ORGANELLES

PEROXISOME

• Detoxifies drugs
• Breaks down fatty acids

LYSOSOME

• Suicide sac
• Intracellular digestion

NUCLEUS

• Brain of the cell
• Storage of genetic information

CELL MEMBRANE

• Maintains the integrity of the cell
• Cell border

MITOCHONDRIA

• Produce energy
• Cellular respiration

GOLGI APPARATUS

• Packages protein
• Distributes molecules

SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM

• Makes lipids
• Steroid synthesis

ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RERICULUM

• Makes protein
• Found in cytoplasm

RIBOSOME

• Makes proteins
• Free in cytoplasm or in groups

VACUOLE

• Transports water
• Within plant cells there is one central vacuole

VESICLE

• Transports anything but water
• Storage and transports substance into/out of cell

MICROTUBULE

• Backbone of flagella
• Adjacent to the nucleus

MICROFILAMENTS

• Part of cytoskeleton
• Helps structure of cell

NUCLEAR MEMBRANE

• Maintains the integrity of the cell
• Made of two lipid bilayers

CHROMATIN

• Contains DNA
• Also contains RNA and protein

CENTRIOLE

• Forms spindles
• 95% of the time does nothing

FLAGELLA

• Propels sperm
• Movement by cell

CILIA

• Sweeps mucus
• Movement of substance inside a tube

NUCLEOLUS

• Makes ribosomes
• Contains ribosomal information