QUESTION ONE
Come up with an analogy of an animal cell.

You may choose the following methods to present your analogy.
1. A picture with explanation of the different parts
2. Description of the analogy.

In your analogy, you must include the following eight organellesNucleus, Nucleolus, Ribosomes, Rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi Apparatus, Lysosomes, Plasma membrane and Mitochondria


Spaghetti analogy of animal cell

ate of nice smelling spaghetti (proteins) comes out fresh from the kitchen! The chef (ribosomes) looks at it with a satisfying smile, another piece of successful work! His work everyday is to cook in this kitchen, producing plates of spaghetti for the customers (lysosomes), who always seem to be able to gobble up the plate of spaghetti within seconds. To be put in other words, they can actually be described as chomping machines that can make these spaghetti (proteins) disappear!

Thanks to the efficient waiters (Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum) who delivers the orders around the restaurant, the flow of customers is steady, and the restaurant gets very popular due to the delicious spaghetti and also the working pace. Of course, the success of this restaurant is mainly due to the amazing recipe (nucleus), and it seems like the entire business of the restaurant revolves around it, in other words, we can say this recipe is the center and the most important part of the restaurant, it just feels as if it controls the restaurant.

The man behind this amazing recipe (nucleus) is our boss and employer (nucleolus), he is the man who trains us, the chefs (ribosomes), to learn about the art of cooking. In other words, he is like our producer that can make us perfect for this important job!
Besides, he is also the person who invented the method of baking the spaghetti for a short while before serving! Therefore, the oven (mitochondria) seems to power up our spaghetti and bring it on to a higher level of delicious taste! Yum!

Nowadays, we are receiving so much orders such that we even do delivery jobs! We have recently hired some young men to do delivery jobs. These Delivery boys (Golgi apparatus) work well, and they wait at the counter for the order, packs the spaghetti up and sets off, leaving the restaurant door (Plasma membrane) for the delivery job.

Having such an efficient restaurant, don’t you think its time to try our secret recipe spaghetti too? ;]




Nucleus--Recipe
Necleolus--Boss/Employer
Mitochondria--Oven
Golgi Apparatus--Delivery man
Rough ER--Waiter
Ribosomes--Chef
Lysosomes--customers
Proteins--Pizza
Plasma membrane--restaurant door