What is a Golgi body? Parts of a cell – Biology
Image of a Golgi body. Taken with an electron microscope at the University of Melbourne, Australia How does a cell make Golgi bodies? First the RNA of a eukaryote cell [...]
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How do cells get rid of cell waste?
Cell waste: A cell with a vacuole Cell waste and vacuoles Soon after eukaryote cells began to make vacuoles to help them catch their food and store it, about 600 [...]
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What are eukaryotes? Cell biology
Eukaryotes (seen through a microscope) are full of chloroplasts When did eukaryotes evolve? Around two billion years ago, when all cells still lived in the ocean, a few of the [...]
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What is an enzyme? Cell biology
A model of an enzyme reacting with another molecule and breaking it into two pieces. Each little ball represents an atom.This enzyme, lysozyme, breaks up bacteria in your blood to keep [...]
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What is the endoplasmic reticulum? Parts of a cell
Endoplasmic reticulum inside a cell What's it made of? The endoplasmic reticulum is made out of a lipid membrane, just like the cell membrane around the outside of a cell, [...]
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Vacuoles – Soap bubble project – Cell biology
A child blows soap bubbles You can see how the lipid membranes around the cell and around the vacuoles seal themselves off using soap bubbles. Soap bubbles are a kind [...]
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Mitochondria Exercise Project – Science Activities – Biology
A man who has ALS If your mitochondria are not working right, or you have too few mitochondria, you can easily see the results. Your body won't work right, especially [...]
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Golgi body game – Directing molecules – Parts of a cell activities
Taken with an electron microscope at the University of Melbourne, Australia Here's an active game where you can act out what a Golgi body does. Form into groups of eight, [...]
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Eukaryotes project – Eukaryotes and Microscopes – Biology Activities
Human cheek cells (seen through a microscope at 400X) The best way to understand cells better is to look at some through a microscope. If you don't have a microscope [...]
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DNA Project – Science Activities – Biology
Building a model of DNA: a DNA project DNA active learning project To see how DNA unzips and zips up again, get a bunch of kids together, and two pieces [...]
