What I have learned:
I learned alot about mitosis and meiosis. I had no idea that cells went through that much. Mitosis consistes of four main stages. Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase/cytokenesis. Mitosis describes the process in which the cell must duplicate and divide its cells in order to repair and replace other cells. While meiosis is the process for sex cells. At the end of the process they form 4 cells, a tetrad. Meiosis basically goes through PMAT twice, in order to form 23 chromosomes.
What I have found difficult:
I have a hard time remembering the shapes of different organisms within cells and that makes it really hard for me to label stuff. I can remember some things based on their color, like chloroplaste is green, but I cannot remember shapes.
How is structure related to function?
Cells are all very similar, therefore the shape of a cell can make all the difference. Cells go through various stages in order to obtain the shape that they do. Sometimes when a cell does not form properly they are like mutated cells and can be very dangerous for the organism. Cancer is spread due to a cell that did not form correctly, therefore the structure of a cell is essential to the proper and intended function.
When you say organisms I think you mean organelles. I think I can help with that. For instance, the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) can be found most times wrapped around the nucleus of the cell. The Golgi Apparatus, the way I remember it, looks similar to the ER but its just a bit smaller. Lysosomes are kind of small and they hold digestive enzymes and finding them among other organelles in an animal cell can be tricky. I often confuse lysosomes with mitochondria. However, in plant cells lysosomes are the biggest organelle in the cell and they occupy a lot of space. I hope this helps Kinsey!
ReplyDeleteDalton's comment is probably extremely helpful to you! What I do, sometimes, because the names of the organelles confuses me, is create situations that relate to what you do daily. So, for example, you live in your room(Nucleolous), and you need to leave the house(nucleus), so you have to take the highway to school(the Rough ER-because it helps transport material(you!) Your car would be the vesicle because it takes you from the highway to the school(golgi apparatus). School modifies us(because we learn). The bathroom would be the lysosome. And the smooth ER would be Nurse's office because the smooth ER detoxifies chemicals in our body. I know it's crazy, but it helps me! Let me know if you just got extremely confused...
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