Organelles

Function: Cell membranes serve as barriers and gatekeepers. They are semi-permeable

Ananlogy: The cell membrane is like a cheese cloth!

Function: The cytoplasm is responsible for holding the components of the cell and protects them from damage

Analogy: The cytoplasm is like armour!

Function: The cytoskeleton is a structure that helps cells maintain their shape and internal organization, and it also provides mechanical support that enables cells to carry out essential functions like division and movement.

Analogy: The cytoskeleton works like how our skin, muscle and bones help to keep us in human form!

Function: The cytosol has an important role in providing structural support for other organelles and in allowing transport of molecules across the cell.

Analogy: The cytosol is like the between spaces of a city, it has space for things to move as well as places for buildings to go.

Function: protein synthesis and processing, lipid synthesis, and calcium (Ca2+) storage and release

Ananlogy: the ER is kinda like how conveyor belt workers make and process goods.

Function: helps process and package proteins and lipid molecules, especially proteins destined to be exported from the cell

Analogy: Golgi bodies are like amazon workers!

Function: Lysosomes function as the digestive system of the cell, serving both to degrade material taken up from outside the cell and to digest obsolete components of the cell itself.

Analogy: Lysosomes are like my stomache!

Function: Centrioles are primarily involved in forming two structures-centrosomes and cilia. Centrioles bias the position of spindle pole formation, but because spindle poles can self-organize, the function of the centriole in mitosis is not obligatory.

Analogy: centrioles are like legos, they are building blocks!

Function: their function is really to handle waste products, and by handle, mean take in waste products and also get rid of waste products.

Analogy: vacuoles are kinda like the dump!

Function: The function of cilia is to move water relative to the cell in a regular movement of the cilia. This process can either result in the cell moving through the water, typical for many single-celled organisms, or in moving water and its contents across the surface of the cell.

Analogy: The cilia is kinda like a human either scuba diving or snorkaling!

Function: Peroxisomes are organelles that sequester diverse oxidative reactions and play important roles in metabolism, reactive oxygen species detoxification, and signaling.

Analogy: the peroxisome is kinda like how the human body filters things and metabloizes energy.

Function: Flagellum is primarily a motility organelle that enables movement and chemotaxis.

Analogy: since the flagella allows for movement it is kinda like wheels!

Function: They increase the surface area for absorption of the digested food. Each villus has a network of thin and small blood vessels close to its surface. The surface of the villi absorbs the digested food materials.

Analogy: The villi is like a carpet!