What are you made of that makes you

alive?

Cells
 Cells:
The Basic Units of Life
What is a cell?
definition: a small
compartment that holds all
of the biological equipment
necessary to keep an
organism alive
About cells…
Their main purpose is to organize.

They make up all living things.

Cells are alive!

 Plant Cell
What are the parts?
chloroplast vacuole cell
cytoplasm wall
smooth
endoplasmic
reticulum

ribosomes
rough
endoplasmic
mitochondrion reticulum

Golgi nucleus
apparatus
 Animal Cell
nucleus What are the parts?
Golgi
vacuole
apparatus
cell
membrane
mitochondrion

ribosomes

cytoplasm
flagella

rough endoplasmic reticulum

smooth endoplasmic reticulum
 Cell Membrane
• Outer layer of cell
• Allows nutrients
into the cell and
wastes outside of
the cell

“Gate into the

city” Cell Membrane
 Cytoplasm

• Cytoplasm a
jelly-like fluid
contained in
the cell that
holds the
organelles.
 Organelles

Organelles are structures that enable

the cell to live, grow and reproduce.
 The Nucleus
DNA • The control
center of the
cell
• Contains the
Cell’s DNA
Nucleolus

Nuclear Membrane
“Mayor’s office”
 Mitochondria
Outer Membrane

• Power center of
cell
• Provides the
energy the cell
needs to move,
divide, etc.
Inner Membrane

“Electric company of
the cell”
 Ribosomes

• Site where
proteins are
made
• Cell parts are
made of
proteins “Factories of the
cell”
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Endoplasmic Reticulum

• Transportation
system of cell
• Rough ER-
ribosome's
attached
• Smooth ER- no
Ribosomes ribosome's

“Roadways of the cell”

Golgi Complex
• Packaging house of
cell
• Packages,
processes, and
ships out the
stuff the cell
makes
 Lysosomes
• Digests food
particles and cell
parts
– “Garbage men”
• Protects cell by
digesting foreign
invaders
– “Police men
 Vacuole
• Stores water,
Vacuole
food & wastes

Vacuole is largest
organelle in plant cell
Cell Wall

• Found only in
plant cells

• Protects and
supports the cell
 Chloroplasts
• Found only in plant
cells
• Contains
chlorophyll (makes
plants green)
• Where
photosynthesis
takes place