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3.5 Guided Reading

Organelles

As you carefully read through the text, answer the following questions as completely as possible!

Introduction

1. Do brain cells have the same internal structures are your other cells? Explain.

Organelles

2. Why can it be said that eukaryotic cells are like factories?

3. What are organelles? What types of cells are they found in?

4. What is a nucleus? Describe its function.

5. What are mitochondria? Describe their function.

6. What are vesicles? Describe their function.

7. What are lysosomes? Describe their function.

8. What are ribosomes? Describe their function.

9. What is the endoplasmic reticulum? Describe its function.

10. What is the Golgi apparatus? Describe its function.

11. What is the cytoskeleton? Describe its function.

Review

12. Summarize the points listed.