
Chromosome
What are the cell’s factories?
Ribosome
 Smooth and Rough
Endoplasmic
Reticulum
What is the cell’s shipping and receiving
center?
Golgi Apparatus
 s

Endomembrane system
It shows how
the
 membrane
bound
organelles like
the
endoplasmic
reticulum and
the golgi
apparatus
work together
in the
production of
materials
within the cell.
What is the cell’s trash bin?

Lysosome
What is the cell’s refrigerator?
Central Vacuole
What is the cell’s generator?
Mitochondrion
What is the cell’s paint?
Plastid

Chloroplast
What is the cell’s scaffolding?
Cytoskeleton
Cytoskeleton
Cytoskeleton
Centrosome
What are the cell’s tail and hair?
Flagella and Cilia
What is the cell’s wall?
Cell Wall
THE END!